WEDNESDAY, 26 MARCH 2025, 03:19
International medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) on Thursday told the United Nations Security Council that the Sudanese people have been met with “indifference and inaction” amid nearly two years of war.
The Southern African grouping reiterated the need for a political and diplomatic solution to help restore ‘peace, security and tranquility’ in the conflict-torn country
The Global Solar Council estimated that the continent added 2 400 megawatts of solar generation capacity in 2024, slightly less than the year before, which it blamed on the slackening rate of installations in South Africa after a bumper year in 2023.
Despite previously refusing to engage in negotiations, Congolese officials have agreed to meet M23 rebels in Luanda to discuss an end to the deadly conflict.
The finance minister’s decision to push ahead with tax hikes puts him at odds with coalition partners.
Mine shafts snake under the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s mountains, but instead of the Congolese government their rich veins are making a mint for the Rwanda-backed M23.
South African Patrice Motsepe is re-elected unopposed as president of the Confederation of African Football with Cameroon legend Samuel Eto’o voted on to Caf’s executive committee.
Nigeria striker Victor Osimhen is “desperate” to qualify for the 2026 World Cup after a “heartbreaking” failure to reach the last finals in Qatar.
Endowed with minerals but losing ground to rebels, the Congolese government wants to boost security.
Angola said on Tuesday it would attempt to broker direct talks between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda-backed M23 rebels in the coming days.
An explosives-laden vehicle exploded before gunmen entered the hotel, witnesses say.
Uganda’s military chief said his country had deployed special forces in South Sudan’s capital Juba to “secure it” as tensions between President Salva Kiir and his First Vice President Riek Machar stoke fears of a return to civil war.
The soldiers will help South Sudan’s president “secure” the capital, Uganda’s Gen Kainerugaba says.
Fighters from a new jihadist group torched seven villages in northwest Nigeria over the weekend and killed 11 people in a revenge attack, a police spokesperson told AFP on Monday.
Juma Bah used to collect firewood for his father’s bakery in Sierra Leone, but the teenager is now on the books of Manchester City after a meteoric rise.
Athol Fugard, who has died aged 92, wrote more than 30 plays in a career that spanned seven decades.
Park authorities have been assisting ranger families, but the conflict and economic instability leaves them vulnerable
President Chapo has invited opposition leaders to enter a dialogue but has excluded opposition leader Mondlane, instead using violence against his supporters. Observers are doubtful about any real peacebuilding efforts.
Tensions between South Sudan’s rivals threaten a fragile peace deal that ended a five-year civil war.
The M23 rebel group has seized large parts of the mineral-rich eastern DR Congo this year.
The BBC took to the streets of Lesotho’s capital to get people’s reactions on Trump’s comments.