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South African authorities have arrested and will expel seven Kenyans accused of working without the correct documentation on a US government programme to accept white Afrikaners as “refugees”, the home affairs department said Wednesday.US President Donald Trump’s administration in May offered refugee status to the minority white Afrikaner community, claiming they were victims of discrimination …

S.Africa to expel Kenyans working on US Afrikaner ‘refugee’ applicationsWed, 17 Dec 2025 08:50:15 GMT Read More »

Abdoul Aziz Balde sobbed as he spoke of his son Idrissa, who left Guinea in search of a better future, but has not been heard from since capsizing off the Moroccan coast.”I know that the boat my son was on sank, but we haven’t been shown his body, so to say that the boy is …

No news, no body: parents of Guinea’s missing migrants face tormentWed, 17 Dec 2025 06:14:38 GMT Read More »

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday sharply expanded a travel ban by barring people from seven more countries including Syria, as well as Palestinian Authority passport holders, from entering the United States.The latest move brings to nearly 40 the number of countries whose citizens face restrictions in coming to the United States solely by virtue …

Trump imposes full travel bans on seven more countries, PalestiniansWed, 17 Dec 2025 02:55:17 GMT Read More »

The M23 armed group said Tuesday it would withdraw from the key city of Uvira in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo at the request of Washington, which vowed “action” over the “clear violation” of a US-brokered peace accord.The Rwanda-backed militia seized the strategic city near the border with Burundi last Wednesday, days after the …

M23 militia says to pull out of key DR Congo city at US’s requestTue, 16 Dec 2025 23:07:30 GMT Read More »

Thousands of Afrikaners, descendants of the first European settlers in South Africa, celebrated on Tuesday the “Day of the Vow” — a founding myth with values shared by US President Donald Trump’s administration, which has offered the group protection.On a hill overlooking the capital Pretoria, an announcer boasted that some 37,000 Afrikaners had gathered at …

Afrikaners mark pilgrimage day, resonating with their US backersTue, 16 Dec 2025 17:47:23 GMT Read More »

Military rulers in west Africa’s Sahel region may well have celebrated had a recent coup attempt in Benin resulted in another anti-Western junta in their neighbourhood, analysts said.Not least because Benin lies on the coast and access to ports is crucial for landlocked Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger — whose rulers formed the Alliance of …

Sahel juntas would have welcomed a coup in Benin: analystsTue, 16 Dec 2025 13:41:05 GMT Read More »

Benin jailed on Tuesday around 30 people, most of them soldiers, accused of links to a thwarted coup attempt this month, legal sources told AFP, while several mutineers are still on the run.Soldiers appeared on national television on December 7 to announce President Patrice Talon had been deposed but the attempted putsch was swiftly defeated by …

Benin jails around 30 people, mostly soldiers, over foiled coup attemptTue, 16 Dec 2025 13:24:36 GMT Read More »

A suicide bomber struck a military position in northeastern Nigeria near the border with Cameroon, killing at least five soldiers, security and local defence sources said.The attacker targeted a military position in Firgi near the town of Pulka in Borno state on Sunday, sources told AFP on Monday night and Tuesday morning.Militants have intensified raids …

Suicide bomber kills five soldiers in northeast Nigeria: sourcesTue, 16 Dec 2025 11:01:30 GMT Read More »

A former adviser to Djibouti President Ismail Omar Guelleh said Tuesday he will run against him in April elections, denouncing “democratic backsliding” in the small but highly strategic Horn of Africa nation.Djibouti has been ruled with an iron fist since 1999 by 77-year-old Guelleh, known as “IOG”, with the removal of a constitutional age limit …

Former adviser to stand against Djibouti’s strongman leaderTue, 16 Dec 2025 08:15:52 GMT Read More »

Maasai women erupted with mocking heckles as a community elder, wrapped in a traditional red blanket, claimed that female genital mutilation had all but stopped in their community in southern Kenya.The women know that mutilating young girls by removing their clitoris and inner labia — framed as a rite of passage — is still an …

Kenyan girls still afflicted by genital mutilation years after banTue, 16 Dec 2025 08:05:32 GMT Read More »