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A cholera outbreak in Sudan’s war-ravaged capital has claimed 70 lives in two days, health officials said Thursday, as Khartoum faces a mounting health emergency after more than two years of brutal conflict.The health ministry for Khartoum state said it recorded 942 new infections and 25 deaths on Wednesday, following 1,177 cases and 45 deaths …

Cholera outbreak in Sudan capital kills 70 in two daysThu, 29 May 2025 09:19:48 GMT Read More »

A South African court on Thursday sentenced a woman to life in prison for kidnapping and selling her six-year-old daughter, in a case that horrified the country. Joshlin Smith went missing in February last year from her home in Saldanha Bay, a fishing town 135 kilometres (85 miles) north of Cape Town, and has never been …

S.African woman gets life term for selling 6-year-old daughterThu, 29 May 2025 09:03:51 GMT Read More »

A series of attacks in northern Mozambique this month point to a resurgence of violence by Islamic State-linked militants as energy giant TotalEnergies prepares to resume a major gas project, analysts say.The group terrorised northern Mozambique for years before brazenly vowing in 2020 to turn the northern gas-rich Cabo Delgado province into a caliphate. TotalEnergies paused …

Jihadist attacks hit Mozambique as Total readies to resume gas projectThu, 29 May 2025 08:03:43 GMT Read More »

When Assita Kanko was 10 years old, she pictured herself as president of her native Burkina Faso — with a mission to stamp out female genital mutilation, and further women’s rights.As it turned out, she sits as a Belgian lawmaker in the ranks of the hard-right in the European Parliament, and says that suits her …

From Burkina to Belgium, fighting women’s corner from benches of hard-rightThu, 29 May 2025 06:04:05 GMT Read More »

In a field of paprika plants in the heart of Zimbabwe, fourth-generation farmer Daniel Burger and relative newcomer Miriam Mupambawashe discuss the quality of the crop.Burger, 36, and Mupambawashe, 59, are neighbours and partners in efforts to revive the country’s once-flourishing agriculture sector cut down by a ruinous land reform drive in the 2000s.The reform …

Zimbabwe’s farmers push on as land grab compensation floundersThu, 29 May 2025 05:40:35 GMT Read More »

The race to become Africa’s next “super banker” ends on Thursday, with five candidates, including one woman, vying to succeed Nigeria’s Akinwumi Adesina as head of the African Development Bank in a contest that appears too close to call.In 2015 it took six rounds of voting to elect Adesina as president of the AfDB, which …

Africa elects its next ‘super banker’Thu, 29 May 2025 02:58:43 GMT Read More »

During his imprisonment, Kenyan author Ngugi wa Thiong’o decided he would never write in English again, a defiant move that helped put literature in African languages firmly on the map.Ngugi died at the age of 87 on Wednesday, his daughter announced on Facebook. “It is with a heavy heart that we announce the passing of our …

Kenya’s Ngugi wa Thiong’o, champion of African expressionWed, 28 May 2025 19:49:45 GMT Read More »

Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye on Wednesday formally opened a national dialogue aimed at steering the west African country through political reform and “consolidating democracy” after a series of violent crises.The move, which the head of state launched along with his prime minister, Ousmane Sonko, comes against a backdrop of tension between Faye’s administration and …

Senegal president opens dialogue on political reformWed, 28 May 2025 15:50:54 GMT Read More »

Leaders of ECOWAS on Wednesday celebrated 50 years since its formation, reflecting on regional security challenges and internal fractures as Africa as a whole also seeks answers in the face of US trade tariffs and aid cuts.The anniversary comes at one of the worst of moments in recent years for the Economic Community of West …

At 50, West African bloc teeters amid shifting alliances, security woesWed, 28 May 2025 15:46:32 GMT Read More »

President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah repeated calls Wednesday for Germany to pay reparations for its genocide against Namibian tribes as she led the first official commemoration of the atrocity more than 120 years ago.Thousands of indigenous Herero and Nama people were massacred by colonial-era German troops between 1904 and 1908 after they rebelled against their rule in …

Namibia urges reparations at first German genocide memorialWed, 28 May 2025 14:29:31 GMT Read More »