Australian soldier charged with war crimes in Afghanistan
AFP, Sydney
8 April 2026, 00:21 AM Australia
MSF says 26 staff missing from South Sudan violence
AFP, Nairobi
3 March 2026, 01:25 AM Africa & rest of the world
At least 38 killed in armed attack in north-west Nigeria
AFP, Nigeria
21 February 2026, 19:36 PM Africa & rest of the world
Attackers kill at least 50 in Nigeria
Reuters, Maiduguri
21 February 2026, 04:12 AM World
RSF actions in Sudan’s al-Fashir points to genocide
AFP, Geneva
20 February 2026, 00:40 AM Africa & rest of the world
UN chief renews push for ‘immediate ceasefire’ in Sudan
AFP, Addis Ababa
16 February 2026, 02:54 AM Africa & rest of the world
21 drown in Nile boat sinking in Sudan
AFP, Khartoum
13 February 2026, 00:52 AM Africa & rest of the world
Sudan RSF drone strike on school kills two children
AFP, Khartoum
12 February 2026, 01:35 AM Africa & rest of the world

Risk of mass starvation rapidly rising in Africa, Yemen, UN warns

The risk of mass starvation in four countries -- northeast Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen - -is rapidly rising due to drought and conflict, the UN refugee agency says.
11 April 2017, 11:07 AM

ANC backs Zuma in reshuffle dispute

South Africa's embattled President Jacob Zuma yesterday won the backing of the ruling ANC party, which rejected calls
5 April 2017, 18:00 PM

S Africa's top trade union tells Zuma to go

South Africa's powerful trade union federation Cosatu, a key coalition partner of the ruling ANC, yesterday called for embattled President
4 April 2017, 18:00 PM

Boko Haram kidnap 22 girls, women in Nigeria

Boko Haram Islamists have abducted 22 girls and women in two separate raids in northeast Nigeria, residents and
1 April 2017, 18:00 PM

'Real' Syria peace talks yet to start

The UN has said "incremental" progress was made during a fifth round of talks between Syria's warring parties, but
1 April 2017, 18:00 PM

Anti-apartheid icon Kathrada dies

Celebrated South African anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Kathrada, a Robben Island prisoner and one of Nelson
28 March 2017, 18:00 PM

Kenyan forces kill 31 Shabaab militants in raid

Kenyan troops in Somalia killed 31 Islamist al Shabaab militants in a raid on two of their bases in the southern Somali
27 March 2017, 18:00 PM

46 killed in Nigeria in March ethnic clashes

At least 46 people were killed and almost 100 others wounded in clashes between rival ethnic groups in southwest Nigeria earlier this
23 March 2017, 18:00 PM

ICC jails ex-Congo VP for bribing witnesses

Judges yesterday sentenced former Congolese vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba to a year in jail and fined him 300,000
22 March 2017, 18:00 PM

Suicide blasts rock Nigeria migrant camp

At least four suicide bomb blasts rocked a camp for migrants fleeing Boko Haram insurgents in restive northeastern
22 March 2017, 18:00 PM

20 die in freak tree accident in Ghana

Twenty students died after trees fell on them while swimming in a river during a storm in Ghana, emergency officials
20 March 2017, 18:00 PM

Plane crash-lands in South Sudan

A passenger jet carrying 45 people crash-landed in South Sudan's northwestern city of Wau yesterday, leaving at
20 March 2017, 18:00 PM

110-minister govt!

Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo on Friday defended his controversial decision to appoint a 110-minister government, calling it a
18 March 2017, 18:00 PM

Namibia claims $30b

Namibia is to launch a 30-billion-dollar (28-billion-euro) lawsuit against Germany over genocide committed during colonial rule,
18 March 2017, 18:00 PM

Somali pirates release hijacked oil tanker

Somali pirates on Thursday handed over an oil tanker and eight Sri Lankan hostages captured just days ago, the Oceans Beyond Piracy
17 March 2017, 18:00 PM

Bus in Haiti flees accident, kills 38

A bus speeding away from a hit-and-run accident plowed into dozens of street musicians in northern Haiti on Sunday, killing 38 people,
13 March 2017, 18:00 PM

Car bomb kills 13 in Somali capital: report

A car bomb near a hotel on a busy street in the Somali capital killed at least 13 people yesterday, police and the emergency medical
13 March 2017, 18:00 PM

Which child to feed?

Somali mothers are facing an agonising choice over how to divide their shrinking food supply among hungry
8 March 2017, 18:00 PM

110 dead in last 48 hours: PM

Some 110 people have died in southern Somalia in the last two days from famine and diarrhoea resulting from a
5 March 2017, 18:00 PM

Mugabe turns 93

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe yesterday celebrated his 93rd birthday with a lavish party attended by thousands of loyalists
25 February 2017, 18:00 PM