Month: November 2025

Medical experts say Africa faces worst cholera outbreak in 25 years

Africa is experiencing its worst outbreak of cholera in the past 25 years, with Angola and Burundi seeing…

South Africa lets 153 Palestinians disembark following 12-hour plane ordeal

South Africa has allowed more than 150 Palestinian airline passengers to disembark, after they were kept on a…

Ivory Coast boosts border defence due to ‘unusual flow’ of Malian refugees

Ivory Coast has reinforced its border security after the arrival of “several unusual flows of refugees” from neighbouring…

Rights groups decry Tunisia’s ‘injustice’, crackdown on activists

International NGOs Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have decried a sharp decline in civil liberties and a…

G20 innovation platform opens new opportunities

Johannesburg 13 November 2025 When a young coder in Mthatha can work on the same project as a climate…

Maxwell Gomera: It is time to give Africans a stake in African growth

When e-commerce company Jumia wanted to go public in 2019, Africa’s most celebrated start-up didn’t list in Lagos, Nairobi,…

Former British soldier contests extradition over alleged Kenya murder

A former British soldier wanted by Kenyan authorities has appeared in a London court after being arrested in…

Audio: The Take: Why al-Qaeda’s Sahel branch is blocking fuel to Mali

A long siege by al-Qaeda-linked fighters has left Bamako low on fuel, food and power. Life has stalled,…

Tanzania frees opposition leaders following deadly election protests

Police in Tanzania have released several senior opposition leaders detained following the deadly protests that followed last month’s disputed elections,…

Trump says US to boycott South Africa G20 summit over white ‘genocide’

President Donald Trump has said no United States officials will attend this year’s Group of 20 (G20) summit…

Ukraine says over 1,400 Africans recruited to fight for Russia in war

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha has said that more than 1,400 people from 36 African nations are known…

COP30 climate summit hears from countries suffering global warming harms

Leaders from countries suffering some of the most catastrophic effects of the global climate crisis, from hurricanes, floods…