Namibia, among several other international states, has formally intervened in the genocide case brought by South Africa (SA) against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague. They will now also have to battle the US and ... Read More
Burundi's former Prime Minister General Alain-Guillaume Bunyoni, serving a life sentence for conspiracy against the head of state, has been provisionally released for medical reasons, judicial sources and relatives confirmed. Bunyoni, hospitalised since October 2025 at Gitega regional hospital ... Read More
Former Republic of Congo soccer federation president Jean-Guy Blaise Mayolas has been convicted of embezzling $1.1m of International Federation of Association Football (Fifa) funds and sentenced to life in prison, though he remains on the loose, reports africanews. A ... Read More
Polling stations in the Republic of Congo closed yesterday following a day of voting in elections that are widely expected to extend incumbent President Denis Sassou Nguesso's decades-long rule. The 82-year-old faced off against a weak field of challengers ... Read More
Ghana intends to propose a UN resolution recognising transatlantic slavery as the ‘gravest crime in the history of humankind’ and calling for reparations, and expects broad support despite resistance in Europe, reports Polity. The West African nation, a prominent advocate ... Read More
Kenya’s Foreign Minister is visiting Russia this week under pressure back home to convince Moscow to stop recruiting Kenyans into its military, but Nairobi – like other governments in Africa – is unlikely to take too confrontational an approach, reports ... Read More
A former holding company of US-sanctioned Israeli billionaire Dan Gertler will pay €25.8m to settle a Dutch corruption probe over mining deals in the DRC, prosecutors have said, according to News24. In 2018, Dutch investigators had launched a probe ... Read More
As oil prices remain high amid the ongoing war in the Middle East, its impact is increasingly filtering down into the lives of people across Africa. According to africanews, oil prices shot past $100 per barrel this week as shipping ... Read More
Rwanda warned on Saturday that it will withdraw its troops involved in anti-jihadist operations in northern Mozambique if sufficient funding for the mission is not assured, reports africanews. It has had a force of around 1 000 soldiers and police ... Read More
South Africa’s (SA) push to diversify its trade and investment partners has increasingly turned toward the Middle East and tensions could test the country’s export desk, writes Nkateko Joseph Mabasa in a Mail & Guardian analysis. Yet, he says, as ... Read More
For three decades, Lesotho’s National Assembly has neglected an important duty required by the Constitution – to pass a law on ‘conflicts of interest’ by MPs and senators in relation to government contracts. Now, though, the country’s Constitutional Court has ... Read More
‘A third of Europe’s cocaine now transits through West Africa, and that share could rise to half by 2030.’ Lucia Bird Ruiz, director of Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime, on the organisation’s report that Balkan networks are turning ... Read More
‘Africa is our centre of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we are in the face of this earth.’ John Henrik Clarke, professor of African World History Read More
Omo-Kibish I (Omo I) from southern Ethiopia is the oldest anatomically modern Homo sapiens skeleton currently known (around 233 000-years-old) Read More
