The grandson of a Tanzanian chief whose skull, now lost, was sent to Germany after he was executed in 1900 has taken a DNA test to help find it. Mangi Meli was hanged for his role in a rebellion against German colonialists and his body was then decapitated. The skull could be one of thousands […]
At least one peacekeeper killed and dozen others wounded in twin suicide attack in Timbuktu, UN mission says. At least one UN peacekeeper has been killed and a dozen others wounded in a twin suicide attack on a base in the northern Malian town of Timbuktu, the UN mission said. Fighters also fired dozens of […]
Rights group says cases of child labour, worker exploitation and low pay are rife in Zimbabwe’s tobacco farms. Malpractice in Zimbabwe’s tobacco growing industry is rampant, an international human rights organisation has reported after an investigation. In a report launched in the Zimbabwean capital, Harare, on Thursday, Human Rights Watch said cases of child labour, […]
Sierra Leone People’s Party says Julius Maada Bio won the elections, according to its own tallying of results. Sierra Leone’s opposition party says its candidate won the country’s presidential election runoff, according to its own tally of the results. Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) said opposition leader Julius Maada Bio took 54.11 percent of the […]
Somalia’s capital city – where there are frequent and deadly bomb blasts – only has one free ambulance service, which was founded by Abdulkadir Abdirahman Adan 13 years ago. When he returned from Pakistan, where he had been studying dentistry, to Mogadishu as a fresh graduate he was struck by the lack of ambulances on […]
DAKAR, Senegal — Some of the young women are thriving at a new school. Some have returned home to their family farms. But the fates of more than 100 other students who were kidnapped from a school in northeastern Nigeria are unknown, five years after militants from Boko Haram abducted them. On Sunday, the fifth […]
ADDIS ABABA (REUTERS) – Ivanka Trump began a four-day tour of Africa on Sunday (April 14) to promote a US$50 million (S$68 million) United States initiative aimed at encouraging women’s employment in developing countries. “Fundamentally we believe that investing in women is a smart development policy and it is a smart business,” White House adviser […]
Weeks of protests in Algeria have pushed long-time leader Abdelaziz Bouteflika to drop his plans of running for a fifth term as president. However, he remains in office and protests have continued, with calls for him to resign immediately. The BBC’s Ahmed Rouaba looks at what might happens next in the country. The significance of […]
The United Nations-backed government of Libya sought on Saturday to reassure its Western supporters by distancing itself from terrorists and extremists. Some fighters with extremist ties or who have been targeted by United Nations sanctions have said this week that they were joining the Libyan government’s fight against an attack by a militia leader. The […]
The head of Sudan’s military council has stood down a day after leading a coup that toppled long-time leader Omar al-Bashir amid a wave of protests. Defence Minister Awad Ibn Auf announced his decision on state TV. He named as his successor Lt Gen Abdel Fattah Abdelrahman Burhan. It comes after protesters refused to leave […]