The US has suspended visas for domestic workers of Malawian diplomats after an official failed to pay damages to a woman she had trafficked into the country. In 2016, Fainess Lipenga was awarded $1.1m (£860,000) after a lawsuit against her employer at Malawi’s Washington embassy, Jane Kambalame. Ms Lipenga worked for less than 50 cents […]
JOHANNESBURG (AFP) – Cleaners found an abandoned foetus blocking the toilet of a plane in South Africa on Friday (June 21), the domestic FlySafair airline said, prompting the offloading of passengers and a police investigation. The foetus was discovered by cleaning staff as the plane was being prepared and passengers boarded for an early morning flight […]
Botswana has lifted a ban on elephant hunting, citing growing conflict between humans and the animals, which at times destroy crops. Critics of the ban, imposed in 2014, say the restriction was causing problems to small farmers and to those who previously benefited from hunting. Botswana has some 130,000 elephants, the world’s largest population. The […]
Kenya’s government has ordered a group of 76 refugees to return to a camp they had fled after some of them faced homophobic attacks, a UN agency says. Police with guns escorted the group on to buses on Wednesday night, photos sent to the BBC by the refugees show. The group had been living in […]
Today is World Refugee Day. Sadly it is marked by new figures which show the number of people all over the globe fleeing war, persecution and conflict exceeded 70 million at the end of last year, the highest level ever recorded by the UN Refugee Agency. This year the focus of World Refugee Day is […]
It was the second time this month that Dogon villages have come under attack by suspected ethnic Fulani gunmen. The attackers behind the latest attack to have hit central Mali identified victims one by one before executing then, survivors have said. Monday’s attack on the Gangafani and Yoro villages in the Mopti region was the last in […]
South Africa’s leading pro-euthanasia activist is to serve three years under house arrest after he was found guilty of premeditated murder for helping three people to kill themselves. Sean Davison was arrested in September last year in connection with the death of his friend in 2013, who had become a quadriplegic after a car accident. […]
Children were used as suicide bombers in a triple attack in Nigeria on Monday, Unicef has said. Two girls and a boy carried out the bombing outside a video hall in Konduga village in north-eastern Borno State, the UN children’s charity said. Their ages are not yet known. Officials say at least 30 people were […]
KANO, Nigeria — At least 30 people were killed in a triple suicide bombing in northeastern Nigeria, emergency services reported on Monday, in an attack bearing the hallmarks of the Boko Haram jihadist group. Three bombers detonated their explosives late Sunday outside a hall in the town of Konduga, where soccer fans were watching a […]
At least 30 people have been killed in a suicide attack in north-eastern Nigeria, while watching a televised football match, officials say. Another 40 have been injured in the triple suicide bombing, according to the State Emergency Management Agency. The bombers detonated their explosives outside a hall in Konduga village in Borno State. Militant Islamist […]