Countries

‘Too many racial laws’: Pro-Trump demonstrators decry land reforms, farm murders

Pretoria – About a thousand people gathered outside the US embassy in Pretoria on Saturday to show their support... Read more

16 Feb

World

37 dead in sectarian fighting in northwestern Pakistan

Peshawar — The death toll from ongoing sectarian clashes in northwest Pakistan has risen to at least 37, with... Read more

27 Sep, 2024

Countries

Investigations under way after bomb kills 27 herders, several cattle in central Nigeria

Kano – A group of 27 herders were killed on Wednesday and several others injured in what police called... Read more

26 Jan, 2023

Countries

DRC Tutsis face threats, prejudice amid rebel crisis

Goma – Sitting in a small courtyard in Goma, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a 55-year-old Tutsi woman... Read more

12 Dec, 2022

Countries

Ethiopia to hold vote for a new regional state

Addis Ababa – Ethiopia will stage a referendum next February in several areas of the country’s south to consider... Read more

13 Oct, 2022

Countries

Six killed in bus attack in Cameroon

Yaoundé – Six people were killed in an attack on a bus in the troubled western region of Cameroon,... Read more

8 Sep, 2022

Burkina Faso

Burkina imams warn of ‘religious and ethnic intolerance’

Ouagadougou – Hundreds of imams and preachers on Monday condemned religious and ethnic intolerance in insurgency-hit Burkina Faso after calls... Read more

30 Aug, 2022

World

Mexican schoolboy set on fire for being Indigenous

Mexico City – A Mexican schoolboy was set on fire and badly burned in a classroom – his “only... Read more

13 Jul, 2022

Countries

Release ‘illegally’ detained Tigrayans, Ethiopia rights group says

Addis Ababa – The Ethiopian Human Rights Commission called on Wednesday for the immediate release of more than 8... Read more

1 Jul, 2022

Countries

Sudan band’s music empowers sidelined ethnic group

Khartoum – Noureddine Jaber, a musician with a unique part-guitar, part-tamboura instrument, is giving voice to Sudan’s long-marginalised eastern... Read more

5 Jun, 2022