Russia’s private military contractor Wagner comes out of the shadows in Ukraine war
Mercenary group does not officially exist but is playing a more public role and openly recruiting in Russia Russia-Ukraine war – latest updates Three billboards...
Category : Africa
London museum returns 72 Benin treasures to Nigeria
Horniman museum is first government-funded institution to hand back artefacts looted by British forces in 1897 A London museum is to return 72 treasured artefacts,...
Revealed: UK ran cold war dirty tricks campaign to smear Kenya’s first vice-president
Special unit spread fake news about leftist politician, Oginga Odinga, seen as threat to British interests in 1960s British cold war propagandists smeared Kenyan vice-president...
Uganda’s suspension of LGBT charity a ‘clear witch hunt’, say campaigners
Country’s government says Sexual Minorities Uganda ‘operating illegally’ in the east African nation The Ugandan government has suspended the country’s leading gay rights organisation, accusing...
‘It’s an illusion of choice’: why young Kenyans are boycotting the election
As presidential elections approach, engagement appears low among under-35s – but some see staying away from the polls as a form of protest A growing...
Death toll reaches 36 in eastern DRC as protesters turn on UN peacekeepers
With elections due next year, analysts fear political motives could be driving the rising violence and tensions in the region Fears of a new wave...
Al-Qaida chief’s killing comes as group gains ground in African conflict zones
UN says terror organisation, whose affiliate recently attacked Mali’s most important military base, ‘is once again the leader of global jihad’ It was one of...
South African police arrest more than 120 after gang-rape of eight women
Dozens of zama-zamas – illegal miners from other countries – now being held in crime crackdown following music video shoot attack Dozens of men detained...
At least 24 people dead as flash flooding hits eastern Uganda
More than 5,600 displaced and 400,000 left without clean water after heavy rain causes two rivers to burst banks At least 24 people have died...
Call for hippos to join list of world’s most endangered animals
New classification would mean a total ban on international trade in the animal’s body parts, as climate crisis and poaching hit populations Hippos could be...
