Weather tracker: early heatwave sweeps northern India
Temperatures exceeding 40C trigger deadly thunderstorms, as Mali agency issues hot weather warning Northern India has been experiencing early extreme heat this week as temperatures...
Category : Africa
Coup leader favourite in presidential race as Gabon goes to the polls
Self-styled anti-corruption crusader Brice Nguema helped overthrow Bongo family dynasty in August 2023 An estimated 1 million Gabonese citizens head to the polls on Saturday...
Zimbabwe starts compensating white farmers 25 years after land seizures
Step is requirement for restructuring country’s debt, including new IMF programme Zimbabwe has started to make compensation payments to former white farm owners, 25 years...
Bobi Wine to run for president in Uganda’s 2026 election ‘if I am still alive and not in jail’
Exclusive: Opposition leader says he has ‘no choice’ but to challenge Yoweri Museveni’s regime, despite threats and previous attacks The musician turned opposition leader Bobi...
UK to co-host global conference with aim of resolving Sudan’s civil war
Foreign ministers will gather in London and seek to exert diplomatic pressure demanding a ceasefire The British government is bringing together foreign ministers from nearly...
Revealed: Big tech’s new datacentres will take water from the world’s driest areas
Amazon, Google and Microsoft are building datacentres in water-scarce parts of five continents Amazon, Microsoft and Google are operating datacentres that use vast amounts of...
‘Only job I know’: tiny Lesotho’s garment workers reel from Trump’s 50% tariffs
Impoverished African country is hit with highest tariff rate, overturning decades of global trade policy The day after Donald Trump announced sweeping global tariffs, Lesotho’s...
Amadou Bagayoko of music duo Amadou & Mariam dies aged 70
Malian singer and guitarist, who sold millions of albums with his wife, Mariam Doumbia, had been ill for a while, say family The guitarist and...
‘Shame’ on world leaders for neglect of displaced civilians in DRC, says aid chief
US and Europe criticised by head of Norwegian Refugee Council for ‘neglect’ of people living ‘subhuman’ existence World leaders should be ashamed of their neglect...
Trump administration revokes all South Sudanese visas in repatriation row
State department accuses east African country of ‘taking advantage of the United States’ The US is revoking the visas of all South Sudanese passport-holders and...
