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...
Category : Global development
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...
Eritrean refugees say they are being arbitrarily detained in Ethiopian camps
Tigrinya speakers say they face beatings, detention and privation, and blame UN for ‘abandoning’ them, despite right to be in Ethiopia Eritrean refugees in Ethiopia...
Kenyan police officers found guilty of murder of three including human rights lawyer
Four found guilty by a Nairobi court six years after murders of Willie Kimani, Josephat Mwenda and Joseph Muiruri prompted protests in Kenya Three police...
Leading figures urge drugs firm to lower price of ‘game-changing’ HIV prevention drug
Signatories including Olly Alexander, Stephen Fry and Joseph Stiglitz issue a letter asking ViiV to make cabotegravir affordable to low- and middle-income countries Nobel laureates,...
Kigali summit to outline strategy for nature conservation in Africa
First continent-wide meeting aims to set out plans to halt and reverse habitat and species loss in protected areas on land and sea African leaders...
Gang warfare traps thousands in Haiti slum as fuel crisis add to desperation
Calls for aid to be let into Port-au-Prince district after ‘battlefield’ violence leaves dozens dead and cuts supplies of food and water Haiti’s capital has...
Country Queen: first Netflix series to be produced in Kenya hits the screen
Streaming company’s family drama marks shift from locally made ‘edutainment’ to shows that reflect complex realities of Kenyan life Kenya’s first homegrown Netflix series, the...
Sudan woman faces death by stoning for adultery in first case for a decade
Campaigners say sentence amounts to torture amid fears that country’s new regime is rolling back women’s rights A woman in Sudan has been sentenced to...
West must force private lenders to ease Africa’s crippling debt, say campaigners
Banks and traders have been ‘let off the hook’ by G7 despite being more to blame for the looming crisis than China Western governments should...
