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Nov
15
2025
By STAFF REPORTER
Undocumented Palestinians spark fierce debate over South Africa’s border control and humanitarian obligations

Undocumented Palestinians spark fierce debate over South Africa’s border control and humanitarian obligations

NEWS
SOUTH Africa finds itself at the centre of a heated national debate after authorities allowed 130 Palestinians to enter the country despite arriving without proper documentation, exposing deep tensions between the nation's humanitarian commitments and growing concerns over immigration control. The controversy erupted on Thursday when 153 Palestinians landed at OR Tambo International Airport on a chartered Global Airways flight from Kenya, lacking departure stamps, return tickets, and accommodation details. While 23 travellers continued to other destinations, the remaining 130 were ultimately granted standard 90-day visitor visas after the humanitarian organisation Gift of the Givers offered accommodation and support. The…
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Nov
15
2025
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
Sudan crisis: nearly 100,000 displaced as violence escalates in Darfur

Sudan crisis: nearly 100,000 displaced as violence escalates in Darfur

NEWS
NEARLY 100,000 people have been displaced from El Fasher and surrounding villages in the past two weeks as escalating violence in Sudan's Darfur and Kordofan regions forces families to flee their homes, many for the second or third time, the UN Refugee Agency has warned. The displaced are navigating increasingly dangerous escape routes, with women and girls reporting rape and sexual violence during their flight from El Fasher. Armed groups have established checkpoints along evacuation routes, looting personal belongings and demanding exorbitant transportation fees from desperate families. "Families arriving in Tawila and surrounding areas recount unimaginable horrors prior to and…
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Nov
14
2025
By STAFF REPORTER
Dangote group signs multi-billion dollars deals with Ethiopia, Zimbabwe

Dangote group signs multi-billion dollars deals with Ethiopia, Zimbabwe

NEWS
AFRICA’S richest man is spearheading what analysts are calling the continent's most ambitious indigenous industrialisation drive, with Aliko Dangote's conglomerate announcing over $3.5 billion in new investments across Ethiopia and Zimbabwe, following the successful launch of Africa's largest oil refinery. Ethiopian Investment Holdings and Dangote Group signed an agreement to develop a three-million-metric-ton-per-annum urea fertiliser production complex in Gode, Ethiopia, with project costs estimated not to exceed $2.5 billion. Under the partnership structure, Ethiopian Investment Holdings will hold 40% equity while Dangote Group maintains 60% ownership of what will become one of the world's five largest urea production facilities. The…
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Nov
14
2025
By SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
African mercenaries in Ukraine: a continental crisis of deception, desperation, and diplomatic failure

African mercenaries in Ukraine: a continental crisis of deception, desperation, and diplomatic failure

NEWS
ACROSS sub-Saharan Africa, a silent recruitment crisis is ensnaring thousands of young men into one of the 21st century's bloodiest conflicts, revealing a toxic convergence of economic desperation, criminal networks, and geopolitical manipulation that threatens to destabilise Africa's relationships with both Moscow and Kyiv. The dimensions of African participation in the Russia-Ukraine war have only recently come into focus, and the numbers are staggering. Ukrainian intelligence reports document more than 1,400 African fighters embedded within Russian military formations, drawn from over 30 African nations. This is not a marginal phenomenon - it represents a systematic, continent-wide recruitment operation that has…
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Nov
14
2025
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
Kiir fires his heir apparent: South Sudan’s succession crisis explodes into open

Kiir fires his heir apparent: South Sudan’s succession crisis explodes into open

NEWS
IN a stunning move that lays bare the succession crisis consuming South Sudan, President Salva Kiir has dismissed Benjamin Bol Mel as vice president and deputy leader of the ruling party, severing ties with the man widely rumoured to be his own preferred successor. The decree, read on state television, provided no explanation for the firing. The dramatic dismissal of Bol Mel - appointed as one of the country's five vice presidents just nine months ago - came alongside the firing of the central bank governor and the head of the revenue authority, both seen as close allies of the…
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Nov
13
2025
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
Nigeria seizes $235 million in cocaine in what may be Africa’s largest drug bust

Nigeria seizes $235 million in cocaine in what may be Africa’s largest drug bust

NEWS
NIGERIAN authorities have seized 1,000 kilograms of cocaine worth $235 million at Lagos' Tincan Port, marking what officials say could be the largest drug haul in African history. The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has announced that it has enlisted U.S. and British law enforcement to track down the international syndicate behind the massive shipment, which was discovered hidden in an empty shipping container over the weekend. Terminal operators at the port first detected the suspicious container and immediately alerted the NDLEA and port security agencies. A joint examination uncovered the drugs, which laboratory tests confirmed as cocaine, before the…
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Nov
13
2025
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
The final blow to Gabon’s Bongo dynasty: Court imposes 20-year sentence

The final blow to Gabon’s Bongo dynasty: Court imposes 20-year sentence

NEWS
THE dramatic collapse of one of Africa's most entrenched political dynasties reached another humiliating milestone this week when a Gabonese court convicted Sylvia Bongo and her son Noureddin in absentia, sentencing them each to 20 years in prison for financial crimes. The verdict, delivered while the family shelters thousands of miles away in Britain, marks not just a legal reckoning but the symbolic dismantling of a regime that ruled Gabon for 56 years. From the gilded corridors of the presidential palace to detention cells, house arrest, exile in Angola, and now to Britain as convicted fugitives, the Bongo family's trajectory…
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Nov
13
2025
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
Amnesty International pressures African Union as Tanzania buries its dead

Amnesty International pressures African Union as Tanzania buries its dead

NEWS
AS funerals continue across Tanzania for victims killed by security forces following last month's disputed election, Amnesty International has launched an urgent campaign calling on the African Union and the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights to mandate independent investigations into what it describes as grave human rights violations. The campaign comes as mourners have been gathering at churches and family homes throughout the country, with funeral services held for those killed during the post-election violence. At Kinyerezi Catholic Parish in Dar es Salaam, services were held for victims, including a retired police officer, two teachers, a driver, a…
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Nov
12
2025
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
UN agencies push to connect 20 million refugees by 2030, expand Chad digital access

UN agencies push to connect 20 million refugees by 2030, expand Chad digital access

NEWS
UN agencies are accelerating efforts to bring internet access to millions of refugees in Chad and other host countries, with a goal of connecting 20 million forcibly displaced people by 2030. The push comes as Chad shelters approximately 1.5 million refugees, predominantly from neighbouring Sudan, where ongoing conflict has forced people across the border. Three senior officials from UNHCR, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), and the GSMA Mobile for Development Foundation wrapped up a two-day visit to Chad on Friday, touring refugee camps where digital connectivity is being deployed. "Too many people view refugees as passive victims, but we saw…
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Nov
12
2025
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
Women’s bodies ‘a crime scene’: systematic rape as thousands flee Sudan’s El Fasher

Women’s bodies ‘a crime scene’: systematic rape as thousands flee Sudan’s El Fasher

NEWS
RAPE is being wielded as a weapon of war in Sudan, where simply being a woman has become "a strong predictor" of hunger, violence and death, the United Nations gender equality agency has warned. As tens of thousands flee the fallen city of El Fasher, women describe a nightmare of starvation, displacement and sexual violence so pervasive that their bodies have become "a crime scene," according to UN Women officials. "Pregnant women have given birth in the streets as the last remaining maternity hospitals were looted and destroyed," Anna Mutavati, UN Women Regional Director for East and Southern Africa, told…
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