The American nuclear bomb attack on the Japanese city on 9 August 1945 killed around 70,000 people and left many more physically and psychologically scarred for life. In a ceremony, survivors and ...

New trade tariffs imposed by US president Donald Trump came into effect on Thursday. Countries like South Africa and Lesotho are also hard-hit and are still hoping to re-negotiate the tariffs in the ...

Since January 2025, nearly 600 people—many fleeing conflicts in Sudan, South Sudan, and the DRC—have entered Uganda each day.

Just a week after the Ivorian president announced his intention to run for a controversial fourth term this October, ...

A plane belonging to an air ambulance service provider crashed in a residential area just outside Kenya's capital on Thursday ...

On July 30th, UN experts reported that extremist groups in West Africa, like the al-Qaida-linked Jama’at Nasr al-Islam wal-Muslimin group, known as JNIM, and East Africa's al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab ha ...

A wealthy businessman on Thursday became the head of Haiti's transitional presidential council tasked with restoring order in ...

Ghana has opened investigations into the crash of a military helicopter that killed all eight people aboard, including the ...

The decision, agreed in a late-night meeting of its security Cabinet, marks a further escalation of Israel's 22-month war on ...

The head of the Transformers Party is accused of disseminating messages of a xenophobic nature, criminal conspiracy and murder ...

Experts say challenges with vaccination programmes on the ground have led to the ongoing transmission of the wild polio virus ...

It followed a US embassy alert Wednesday which warned of 'hazardous and carcinogenic substances' in Chambisi, an area in ...