Africa

Pretoria has denounced a “deeply flawed” US report highlighting South Africa’s “deteriorating” human rights situation, days after Trump’s administration slapped 30% tariffs on many of the country’s exports.

Kenya will receive a $50,000 fine over crowd safety and security breaches, a football governing body said on Wednesday, warning that the country’s home matches will be relocated if the situation is not contained.

An internal audit reveals forged receipts, phantom suppliers and theft of food aid for drought-hit communities.

The new commando brigade base is expected to bolster Somalia’s fight against terrorists.

It is unclear how far the talks have advanced, but if implemented, the plans would amount to transferring people from one war-ravaged land at risk of famine to another.

The sanctions target armed groups and companies linked to illegal mining, says Treasury Department

Between 1956 and 1961, France’s fight against Cameroonian independence claimed “tens of thousands of lives” and left hundreds of thousands displaced, an official report said.

Thousands of civilians have been displaced in Kadugli and El-Fasher in southern Sudan due to renewed clashes between the army and paramilitary RSF.

At least eight people have been killed after flooding on Cape Verde’s Sao Vicente island overwhelmed emergency services and cut key roads.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el Sisi rejected any unilateral actions on the Nile River, warning that anyone who believes Egypt will overlook its water rights “is mistaken.”