Africa

The seven deportees are accommodated by an international organisation with visits by the International Organisation on Migration, the government spokesperson said.

Hundreds displaced in River Nile State and dozens of building have collapsed after heavy rains.

Algeria has summoned France’s chargé d’affaires to protest a statement issued by the French Embassy regarding visa procedures.

KoBold Metals, the mining company backed by US billionaires Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates, has received seven separate exploration permits to search for lithium and other minerals in DRC, the firm said on Wednesday.

Gunmen killed at least two people and abducted over 100 others, mostly women and children, in an attack on Nigeria’s Zamfara State, local officials said on Wednesday.

A South African court has found opposition politician Julius Malema guilty of hate speech for inciting his supporters at a political rally in 2022.

Flash floods have killed nine people in Sudan, a civil defence official said on Wednesday.

Washington’s preferential treatment of white Afrikaners for resettlement into the United States is “apartheid 2.0”, South Africa’s Foreign Minister Ronald Lamola said on Wednesday.

Tanzania’s electoral commission has disqualified an aspirant from running in the October 2025 presidential election, the opposition politician’s party said on Wednesday.

Joseph Oloyede had in April pleaded guilty to charges of fraudulently receiving funds from a programme meant to aid small businesses during the pandemic.