The rolling green hills of KwaZulu-Natal appear calm and picturesque, but beneath the surface farmers are grappling with deep anxiety. The province has become the epicentre of a fast-spreading foot-and-mouth disease outbreak that, over the past year, has reached eight of South Africa’s nine provinces. The highly contagious virus has devastated herds, with thousands of […]

A toxic gas leak at a mine in north-central Nigeria has killed 37 people and left 26 others hospitalized, police said. The incident occurred in the early hours of Tuesday in Kampani Zurak community in the Wase area of Plateau State, according to police spokesperson Alfred Alabo. “Preliminary investigations revealed that the miners were exposed […]

Police in South Africa have detained the youngest son of Zimbabwe’s former president Robert Mugabe following a reported shooting at a property in an upmarket suburb of Johannesburg. Bellarmine Mugabe, believed to be in his late 20s, was taken into custody after allegations that a 23-year-old man — reportedly a gardener at the property — […]

Rev. Jesse Jackson, the veteran civil rights leader and two-time US presidential candidate who spent more than five decades fighting for racial equality and economic justice, has died aged 84. His family confirmed that he died peacefully on Tuesday, surrounded by relatives. “Our father was a servant leader — not only to our family, but […]

About 100 US troops have arrived in Nigeria to train the country’s armed forces and provide intelligence support as it confronts mounting security threats from Islamist militants and other armed groups. The soldiers and their equipment landed at an airfield in Bauchi state in north-eastern Nigeria, defence spokesperson Major General Samaila Uba said. He stressed […]

Three South Africans have been charged with murder following the killing of an e-hailing driver in a case that has shocked the country after dashcam footage of the attack circulated widely on social media. The victim, 22-year-old Isaac Satlat, was killed last Wednesday in Pretoria. Video from inside the vehicle appears to show a man […]

A Somali airline has praised one of its pilots after he safely crash-landed a passenger plane on the shoreline near Mogadishu’s international airport, following a technical fault, with all 55 people on board surviving. Starsky Aviation said the pilot’s quick thinking was crucial in saving the lives of the 50 passengers and five crew members. […]

Senegalese police say they have arrested 14 people and dismantled a paedophile network operating between Senegal and France. In a statement, police said all those arrested are Senegalese nationals and were part of a transnational criminal group that had been active since 2017. The suspects face allegations including organised paedophilia, pimping, rape of minors under […]

Madagascar’s military-led government has sharply criticised Eswatini for hosting ousted president Andry Rajoelina last week, calling the visit a “grave infringement” of the country’s sovereignty. The row erupted after Eswatini released photographs on Friday showing King Mswati III meeting Rajoelina. During the encounter, the monarch urged Madagascar’s military authorities to restore constitutional order. In a […]

A single flourish of a US president’s pen in Washington continues to reverberate some 13,000km (8,000 miles) away in South Africa, shaping lives long after the ink dried. There was a sharp intake of breath across South Africa’s health sector last year when, just hours after his inauguration, President Donald Trump signed an executive order […]