Orville Isaac Etoria, a 62-year-old Jamaican man, was recently deported from the U.S. to Eswatini under former President Donald Trump’s strict immigration policies. However, in a surprising turn, the Eswatini government has now confirmed that Etoria has been sent on to Jamaica. Etoria was repatriated voluntarily over the weekend and was “warmly welcomed by his […]

More than 80 buffaloes have died after trampling over each other and drowning in the Chobe River, Namibia’s environment ministry has confirmed. The animals were being chased by lions in Botswana when they plunged from a steep riverbank into the water on the Namibian side of the border, the ministry said in a statement. Mass […]

Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have announced their immediate withdrawal from the International Criminal Court (ICC), denouncing the UN-backed tribunal as an “instrument of neo-colonialist repression.” In a joint statement, the three military-led states said they no longer recognised the ICC’s authority, accusing it of selective justice. “The ICC has proven itself incapable of handling […]

Eleven people recently deported from the United States have taken legal action against the Ghanaian government, arguing that their detention in a military camp is unlawful. Their lawyer, Oliver-Barker Vormawor, said that none of the deportees had broken Ghanaian law and demanded that the state produce them in court to justify why they were being […]

Police in Mpumalanga have arrested a hospital cleaner after she was allegedly caught with a bag of human placentas, which authorities believe she was trying to sell. The suspect, identified as 39-year-old Rose Mnisi, was intercepted while hitchhiking towards Nelspruit after a tip-off led security officers and police to her. “Upon being approached, the woman […]

Egypt’s interior ministry says a 3,000-year-old gold bracelet that vanished from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo has been stolen and destroyed. The artefact, which dates back to the reign of Pharaoh Amenemope around 1,000 BC, was taken nine days ago from a museum safe by a restoration specialist, according to the ministry. Investigators say the […]

Spanish police have arrested 19 people accused of murder, torture and abuse after more than 50 migrants went missing from a boat that set sail from Senegal bound for the Canary Islands. The wooden vessel was intercepted south of Gran Canaria on 24 August with 248 survivors, but authorities believe around 300 people were originally […]

KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, who shocked the nation by alleging that South Africa’s police and justice system had been infiltrated by criminal syndicates, testified on Wednesday before a presidential commission of inquiry. Mkhwanazi first made the explosive claims in July, accusing senior politicians and police leaders of interfering in sensitive investigations to protect drug […]

Robert Redford, the magnetic Hollywood leading man who later became an Oscar-winning director and a driving force behind independent cinema, has died at the age of 89. His publicist confirmed that he passed away peacefully on Tuesday at his home in Utah. A Hollywood icon Redford shot to stardom in the 1960s and soon became […]

Gunmen on motorbikes have killed at least 22 people in a brutal attack on a village in Niger’s western Tillabéri region, local reports say. Witnesses told AFP that 15 people were shot dead while attending a baptism ceremony before the attackers moved on to kill seven others nearby. “While people celebrated a baptism ceremony, gunmen […]