The UN has expressed concern that Malian authorities have denied its human rights investigators access to a village where hundreds of people were killed. “We are extremely concerned that Malian authorities have still not granted UN human rights investigators access”, a statement by the UN Human Rights Office said. It says “time is of essence to […]
By Pumza Fihlani BBC News, KwaZulu-Natal Rescue operations are continuing in South Africa in an effort to save the lives of dozens of people who are missing following the floods in KwaZulu-Natal province. With more rain on its way, emergency teams face further peril as they search for survivors. “My house was here, […]
At least 45 people in South Africa have been killed in floods caused by days of heavy rain, the authorities say. It happened in the coastal province of KwaZulu-Natal, where many people are still missing and emergency services are searching for survivors. Some in the city of Durban are standing on rooftops awaiting rescue, but local […]
Many Nigerians have once again been left without state-supplied electricity for several hours, three weeks after the president apologised for the last nationwide outage. This time around, an aide to the president says an “act of vandalism” on a transmission tower is to blame. Distribution firms first reported problems with the national grid on Friday evening. […]
Tigray crisis Tigrayans are being targeted in a campaign of ethnic cleansing in part of Ethiopia’s conflict-hit northern Tigray region, a joint investigation has found. Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch (HRW) accuse officials and security forces from neighbouring Amhara of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in western Tigray – allegations dismissed […]
Residents of the capital of Somaliland, Hargeisa, have woken to scenes of devastation after fire tore through the main market overnight. The blaze destroyed hundreds of businesses in the densely crowded market area as firefighters struggled to gain access to the flames. But it appears that nobody was killed though 28 people were injured. The […]
Analysis Shingai Nyoka BBC News, Harare Zimbabwe’s opposition party the Citizens Coalition for Change has won 19 out of 28 parliamentary seats in Saturday’s by-elections. The ruling Zanu-PF party won the remaining nine, seizing two opposition seats. Both parties are describing the results as wins. It’s particularly symbolic for the CCC though, whose leader described […]
By Nomsa Maseko BBC News, Lagos Russia-Ukraine war About 100 African students are pleading for help to leave the Ukrainian port city of Kherson, more than two weeks after it was captured by Russian forces. They have been sheltering for days in underground bunkers on campus in bitterly cold temperatures, with no heating […]
Ukraine crisis The war in Ukraine could have a devastating effect on some African states, threatening their economies and seeing governments come under diplomatic pressure to take sides in the escalating feud between Russia and Western powers. As an article in South Africa’s Daily Maverick news site noted, war in far-away Europe will “be […]
About 60 people have died after an explosion at a makeshift gold mine in a village in south-west Burkina Faso, local officials say. The blast happened in a market at the gold-mining site when dynamite stored there caught fire, witnesses said. “There were bodies strewn everywhere. It was an explosion that managed to uproot […]
