Zimbabwe-born Ndodana Mkhanyisi Tshuma was arrested in South Africa in July on suspicion of murdering his wife and two children.

Mayor-President of Spain's North African enclave of Melilla Juan Jose Imbroda has called on Morocco to establish a 500-meter-wide neutral zone along the borders of both Melilla and the nearby Spanish North African enclave of Ceuta following a severe migrant surge targeting Ceuta

Kiharu MP, Ndindi Nyoro. PHOTO/UGC. BY MUHOHO FRANCIS Kiharu MP, Ndīndī Nyoro, stands as a revealing mirror of Mount Kenya’s contemporary leadership crisis. The Member of Parliament is not a leader in the traditional or transformative sense. Rather, he resembles a discotheque performer of economic rhetoric—animated, visible, and constantly in motion, yet ultimately detached from the structural realities he claims to address. He frequently brandishes spreadsheets, speaks fluently about bottom-up economics, and tweets gross domestic product figures as though he alone discovered the arithmetic of development. Yet the fundamental question remains unanswered: where is the parliamentary Bill that translates these assertions into binding law? Where is the motion designed to dismantle the entrenched coffee cartels that continue to impoverish farmers in Kangema, Mathira, and Othaya? Where is the legislative intervention aimed at breaking the dairy sector monopolies that determine the pr...

Barrister Ntumfon Ndangoh Tah Calvin of Cameroon. PHOTO/UGC. By Ntumfon Ndangoh Tah Calvin Recent reports of xenophobic violence targeting Africans, including Cameroonians and other foreign nationals in South Africa, have once again raised serious concerns about the protection of African citizens within their own continent. The continued silence and apparent lack of decisive response from several African governments, including Cameroon, is both troubling and disappointing. As a Cameroonian, it is difficult to understand why stronger diplomatic measures have not been taken to address the recurring incidents of hostility and discrimination directed at fellow Africans in South Africa. African unity cannot be reduced to rhetoric and slogans while citizens of one African state are attacked, intimidated, or denied opportunities in another. Diplomacy is grounded in mutual respect and reciprocity. The principle is straightforward: if you treat my citizens with dignity and fairness, I will ens...

Camille Knight is pleased to welcome Dirk Segaar, IFRC Special Envoy for Sudan. Sudan's humanitarian crisis has become one of the defining yet least visible crises of the twenty first century. Segaar argues that the conflict can no longer be understood merely through the lens of shifting frontlines or military developments. Rather, he presents a picture of systemic societal collapse, in which war has hollowed out public services, displaced entire communities, accelerated disease, and created conditions where humanitarian need extends far beyond the active battlefields. Sudan is not simply a conflict zone but a nation experiencing the cumulative breakdown of its social, economic and institutional fabric. 

A Russian ship under US sanctions, the Mikhail Britnev, dropped off its cargo of military vehicles at the Port of Lomé in Togo on July 9. It’s the first time that Togo has been a stop for a Russian shipment of weapons to Mali, carried out as part of Moscow’s support for the Malian government. 

South African farming communities have received their first carbon revenue payments from the GRASS project, showing how carbon finance can create new income opportunities while supporting regenerative agriculture and climate resilience.

Southern Africa is facing increasing wildfire risks driven by climate change, extreme weather, and dry conditions. This article explores how technologies such as portable water pumps, monitoring systems, and improved water management can help rural communities and agricultural businesses build resilience.

Bangladesh has formally protested Sheikh Hasina’s virtual addresses from Indian soil before, summoning New Delhi’s acting envoy last year after the ousted prime minister used one such broadcast to accuse Bangladesh’s interim leadership of turning the country into “a land of militants and terrorists.” Dhaka invoked that history this week as it pressed India for […]

Japan’s Defence Ministry released its annual white paper Tuesday framing the country’s fastest military expansion since World War Two as a driver of economic growth, illustrating the document with an anime-style cover of a smiling family in a glowing cityscape rather than the tanks and troops that have anchored past editions — a marketing pivot […]