Home Affairs Minister Leon Schreiber has announced an 18-month extension to the Zimbabwean Exemption Permits (ZEPs), extending their validity to 28 May 2027. The ZEP was first introduced in 2017 and was designed to regularize the status of Zimbabwean nationals residing in South Africa under the previous Zimbabwean Dispensation Permit. In December 2021, the Department […]
The group leading mass protests has demanded the government’s dismissal after days of unrest that left three people dead. The GenZ 212 has demanded the dismissal of the current government for its failure to protect the constitutional rights of Moroccans and respond to their social demands. The group, whose main organisers remain unknown, also said […]
The UN World Food Programme has announced that it is cutting food assistance for hundreds of thousands of people in Somalia, where millions are facing the devastating effects of climate change and acute levels of hunger. The agency said the number of people receiving emergency food assistance in the country will decrease from 1.1 million […]
Lawmakers in Chad have fast-tracked a proposal to allow the president to serve an unlimited number of terms, in a move that the opposition warns opens the door to authoritarianism. The vote means that Chad’s constitution will be amended to extend the president’s term from five to seven years, renewable without limit. Both houses approved […]
Two Kenyan human rights activists, Bob Njagi and Nicholas Oyoo, went missing in Uganda after reportedly being abducted by armed men while attending opposition leader Bobi Wine’s campaign event. Bobi Wine strongly condemned the “abduction”, saying the pair had been “picked up mafia-style” at a petrol station and driven off to an unknown destination. Bobi […]
Namibia is set to deploy helicopters and hundreds of soldiers to battle a massive fire that has ravaged a third of Etosha National Park, one of southern Africa’s top tourist attractions. It is also home to critically endangered black rhinos. The blaze, believed to have started at a charcoal production site outside the park, spread […]
A military court in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) has sentenced former president Joseph Kabila to death in absentia, convicting him of crimes including war crimes. The charges concern accusations that Kabila has been supporting the M23, a rebel group who have wreaked devastation across the country’s eastern region. Kabila was convicted […]
In Sudan’s vast western region of Darfur, journalists in El-Fasher are trapped under siege, suffering violence, hunger, and relentless bombardment alongside the people they report on. Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a paramilitary group formed from the notorious Janjaweed militias in Darfur, have been fighting the Sudanese army since April 2023. In May 2024, they encircled […]
Peace in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) “is still mostly a promise”, the head of the UN peacekeeping mission in the country, MONUSCO, told the Security Council on Tuesday. “There are discrepancies between the progress we see on paper and the reality we observe on the ground which continues to be marred with […]
Former Malian Prime Minister Moussa Mara has appeared in court in Bamako as judges rejected his bail application for his release on bail. The prosecution instead sought a two-year prison sentence, an action encapsulating the military junta’s crackdown on political opposition and dissent. Mara, who served briefly between 2014 and 2015, was arrested on August […]
