While the residents are pleased to be home, they have concerns about insecurity as well as access to basic services

Paris Saint-Germain will play Inter Milan with the game getting underway at 21h Central Africa Time.

This week: The Sahel States Alliance launches a bank to boost regional economy. In Nigeria, tech drives recovery despite falling investments. In Kenya, the textile industry’s future is at risk.

The African Development Bank elected ex-Mauritanian finance minister Sidi Ould Tah as its next president at a vote in the Ivorian capital on Thursday

Ngũgĩ died aged 87 in the United States on Wednesday. One of the famous writer’s neighbours in his hometown in central Kenya remembers Ngũgĩ as a “kind man” who loved Kenya.

Supporters say it is necessary to protect secularism, while opponents have denounced it as discriminatory, Islamophobic, and a violation of the rule of law.

The BET Awards will celebrate its 25th anniversary by honoring four legendary performers — Mariah Carey, Snoop Dogg, Jamie Foxx and Kirk Franklin. The ceremony is scheduled for 9 June, taking place in Los Angeles.

n the first four months of the year, over 1,000 micro drama crews finished filming projects in Hengdian – one of China’s premier production centers

A group of protesters gathered in Paris on Wednesday to call for a ceasefire and an end to the war in the Gaza Strip. The activists were part of a variety of organisations, among them Greenpeace, Amnesty International and Médecins du Monde.

The life-saving medical treatment four-year-old Sofia receives in California is not available in Mexico.

Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people to a South Carolina museum devoted to African American history

While his exit was expected, it comes a day after he criticised Trump’s tax and spending bill, the centrepiece of the president’s agenda.

A boat carrying migrants capsized within reach of shore as it arrived at Spain’s Canary Islands on Wednesday and four women and three girls drowned, authorities said.

Aleppo, a city in northwestern Syria, has long been the country’s economic powerhouse. With countries lifting sanctions on Syria after the end of the brutal civil war, the nation is looking towards rebuilding and reviving Aleppo.

On Wednesday, Carlo Ancelotti, Brazil’s new manager, reunited with striker Vinícius Jr., one of his key players from Real Madrid.

A new report released by the World Meteorological Organisation on Wednesday warns that global annual temperatures are rising, leading to new weather extremes and heat records.

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, the revered Kenyan man of letters and voice of dissent who in dozens of fiction and nonfiction books traced his country’s history from British imperialism to home-ruled tyranny and challenged not only the stories told but the language used to tell them, died Wednesday at 87.

More than two million people in Gaza are facing overwhelming grief, starvation, and displacement as the war reaches its 600th day, with growing desperation for an end to the conflict.

In a report published on Wednesday, the ECRI said the practice — which sees officials act on ethnic background, skin colour, religion or citizenship rather than objective evidence — persists both in stop-and-search policing and at border controls.

The meeting is attended by 126 delegations from 104 countries that are members of BRICS, SCO, ASEAN, CIS, the League of Arab States, the African Union, the CSTO and other international organizations

Sales of Tesla vehicles in 32 European countries tumbled 49% to 7,261 in April from 14,228 in the same month the previous year, according to the figures released by the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association, or ACEA

The reduced stock is a result of aid cuts implemented by US President Donald Trump’s administration.

Macchio reprises his legendary role alongside Chan, who stars as a Kung Fu teacher. Chan, who has done his share of martial arts movies, talked about how important the first Karate Kid was to him

It was an unusual sight in Gordon’s Bay, a seaside town near Cape Town: an elephant seal weighing two tons galumphed down its streets on Tuesday morning. The animal was eventually caught and released on a nearby beach.

The government last week told Harvard’s thousands of current foreign students that they must transfer to other schools or they will lose their legal permission to be in the country.

Yamal’s existing deal was due to expire at the end of the current season, but it has now been extended until 2031.

The 65-year-old Italian trainer is new head coach for Brazil’s national football team. Ancelotti is set to be in charge of his first matches taking place next week against Ecuador and Paraguay in 2026 World Cup qualifiers.

Interviews already on the calendar will proceed. The halt remains in effect until new guidance is issued.

Merseyside Police said they were not treating the incident as terrorism and were not looking for other suspects. The force has not identified the arrested driver

Pretoria has announced wanting to buy liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the United States over a period of ten years in exchange for being able to export vehicles to Washington duty-free. The deal has not yet been accepted by the United States.

He is facing three separate cases filed in 2019, which include charges of bribery, fraud, and breach of trust, all of which he denies.

Two Brazilian nuns have gone viral after delivering an unexpected beatbox and dance performance during a Catholic television program.

On Wednesday, Namibia commemorates for the first time the mass killings of Herero and Nama people, committed by Germany, at the beginning of the 20th century. The genocide, termed by historians as “the first of the century”, led to the deaths of at least 70,000 people.

Exactly 50 years ago, on May 28, 1975, fifteen West African countries agreed to establish the Economic Community of West African States(ECOWAS).

Chaos erupted on the second day of aid operations by a new U.S.-backed group in Gaza as desperate Palestinians overwhelmed a center distributing food on Tuesday, breaking through fences.

The African Development Bank has downgraded Africa’s growth forecast for the next two years amid what it described as “unprecedented global circumstances” and “seismic shifts in the trade policies of major economies.”

Elon Musk’s Starlink telecoms business will not be given special dispensation by South Africa to bypass the country’s Black ownership requirements, Communications Minister Solly Malatsi said on Tuesday.

The alarming spike began mid-May and sickened more than 2,500 people over the past week.

“His passion for empowering the next generation of artists will remain integral to his legacy,”

In a report published on Tuesday, it claimed the Rwanda-back militants were responsible for killing, torturing, and forcibly disappearing civilian detainees in areas under its control.