Africa

At least six people have been shot dead by guards at a migrant detention centre in the Libyan capital of Tripoli, according to United Nations officials, after yesterday’s mass breakout by hundreds of people.

On Monday, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is expected to publish a new report showing global temperatures rising more quickly than anticipated, with government’s needing to go further and faster to prevent rising sea levels and more extreme weather events. Earlier we spoke to Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr – the mayor of Sierra Leone’s capital…

We spoke to a reporter with South African TV station ENCA, Masego Rahlaga, who was in the Alexandra township in Johannesburg, where police were retrieving items looted from nearby stores.

At least 72 people have been killed in days of violence in South Africa, fuelled by long-running anger over poverty and inequality and sparked by last week’s imprisonment of former president Jacob Zuma.  

In Africa just two percent of people are vaccinated. It has just seen the worst surge in Covid cases since the pandemic began, with cases now doubling every 18 days.

In Mozambique, the oil and gas rich northern province of Cabo Delgado has become one of the latest targets of resurgent Islamic state group militants.

One of the giants of African politics, Kenneth Kaunda has died at the age of 97. He was the first president of post-colonial Zambia and was taken to hospital in the capital Lusaka on Monday with pneumonia.

It seems world leaders may finally have clocked onto the mantra “no one is safe until everyone is safe”.

We spoke with leading international justice lawyer and award winning author Philippe Sands QC about why the  ICC takes so long to finalise cases, and focuses far more on African war criminals than those of other nations.

The Ethiopian government’s six-month-long military offensive against the rebel Tigray People’s Liberation Front continues to intensify.

Attacks are on the rise across the African continent; a consequence of poverty, domestic grievances new and old, and Africa’s resource “curse”.

Leaders of Mozambique’s military say they have retaken the coastal town of Palma, over a week after it came under attack by Islamist militants. The army claimed a “significant” number of extremist fighters had been killed, and that residents who had fled the area are now starting to return. Dozens of people died when the…

We spoke to the Foreign Office Minister responsible for the Middle East and North Africa, Conservative MP James Cleverly. We started by asking whether the reported foreign aid cuts to Syria would be reconsidered.

Truck drivers in East Africa have been branded Covid-19 “super spreaders” by political leaders, as governments there implement strict testing regimes they say are needed to stop the spread of the disease. 

Tanzania’s President is often described as Africa’s Trump – not least because of his bizarre pronouncements on coronavirus.