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Dane van Niekerk 'uncomfortable' in cricket kit after fitness issues
Posted on Monday June 05, 2023

Former South Africa captain Dane van Niekerk says she feels "uncomfortable" wearing cricket kit after being dropped over fitness issues.

African Champions League: Are Al Ahly Africa's version of Real Madrid?
Posted on Saturday June 03, 2023

As Egypt's Al Ahly bid for a record-extending eleventh continental title, can similarities be drawn with Europe's most successful club side?

Kenya's Faith Kipyegon breaks 1500m world record
Posted on Friday June 02, 2023

Faith Kipyegon sets a new 1500m world record in the Florence Diamond League meeting on Friday, with Britain's Laura Muir a distant second.

Senegal shuts social media as protesters die after Sonko sentencing
Posted on Friday June 02, 2023

Police surround the home of the opposition leader, who faces a two-year jail term.

Sudan conflict: Caesarean by phone light - giving birth in a warzone
Posted on Saturday June 03, 2023

Women in Sudan's few remaining maternity wards are having babies to the sound of gunfire.

How Putin has given South Africa a big diplomatic headache
Posted on Friday June 02, 2023

The Russian leader's invasion of Ukraine has made life complicated for South Africa on several fronts.

Nigeria's fuel subsidy: How the new president has shocked the nation
Posted on Thursday June 01, 2023

Bola Tinubu has picked his first big fight with trade unions by deciding to scrap fuel subsidies.

Navigating the two sides of Somalia's capital Mogadishu
Posted on Wednesday May 31, 2023

Journalist Soraya Ali travels to Somalia to see if it really is how her mother remembers it.

Sudan Darfur crisis: 'Everything civilians can use has been burned or destroyed'
Posted on Monday May 29, 2023

Large-scale destruction caused by Arab militias in western Sudan is now visible from space.

South Africa period poverty: 'I don't want anyone else to use rags for sanitary pads'
Posted on Sunday May 28, 2023

South African Tamara Magwashu grew up unable to afford pads or tampons - now she is changing that for others.

Bola Tinubu inauguration: The five tests awaiting Nigeria's new president
Posted on Friday May 26, 2023

Bola Tinubu is taking over the presidency of Nigeria - a giant nation with gigantic problems.

Why Turkey's election is being closely followed in Africa
Posted on Thursday May 25, 2023

Whoever wins Sunday's Turkish presidential run-off cannot ignore the country's growing ties with Africa.

South Africa load-shedding: The roots of Eskom's power problem
Posted on Tuesday May 23, 2023

How corruption backed by a criminal network have led to South Africa's worst-ever power cuts.

Huge sandstorm sweeps across Suez Canal in Egypt
Posted on Friday June 02, 2023

Two of the canal's ports were closed as parts of Egypt were engulfed by dust and sand.

How do UK visa changes affect foreign students?
Posted on Thursday May 25, 2023

A clampdown on student visas means many Nigerian students won't be allowed to come to the UK with their families.

NYSC: How Nigerian graduates serve their country
Posted on Monday May 22, 2023

Every year thousands of Nigerian graduates across the country take part in the National Youth Service Corps, a compulsory year-long scheme.

Hilda Baci: I cooked for 100 hours to put Nigeria on the map
Posted on Tuesday May 16, 2023

Nigerians cheer on chef Hilda Baci, who looks set to be a Guinness World Record holder.

Stream and chill or a cinema trip?
Posted on Sunday May 14, 2023

Africa is projected to have 15 million video streaming subscribers by 2028. But what does this mean for the cinema industry?

South African pantsula dance ‘saved my life’
Posted on Saturday May 13, 2023

Meet Lerato Motsepe of the Soweto Skeleton Movers. She talks about how she expresses herself through dance.


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News24.com | Research finds that Lesotho has the highest suicide rate in the world
Posted on Monday June 05, 2023

Our World in Data said the major contributing factors for suicide included "differences in underlying mental health and treatment, personal and financial stress, restrictions on the means of suicide, [as well as] recognition and awareness of suicide".

News24.com | Uganda reports 54 peacekeepers killed in Somalia jihadist attack
Posted on Monday June 05, 2023

Some 54 Ugandan peacekeepers died when militants besieged an African Union base in Somalia last week, Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni said, in one of the worst recent attacks by Al-Shabaab jihadists in the war-torn country.

News24.com | 'Real hell': Deadly fighting escalates in Sudan as truce expires
Posted on Monday June 05, 2023

New outburst of violence in North Darfur state has left at least 40 people dead, activists and residents say.

News24.com | WATCH | All the latest news videos from around Africa
Posted on Tuesday February 21, 2023

Watch all the latest news videos from around Africa

News24.com | Mass layoff of Facebook moderators in Kenya halted by court
Posted on Sunday June 04, 2023

A Kenyan court on Friday ordered the suspension of the mass sacking of scores of content moderators by a subcontractor for Facebook's parent company Meta and directed the social media giant to provide counselling to the employees.

News24.com | Senegal death toll rises to 15 as tensions persist
Posted on Sunday June 04, 2023

Tensions remained high in Senegal Saturday after clashes brought the death toll to 15 since a court convicted opposition leader Ousmane Sonko.

News24.com | Voters roll for Zim elections to be accessible end of June, says electoral body
Posted on Saturday June 03, 2023

This according to the electoral body's chief elections officer, Utloile Silaigwana when he announced the end of the mop-up voter registration exercise on Friday.

News24.com | WATCH | Eswatini Air touches down in Cape Town, offering three flights a week in the city
Posted on Saturday June 03, 2023

Recently launched Eswatini Air has added Cape Town to its list of South African destinations after already landing in Johannesburg and Durban earlier this year.

News24.com | Senegal shuts down internet as riots erupt after opposition leader sentenced for sex crime
Posted on Friday June 02, 2023

Authorities in Senegal shut down the internet on Thursday night as protests rocked the country amid the sentencing to jail of opposition leader Ousmane Sonkp for sex crimes.

News24.com | Burkina Faso tops list of world's most neglected crises - Norwegian Refugee Council
Posted on Friday June 02, 2023

While the world is paying more attention to the war in Ukraine, the majority of neglected humanitarian crises for 2022/2023 were in Africa, according to the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) report.

News24.com | Charges racking up against Rwanda genocide accused arrested in Cape Town
Posted on Friday June 02, 2023

The alleged Rwandan genocidaire Fulgence Kayishema returned to court in Cape Town briefly on Friday to hear that the number of charges against him are increasing.

News24.com | Cholera death toll rises to over 420 in Cameroon
Posted on Thursday June 01, 2023

A further 26 people have died in Cameroon's ongoing cholera outbreak in the past two weeks, taking the overall death toll to 426, a health ministry official said on Thursday.

News24.com | Museveni says anti-homosexuality law is final - 'nobody will move us, we should be ready for a war'
Posted on Friday June 02, 2023

The Anti-Homosexuality Bill, widely condemned across the globe as the harshest law against LGBTQIA+ rights, has been challenged by rights activists in the Constitutional Court.

News24.com | WATCH | Senegal presidential aspirant Sonko sentenced to prison, sparking protests
Posted on Thursday June 01, 2023

Fresh unrest hit Senegal's capital Dakar on Thursday after a court sentenced a leading opposition politician, Ousmane Sonko, to two years in jail for corrupting youth, undermining his chances of running for president next year.

News24.com | Five African countries found to have violated 'promises' made to UN about human rights on the internet
Posted on Thursday June 01, 2023

Some African countries have "broken their word" on a United Nations resolution on human rights on the internet, according to cyber security company Surfshark.

News24.com | Eswatini convicts jailed pro-democracy lawmakers
Posted on Thursday June 01, 2023

Two pro-democracy lawmakers in Eswatini were found guilty of murder and "terrorism" on Thursday, in a trial stemming from a wave of protests that hit Africa's last absolute monarchy in 2021.

News24.com | WATCH | Zimbabwe passes 'draconian' Patriotic Bill ahead of elections
Posted on Friday June 02, 2023

Zimbabwe's president Emmerson Mnangagwa is expected to sign into law the Patriotic Bill, which critics and the opposition say is the most draconian law ever passed in the country's post-colonial history.

News24.com | DStv Uganda won't show gay content after harsh LGBTQIA+ law
Posted on Thursday June 01, 2023

MultiChoice won't be showing any queer content on DStv in Uganda after the government passed its anti-gay bill.

News24.com | US warns it will only mediate Sudan truce once the warring parties get 'serious'
Posted on Thursday June 01, 2023

The United States has said it will only be ready to mediate a truce between Sudan's warring parties when they get 'serious'.

News24.com | Zimbabwe facing myriad 'traditional' obstacles ahead of general elections
Posted on Thursday June 01, 2023

A tanking economy, lawfare, a shrinking civic space, propaganda, an electoral body under fire and disinformation have all come to the fore ahead of general elections in Zimbabwe.

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