Africa

Guard dogs or state security? Malawi faces unusual post-election dispute

The German Shepherds, valued at $2,300 each, were brought out of the Lilongwe palace beginning three days after the election and finishing only the day before Mutharika’s inauguration on October 5.

Then-Malawi president Lazarus Chakwera speaks during an election campaign rally at Civo Stadium in Lilongwe, on September 13, 2025.
Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar meets with Somaliland President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdillahi in first diplomatic visit to Somaliland on January 6, 2026.

Israel’s new geopolitical compass points east and south - opinion

Somaliland Navy members participate in a parade celebrating the 33rd anniversary of their Independence in Hargeisa, Somaliland on May 18, 2024.

A Black African Jew to UN and African Union: Israel just did your job in Somaliland - opinion

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar meets with Somaliland President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdillahi in first diplomatic visit to Somaliland on January 6, 2026.

Why Somaliland meets the legal test for statehood and Palestine does not - opinion


Vatican calls for exclusive marriages, condemns polygamy, polyamory

Pope Leo says to the world's catholics they should only marry once and should not have multiple relationships.

Pope Leo XIV celebrates a Mass for the Jubilee of Choirs, in Saint Peter's Square, at the Vatican, November 23, 2025.

MSF halts operations in Darfur after paramilitary violence kills staff member

The victim of the attack was a worker for Sudan's health ministry, who was killed outside the Zalingei hospital.

South Sudan Red Cross workers help Engineer Emmanuel Maker, survivor of a plane crash at the Unity oilfield airport, after he was airlifted at the Juba Airport, South Sudan, January 29, 2025.

Volcano erupts in Ethiopia for first time in recorded history, forces several flights cancellations

The ash had blanketed parts of Pakistan and northern India on Tuesday after crossing Yemen and Oman, according to tracking website Flightradar24, and was moving towards China.

A satellite image shows ash rising from the eruption of the Hayli Gubbi volcano in Ethiopia as it drifts over the Red Sea, November 23, 2025.

Pro-Palestine activists interrupt Israeli ambassador at Senegal interfaith event

Pro-Palestine activists interrupted the Israeli ambassador’s speech at a Senegal interfaith conference, disrupting the event.

Conference in Senegal.

Neither of Sudan's warring factions has accepted truce plan, Trump advisor says

US envoy Massad Boulos explained that, while there were no objections to the plan's content, the Sudanese army had returned with "impossible preconditions."

Newly arrived Sudanese refugee children from al-Fashir, fleeing ongoing clashes between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese army, walk at the Tine transit camp in eastern Chad, November 23, 2025.

Adolf Hitler predicted to win second term in Namibian local elections

The politician said his father likely didn't understand who Hitler was when he named him after the infamous German dictator.

Adolf Hitler Uunona

315 abducted from Christian school in one of Nigeria’s largest mass kidnapping attacks

Mass kidnapping at a school in Nigeria sees 315 abducted as the search widens, raising fears of security and increasing attacks on schools.

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Islamic State-linked rebels kill 89 civilians in east Congo attacks, UN force says

Fighters from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) attacked several localities of Congo's North Kivu province and killed at least 20 women and an undetermined number of children.

Relatives mourn their kin who was killed in his farm following an attack by Islamic State-affiliated Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) rebels, in Mbimbi location of Oicha in Beni territory, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo September 10, 2025.

Nigerian court convicts separatist leader Kanu for terrorism

Nigerian court convicts separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu on terrorism charges, raising fears of renewed social unrest.

People enter the Federal High Court, as the trial of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous people of Biafra continues, in Abuja, Nigeria December 2, 2021.

Tunisian journalists protest, as crackdown on media escalates

Journalists and reporters waved press cards, chanting "Journalism is not a crime" and "Freedom for Tunisian media."

Tunisian journalists rally near the government's office, holding signs to protest press restrictions, call for greater freedom, demand the release of their jailed colleagues, and vow that the widening crackdown will not silence them, in Tunis, Tunisia, November 20, 2025.