Africa

Benin’s President has condemned an attempted coup that was foiled by the country’s army in his first public comments since sporadic gunfire was heard in parts of the country’s capital.

Officials in northern Ethiopia say a volcano, which has no previous record of eruption, has sent ash plumes across the Red Sea.

Paramilitary fighters with the RSF overran the city of el-Fasher, the Sudanese military’s last stronghold, killing and detaining hundreds of people.

At least 63 people have been killed in a road crash involving two buses on a busy highway in Uganda.

Officials say 80 miners are trapped underground in the Dominican Republic with a rescue operation underway.

A Madagascar army colonel says the military has taken charge of the African island country after President Andry Rajoelina fled.

In a speech made from an undisclosed location after a military rebellion, President Andry Rajoelina said he has fled Madagascar in fear for his life but was yet to announce his resignation.

More than 40 people are dead after a bus veered off a mountain road and fell into an embankment in northern South Africa.

An African wildlife charity partly run by Prince Harry, has had its mandates to manage key animal reservations in Chad withdrawn by the country's government.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: She was born with albinism and carried on while school kids acted as if her difference was contagious.

Her discoveries as a primatologist in the 1960s about how chimpanzees behave in the wild broke new ground and were hailed as ‘one of the Western world’s great scientific achievements’.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Trump’s cuts to humanitarian aid abroad have hurt all kinds of people. But from what I see on the ground, women and girls are suffering the most — and that will leave all of us worse off.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Doctors shelter in foxholes during bombing raids, and malnourished patients are sustained with animal feed.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Whatever you think of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza we should recognise our collective failure to address this other crisis with an even higher death toll. 

She admitting to killing the four-year-old but denied raping her. Now the girl’s grieving father has only ‘two-thirds’ of closure. WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT