Africa

Fighting between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces has displaced millions of people. (AP PHOTO)

‘Terrible escalation’: Hundreds killed in new Sudan atrocity

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

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An accident involving two buses on a highway in Uganda has left at least 63 people dead.

Horror bus crash leaves at least 63 people dead

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

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A rescue operation is underway in the Dominican Republic to bring 80 trapped miners to safety.

Desperate rescue mounted as 80 miners trapped

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

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Colonel Michael Randrianirina says Madagascar's armed forces have taken control of the country. (AP PHOTO)

Military ‘takes power’ of Madagascar after President flees

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

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Youth-led Madagascar protests began over water and electricity shortages but have since escalated into a military rebellion.

‘To protect my life’: Madagascar leader flees after revolt

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.

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Rescuers pulled scored of victims from a bus that crashed off a mountain road in South Africa.

Bus spears off mountain road killing at least 40

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

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One of Prince Harry's conservation charities has had its right to manage wildlife reserves withdrawn.

Prince Harry charity axed after ‘disrespect’ towards government

An African wildlife charity partly run by Prince Harry, has had its mandates to manage key animal reservations in Chad withdrawn by the country's government.

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Chantale Zuzi in Rwamwanja Refugee Settlement, Kamwenge District, Uganda, Aug. 20, 2025.

‘Curse’: Her grandma wanted to kill her because of her skin

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

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Jane Goodall observes Tess, 5 or 6 years old, left, Sophie, 7 , center, and Bahati, 3, eating at the Sweetwaters Chimpanzee Sanctuary near Nanyuki, 170 kms (110 miles) north of Nairobi Sunday December 6, 1997.  When young, orphaned chimps first come to the sanctuary, they are given lots of affection to compensate for the loss of their mothers. Jane Goodall, 64, who spent three decades studying chimpanzees, advocates animal rights, raising money for chimpanzee sanctuaries and doing conservation work.

‘Rich emotional life’: Jane Goodall’s primate breakthroughs

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’.

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In a photo provided by Nicholas Kristof shows, mothers wait to see doctors and nurses at a hospital in southwestern Uganda. President Trump’s cuts to humanitarian assistance abroad have hurt all kinds of people. But from what I see on the ground, those suffering the most are women and girls — and that will leave all of us, including men and boys, worse off, Nicholas Kristof writes. (Nicholas Kristof via The New York Times) – NO SALES, FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY WITH NYT STORY KRISTOF-COLUMN OF SEPT. 27, 2025. ALL OTHER USE PROHIBITED —

Trump’s aid cuts are a tax on women and girls

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.

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Weapon-mounted vehicles on the eastern edge of Zamzam camp after it was seized by Rapid Support Forces paramilitaries.

Starving children eat animal feed in besieged Sudanese city

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

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THE NEW YORK TIMES: In Sudan there’s no debate about genocide — and no response either

Sudan: No debate about genocide but no response either

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. 

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Amber Lee Hughes, 29, was found guilty of raping and murdering four-year-old Nada-Jane Chalita

Female preschool teacher raped, drowned partner’s daughter

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

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Two women have been killed in a brutal elephant attack.

Two women killed in horrifying elephant rampage

Two female tourists have been killed in a terrifying elephant ‘rampage’ while on a holiday safari.

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Hieroglyphs adorn the graves of senior statesmen in the Dra' Abu al-Naga necropolis area in Luxor. (AP PHOTO)

What’s inside the three tombs just discovered in Luxor

Egyptian archaeologists have discovered tombs dating back to the New Kingdom period from 1550-1070 BC, revealing what is inside the ancient discoveries.

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