December 2025
Trump announces strike against ISIS in Nigeria
In the latest military campaign against non-state adversaries, the president declared the Islamic jihadis have been slaughtering Christians.
US miners take on Rio Tinto’s Simandou project
The Ivanhoe Atlantic project would supply iron ore to America and its allies but faces opposition in West Africa – and Washington.
November 2025
G20 summit defies Trump, adopts declaration on climate, Gaza
Envoys from the group – which brings together the world’s major economies – have drawn up a draft leaders’ statement without US involvement.
After Sudan massacres, the world said ‘never again’ – then did nothing
About 200,000 civilians rare trapped in El-Fasher, and hundreds of thousands in a refugee camp are at risk. All options must be on the table to protect them.
Inside one of this century’s worst ethnic massacres
Sudanese militiamen moved through a Darfur hospital ward by ward and killed hundreds. More people may have died since the start of November than in the entire Gaza war.
Nigeria rejects US military threat over alleged Christian killings
A spokesman for Nigerian President Bola Tinubu says that threats of armed intervention from Donald Trump are based on misleading reports.
October 2025
Nelson Mandela, ‘the naughty boy who noticed things about people’
In a new book, Barbara Masekela, the former South African president’s chief of staff, reveals his yearning to be ordinary, his humour and his penny-pinching ways.
August 2025
Where there’s no debate about genocide — and no response, either
Sudan is probably the site of the world’s worst humanitarian crisis today, with at least 12 million people forced to flee their homes. No one is doing anything about it.
August 2025
Battered Wallabies miss late chances against Springboks
Australia scored three tries and had another one disallowed, but they suffered injuries and missed opportunities against the world champions in Cape Town.
Chinese triads and Mexican cartels exploit US cuts to wildlife aid
Criminals involved in trafficking endangered animals are ‘loving’ the closure of US-funded programs to combat wildlife trafficking and protect endangered species
July 2025
This country was already in crisis. Trump’s aid cuts were catastrophic
The freeze on USAID had an immediate and deadly impact in war-ravaged Sudan, according to civilians, doctors and aid officials.
June 2025
South Africa built a medical research powerhouse. Trump cuts demolished it
The budget cuts threaten global progress on everything from heart disease to HIV – and could affect American drug companies, too.
May 2025
Why Afrikaners are the only refugees welcome in Trump’s America
The US president’s decision to grant refugee status to white South Africans has been criticised as a double standard rooted in race.
April 2025
World’s poorest nations to crumble in Trump’s trade war
Madagascar, the “mountain kingdom” of Lesotho and Pacific island Nauru are on the list of countries hit with punishing US tariffs.
February 2025
The catastrophic war no one is talking about
Sudan’s vicious civil war is nearly two years old. Over 150,000 people are dead, and 12 million displaced, in the world’s biggest humanitarian crisis.
African leaders push for ceasefire in stricken Congo
The government has previously refused to negotiate. But with rebels seizing another major town, a deal is the only way to prevent more deaths.
September 2024
A genocide is under way in Sudan yet the world is silent
When an Arab militia rampaged through Maryam Suleiman’s village in the Darfur region of Sudan last year, “so many men were killed, like grains of sand”.
No one is talking about the world’s worst humanitarian crisis
Sudan’s catastrophic war could kill millions and spread chaos across Africa and the Middle East as huge numbers of refugees flee the country.
August 2024
As the world looks elsewhere, famine descends on Darfur
Conflicts in the Gaza Strip and Ukraine have attracted international attention while children die unnecessarily in Sudan.
June 2024
South Africa’s post-apartheid reckoning
The country that heroically freed itself of the colonial legacy of white minority rule in 1994 is now facing a political crossroads after Wednesday’s election.
Jacob Zuma the disruptor has South Africa’s fate in his hands
Six years after being pushed from office, the former prime minister successfully upstaged his successor Cyril Ramaphosa in national elections this week.
Party that freed South Africa from apartheid loses 30-year majority
With more than 99 per cent of votes counted, the once-dominant ANC had received just over 40 per cent in parliamentary elections – well short of the majority it held.
May 2024
Nelson Mandela’s party set to lose majority in seismic election
South African voters have watched the economy stagnate over the past decade, while unemployment and poverty have climbed and infrastructure has crumbled.
April 2024
The rare earths mine becoming a bellwether for US minerals policy
China is home to 70 per cent of rare earths mining and 90 per cent of processing capacity. Tackling this dominance has become one of Washington’s strategic priorities.
‘Hardest Geezer’ finishes 16,300km run across 16 countries in 352 days
Briton Russ Cook had hoped to jog the length of Africa in 240 days, the equivalent of more than a marathon every day. Sandstorms and robberies intervened.
