2024

Top footballer Senzo Meyiwa was killed on the orders of singer Kelly Khumalo, a South African court hears.

In mid-January, a gang carried out a series of deadly attacks on the Solino neighbourhood in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. One of our Observers, who lives in… Read More »‘They set it on fire’: Haitian man films his Port-au-Prince neighbourhood after gang attacks

The presidency scotches rumours that there is a plan to relocate the capital from Abuja.

Some say the comments are insensitive after 2,200 died of starvation and related illnesses in 2022.

In Israel, only a minority of young people refuse to carry out their military service, which is compulsory for both men and women. These conscientious objectors, known… Read More »Israel’s ‘refuseniks’: Meet the conscientious objectors refusing military service

France’s government sought on Thursday to find answers to farmers blocking motorways and demonstrating at public buildings across the country, after a fuel tax rise… Read More »French farmers pile pressure on govt to provide answers on aid, regulations

The government is assessing the value of the mineral reserves, which have been found in six counties.

The six have been sentenced to death by hanging for their involvement in a 2021 coup plot.

Anti-Semitic acts in France nearly quadrupled in 2023 compared with the previous year, a Jewish organisation said Wednesday, reflecting a surge in discrimination since the… Read More »Anti-Semitic acts nearly quadrupled last year in France, says Jewish organisation

The Kremlin on Thursday said Ukraine had shot down a military transport plane carrying dozens of Ukrainian detainees headed for a prisoner exchange in a… Read More »Kremlin says Kyiv downed military plane carrying more than 60 Ukrainian POWs