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President-elect Donald Trump has named Republican Congresswoman Elise Stefanik to serve as the US ambassador to the United Nations. A longtime Trump ally, Stefanik is a staunch supporter of Israel and has also been critical of the UN for what she argues is a lack of sufficient backing for its war against Hamas. “Elise is […]

Burkina Faso’s armed forces say they are investigating a gruesome video that purports to show military volunteers hacking apart a dead body with machetes, while gloating to the camera. Work is under way to verify the video and the people shown in it “so that they can be held accountable for their actions, if the […]

The prime minister of Mauritius has accepted that his coalition, L’Alliance Lepep, has suffered a “huge defeat” following Sunday’s parliamentary election. “The population has decided to choose another team,” Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth, 62, told journalists on Monday. Jugnauth was seeking a second five-year term, but his main rival, Navin Ramgoolam, 77, leader of the […]

Kenya’s most senior judge has hit out following recent allegations of corruption and incompetence within the judiciary. “In all these 22 years I’ve been a judge and a chief justice, nobody has ever approached me with a bribe. I would have them arrested,” Martha Koome told the BBC. The country’s first female chief justice has […]

Ghana is due to get a new president after December’s election. The current vice-president, Mahamudu Bawumia, and a former head of state, John Mahama, are the two leading candidates in contention to win the poll. Nana Akufo-Addo, first elected in 2016, is coming to the end of his second and final four-year term. When is […]

India has said it is not nervous about working with Donald Trump, as the former US president is set to return to office for a second term after his win in the recently held election. Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar said on Sunday that many countries were nervous about a [Trump-led] US, but added that […]

The Republican Party is edging closer to overall control of the US Congress, having already secured a majority in the Senate and needing fewer than five seats to take the House of Representatives. A party needs 218 seats to win a House majority and president-elect Donald Trump’s has 214, according to the latest data, compared […]

Herders scooping murky water from a small pond in grasslands in South Sudan are well aware of the dangers they face if they drink it. “The water is dirty because this place has oil – it has chemicals in it,” says their chief, Chilhok Puot. Nyatabah, a woman from this community raising cows in the […]

Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille has been fired by the country’s ruling council less than six months after he took office. An executive order, signed by eight of the council’s nine members, named businessman and former Haiti Senate candidate Alix Didier Fils-Aime as Conille’s replacement. Conille, a former United Nations official, was brought in to […]

Autumn Nations Series: Scotland v South Africa Scotland (9) 15 Pens: Russell 5 South Africa (19) 32 Tries: Mapimpi 2, Du Toit, Wiese Cons: Pollard 3 Pens: Pollard 2 South Africa claimed an intense and thrilling victory over Scotland at a raucous Murrayfield, the 17-point margin at the end doing nothing to reflect what a […]