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US soldier Travis King, who fled from South to North Korea before being returned home, will plead guilty to desertion and other charges, his lawyer has said. The army filed 14 charges against Mr King for the illegal crossing in July 2023. He plans to enter a guilty plea to five charges, including desertion and […]

As record numbers of young Africans risk their lives trying to reach the Canary Islands, Spain’s prime minister begins crisis talks with Senegal, Mauritania and The Gambia to tackle migration. But this will come as little comfort to Amina. “I found out that my son had died on social media,” she tells the BBC from […]

The United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has said that big polluters have a clear responsibility to cut emissions – or risk a worldwide catastrophe. “The Pacific is today the most vulnerable area of the world,” he told the BBC at the Pacific Island Forum Leaders Meeting in Tonga. “There is an enormous injustice in relation […]

Children in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo are worst-affected by the current outbreak of mpox, which has been declared a public health emergency of international concern by the World Health Organization. The country accounts for nearly all of this year’s recorded cases and more than 450 deaths. “It began like a small, […]

Mariah Carey’s mother Patricia and sister Alison died on the same day over the weekend, the US singer has said in a statement. “My heart is broken that I’ve lost my mother this past weekend,” Carey said on Monday. “Sadly, in a tragic turn of events, my sister lost her life on the same day.” […]

Gabon’s interim president who seized power in a coup a year ago has barred members of his transitional government from holidaying abroad. Gen Oligui Nguema has also limited government officials to a maximum of one week of holiday leave. These new restrictions were announced on state television, after he toured the country to listen to […]

When plans to hike taxes drove Kenya’s young people to revolt against the political establishment in June, they turned to technology to organise themselves.  They built custom GPTs — artificial intelligence programs — to educate each other about the proposals, gathered in X Spaces to plan protests, and even had TikTok influencers doing political education. […]

Since 2016, the City of Johannesburg (CoJ) metro has had a constant change of mayors meaning that decision-making and planning commitments were always subject to changes, hence lack of service delivery could be seen across the city. The city has had nine mayors from different political parties in the space of eight years but the […]

Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF)  leader Julius Malema has reassigned the party responsibilities previously held by his former deputy Floyd Shivambu to secretary general Marshall Dlamini after Shivambu defected to Jacob Zuma’s uMkhonto weSizwe party last week.  Dlamini will serve as the EFF’s chief whip in parliament, while Malema’s office will oversee the governance task unit. […]

A French court has seized three jets owned by the Nigerian government amid a long-standing dispute with a Chinese company. The row stems from a 2007 contract between Zhongshan Fucheng Industrial Investment and Nigeria’s south-western Ogun State to develop a free-trade zone where a massive industrial park was to be developed to attract investors. The […]