Zimbabwe's government has announced an initial pay-out of US$3m (£2.3m) to white farmers whose farms were seized under a controversial government program more than two decades ago.
It is the first payment to be made under the 2020 compensation (...)
The World Food Programme said that the Trump administration had axed funding for life-saving schemes in 14 impoverished countries — despite previously pledging to spare vital aid.
The World Food Programme (WFP) has warned that the Trump (...)
Kirsty Coventry has been elected president of the International Olympic Committee and becomes the first woman and first African to get arguably the biggest job in global sports.
The Zimbabwe sports minister and two-time Olympic swimming gold (...)
US President Donald Trump has said he will cut all future funding to South Africa over allegations that it was confiscating land and "treating certain classes of people very badly".
Last month, President Cyril Ramaphosa signed into law a bill that (...)
The Archbishop of Canterbury has announced he will step down from his role following a damning report into a prolific child abuser associated with the Church of England.
The review found that Justin Welby, 68, "could and should" have reported John (...)
The Archbishop of Canterbury, the most senior cleric in the Church of England, is under mounting pressure to resign after a damning report accused him of failing to take sufficient action against a sadistic child abuser.
A review of the church's (...)
Botswana's new president has told the BBC that he wants undocumented Zimbabweans to be legalized by granting them temporary work and residence permits.
"They do jobs that would otherwise not get done," Duma Boko told the BBC Africa Daily podcast (...)
Zimbabwe's government has banned "with immediate effect" police officers from using mobile phones while working.
The ban is contained in a memo, ordering police officers to abandon their private communication gadgets while on duty.
All officers are (...)
After Kim Jong Un's big green bulletproof train trundled around Russia's Far East last year, the North Korean leader invited Putin to visit him. That invitation was duly accepted.
Over the past week, sources had hinted that the visit was imminent, (...)
Top UN officials launched a fresh global campaign to tackle the climate emergency on Tuesday, with social media influencers, Indigenous leaders and corporate giants showing what they've done and what's to come.
The Climate Promise 2025 aims to (...)
A deadly heatwave in West Africa and the Sahel was "impossible" without human-induced climate change, scientists say.
Temperatures soared above 48C in Mali last month with one hospital linking hundreds of deaths to the extreme heat.
Researchers say (...)
Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa has declared a national disaster to tackle the prolonged drought crisis.
Mnangagwa said on Wednesday the country needs $2bn (£1.6bn) to tackle hunger caused by low rainfall which has wiped out about half of (...)
Few political turnarounds can match the last month in Senegal.
Just over two weeks ago, Bassirou Diomaye Faye was a little-known opposition leader languishing in jail, detained without trial on charges including inciting insurrection, who had never (...)
Tanzania's founding father Julius Nyerere has been honoured with a statue outside the African Union headquarters in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa.
Nyerere led what is now Tanzania from independence in 1961 until 1985.
Known as Mwalimu, Swahili for (...)
Tanzania's founding father Julius Nyerere has been honored with a statue outside the African Union headquarters in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa.
Nyerere led what is now Tanzania from independence in 1961 until 1985.
Known as Mwalimu, Swahili for (...)
RIYADH — Saudi Arabia's Communications, Space and Technology Commission (CST), in cooperation with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), has announced the launch of the Development of Electronic Waste Management Regulations (...)
In the face of rising hunger and poverty, developing countries will continue their decades-long fight for a more just and equitable world, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez told the UN General Assembly on Tuesday.
Speaking on behalf of the (...)
The Cabinet, chaired by Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman on Tuesday at Al-Salam Palace in Jeddah, was briefed on the outcome of the official visit of Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed Bin Salman to France and his meeting with (...)
The Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Dawah and Guidance, represented by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's Embassy in South Africa, has begun distributing copies of the Holy Quran in various sizes to the Republic of Zimbabwe as a gift from the Custodian of (...)
Mozambique is being lashed by rain, powerful winds and flooding as Cyclone Freddy makes landfall for the second time in a month.
The southern African nation has received more than a year's worth of rainfall in the past four weeks.
Freddy may become (...)
Tropical cyclone Freddy, one of the longest-lasting systems in the southern hemisphere, slammed into Mozambique on Friday, as UN agencies helped residents with early action.
Accurate early warnings and early action on the ground helped limit loss of (...)
More than 33 million children in several southern African countries have been vaccinated against polio as part of ongoing efforts to eradicate the infectious paralytic disease that has been largely contained in most of the world, the World Health (...)
The members of the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) unanimously agreed to select the Executive Director of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia at the IMF, Abdullah bin Zarah, as Chairman of the Ad Hoc Audit Selection Committee (ASC) (...)
The members of the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) unanimously agreed to select the Executive Director of Saudi Arabia at the IMF, Abdullah Bin Zarah, as chairman of the Ad Hoc Audit Selection Committee (ASC) and as a member (...)
Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa received Tuesday at the Presidential Palace Advisor at the Royal Court of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Ahmad Bin Abdulaziz Qattan.
During the meeting, Advisor Qattan conveyed the greetings of Custodian of the (...)
