UN court hears case of alleged Rwandan genocide financier stranded in legal limbo United Nations judges and lawyers have met to discuss the fate of a man accused of bankrolling genocide in Rwanda The Independent UK · Sep 25, 2025
What to know about the international flotilla seeking to break Israel's blockade of Gaza Spain and Italy have said they are sending navy ships to where a flotilla of dozens of boats carrying activists seeking to break Israel’s blockade of Gaza is sailing The Independent UK · Sep 25, 2025
‘They tortured me for things which are completely false': son of ex-Gabon leader's two-year nightmare In part two of The Standard’s interview with Noureddin Bongo, we look in detail at the allegations against him in Gabon and the torture he endured. Evening Standard · Sep 25, 2025
Unsafe abortions and no antenatal care: aid cuts hit women hardest in one of Africa’s poorest countries Mobile clinics in rural Malawi that provided pregnancy checks as well as vaccinations and TB tests have been lost The Guardian - UK · Sep 25, 2025
'Morgue Is Full': How Kenyan Starvation Cult Kept Killing The discovery of body parts and skeletons strewn around an isolated village in coastal Kenya has stoked fears that a doomsday starvation cult which claimed hundreds of lives has survived despite a major police operation. International Business Times · Sep 25, 2025
Malawi’s 85-year-old ex-leader returns to power in presidential election Lazarus Chakwera, who presided over a multi-year economic crisis, concedes election after Peter Mutharika wins 56.8% of vote The Guardian - UK · Sep 24, 2025
Malawi's Ex-president Mutharika Returns To Power In Crushing Vote Win Malawi's ex-president Peter Mutharika was re-elected to head the impoverished southern African country with nearly 57 percent of votes, the election authority announced Wednesday, following polls dominated by soaring living costs. International Business Times · Sep 24, 2025
King Felipe pleads with Israel to ‘stop massacre and abhorrent acts’ in Gaza Spain’s monarch uses UN speech to attack Israel’s actions in Gaza saying ‘we can’t keep silent or look the other way’ The Guardian - UK · Sep 24, 2025
BJP office torched, Ladakh tense, several injured in clashes A BJP office was torched while the situation in Leh town turned tense amid stone-pelting, teargas, and baton charges. Newslaundry · Sep 24, 2025
Gaza Civil Defence Says Dozens Killed In Israeli Strikes Gaza's civil defence agency said Israeli forces killed dozens of people across the Palestinian territory on Wednesday, as the military pressed its assault on Gaza City from where hundreds of thousands have been forced to flee. International Business Times · Sep 24, 2025
‘We are at our limit’: Gaza’s last hospitals overwhelmed as thousands flee south ‘Not enough of anything’, says surgeon, as Israel’s assault forces injured, sick and hungry people to leave Gaza City The Guardian - UK · Sep 24, 2025
Israel destroys evacuated health center in Gaza City, medics say A Palestinian medical charity says Israel destroyed its main center in Gaza City after ordering its evacuation The Independent UK · Sep 23, 2025
A Jamaican man deported by the US to Eswatini has been repatriated, authorities say A Jamaican man who was among five migrants deported by the United States to Eswatini in Africa has been repatriated to his home country The Independent UK · Sep 23, 2025
Ugandan President Museveni, in power since 1986, to seek another term Yoweri Museveni urges supporters to back his vision for the future as he seeks to run for a record seventh term. Al Jazeera · Sep 23, 2025
The Independent UK · Sep 23, 2025 British judge sentences an asylum-seeker to 12 months in a case that triggered anti-migrant protests A British judge has sentenced an asylum-seeker to 12 months in prison for sexually assaulting a woman and a 14-year-old girl
The Independent UK · Sep 23, 2025 Darfur cholera cases rising at an 'alarming' rate as death toll in Sudan tops 3,000, says WHO The number of reported cholera cases is increasing in Darfur and over 3,000 people in Sudan have died in the past 14 months of civil war, according to the World Health Organization
Al Jazeera · Sep 23, 2025 Spread of diseases overwhelms Khartoum hospitals in war-ravaged Sudan More than 5,000 cases of malaria, typhoid and dengue fever, causing dozens of deaths, were reported in last month.
The Guardian - UK · Sep 22, 2025 Disease X: Hunting the Next Pandemic review – an hour of pure terror Dr Chris van Tulleken learns that Covid-19 was nothing compared to what’s coming to wipe us out. Still, at least he’s like a jolly old uncle as he delivers the bad news
The Guardian - UK · Sep 22, 2025 Stop shilly-shallying and scrap the two-child benefit cap Letters: Readers respond to articles about rising child poverty in Britain, and the education secretary’s criticism that the two-child benefit cap has ‘punished and pushed children into hardship’
The Guardian - UK · Sep 22, 2025 British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah freed from prison Writer, who has served six years for sharing a Facebook post, was given a presidential pardon
Radio France Internationale · Sep 22, 2025 Cameroon: Amnesty calls for release of 36 activists, five years after crackdown Cameroon on Monday is marking five years since protests organised by the Cameroon Renaissance Movement (MRC) were violently repressed by the authorities. More than 500 people were arbitrarily arrested, 36 of whom remain in jail. As the country gears up for presidential elections, human rights group Amnesty International is calling…
Al Jazeera · Sep 22, 2025 Treason trial begins for South Sudan VP Machar as ‘unity government’ breaks The latest break between two military and political leaders risks spelling civil war again for the embattled nation.
The Independent UK · Sep 22, 2025 The Latest: Israeli army orders evacuation of a Gaza City hospital as world leaders gather at the UN Israeli forces are showing no signs of relenting on their new ground offensive in Gaza City as world leaders gather in New York for the United Nations General Assembly and more countries prepare to join the surge of nations recognizing a Palestinian state
Evening Standard · Sep 22, 2025 British soldier accused of Kenya septic tank murder named Robert James Purkiss is accused of a single count of murdering Agnes Wanjiru, according to court documents
The Independent UK · Sep 22, 2025 South Sudan opposition figure Riek Machar appears in court on treason charges The criminal trial of the South Sudanese opposition figure Riek Machar has opened in the capital, Juba, with the country’s suspended vice president appearing in a cage alongside his co-accused