IN SHORT: The claim that Biafra separatist Simon Ekpa has arrived in Nigeria for trial is false. His case is expected to be heard in a Finnish court in June 2025. A message circulating as "breaking ...

Nigeria's Lagos state has a new law requiring any person of the Igbo ethnic group to obtain an identity card to reside in the state. That's according to a message posted as "breaking news" in a public ...

The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) has launched investigations into more than 400 of its staff over suspected involvement in a multi-billion-shilling Value Added Tax (VAT) fraud scheme, amid a wider ...

The House of Representatives has rejected a bill seeking to amend the 1999 constitution to provide for rotation of the offices of the president and vice president among the six geopolitical zones of ...

The UN80 Initiative is anchored in answering these questions - and equipping our organization in an era of extraordinary uncertainty. Yes, these are times of peril.

A record 83.4 million people have been forced from their homes around the world, fuelled by an increase in disasters and conflict, the UN migration agency, IOM, said on Tuesday.

Amid Trump's crackdown on immigration, mass deportations, and limitations of refugees from countries such as Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo, white South Africans receive special exception ...

Analysis - Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is trained on enormous bodies of text, video and images to identify patterns. It then creates new texts, videos and images on the basis of this ...

Analysis - Ethiopia and Iran signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on 6 May 2025. Under it, their national police agencies will cooperate on security and intelligence. This will include combating ...

Born into the Cissokho family of griots (some relatives spell it Sissoko or Cissoko), it would have been a challenge for Momi Maiga to imagine himself becoming a dentist or, really, anything other ...

Dialogue is no cure-all, but recognising jihadists as political actors - not just enemies - reframes the choice: between fighting and talking, between managing defeat and imagining change.

Analysis - Launched in February 2024, the Protecting and Promoting Whistleblowers in South Africa (PPW) project is a collaboration between Democracy Works Foundation (DWF) and The Whistleblower House ...