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22.04.2026 12:30 The Conflict Insights Group says its research also shows the extent of UAE involvement.

22.04.2026 12:30 Taiwan has accused Beijing of putting pressure on African countries to close their airspace to Lai's plane.

21.04.2026 18:10 Allegations of a coup plot first surfaced in October 2025 when an Independence Day parade was cancelled.

21.04.2026 13:50 Fannie Masemola is accused of failing in his duties to provide proper oversight in his role.

21.04.2026 13:50 The kidnappers raided his palace on Saturday and are believed to be holding him in a forest.

21.04.2026 13:50 Kenya's John Korir sets a new course record of two hours, one minute and 52 seconds to win a second successive Boston Marathon.

20.04.2026 20:42 The youngest of those freed from an Allied Democratic Forces camp is a girl aged just 14, Uganda's army says.

20.04.2026 20:42 At the 1972 Miss World contest, Cynthia Shange was one of two contestants from South Africa - one black and one white.

20.04.2026 16:12 Shamim Mafi is accused of brokering the sales of arms to Sudan's defence ministry on behalf of Iran.

20.04.2026 16:12 Many Nigerians associate bats with witchcraft but that did not deter ecologist Iroro Tanshi.

20.04.2026 08:22 A DNA and legal project has identified the fathers of 20 children born near a military base in Kenya.

19.04.2026 10:51 One of Sudan's most popular bands, Aswat Almadina, recall being in the studio when the war broke out three years ago.

18.04.2026 17:12 The country's biggest musician Teddy Afro laments a lack of unity in the country on his new track.

18.04.2026 13:20 The Congolese government stresses those expelled from the US are only in the country temporarily.

18.04.2026 09:00 For centuries the prized sculptures, central to national identity, have been kept outside Zimbabwe's borders.