MADRID — Human rights organizations in Spain and Morocco called on both countries to investigate the deaths of at least 18 Africans and injuries suffered by dozens more who attempted to scale the border fence that surrounds Melilla, a Spanish enclave i…
The heavily armed men appeared around the small farming village in Ethiopia’s Oromia region, frightening residents already on edge after recent clashes between government troops and rebels.“The militants assured us that they will not touch us. They sai…
NEW YORK — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told an international conference on food security Friday that the world is facing the “real risk” of multiple famines this year and that 2023 could be even worse.“The war in Ukraine has compounded prob…
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA — South Africans living in the Eastern Cape are counting down to “Day Zero” when the taps in the Nelson Mandela Bay area will run dry. Experts say climate change induced drought has left reservoirs almost empty, while municip…
South Africa’s Chief Justice Raymond Zondo has released a final and damning report after a long-running inquiry into influence-peddling and corruption during former President Jacob Zuma’s nine years in office. It recommends several high-ranking officia…
Malawi’s government and conservationists have announced plans to move 250 elephants from a park in the country’s south to a central one that has lost nearly all its population to poaching. But communities living near the park fear the new arrivals coul…