President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has trimmed the Cabinet from 21 to 14 ministries, advocating a leaner executive and the first female-majority leadership in Namibian history.

Namibia's annual inflation rate declined year on year but rose quarter on quarter in the first quarter of 2025, largely due to increased transport costs, the Bank of Namibia (BoN) reports.

Political and civil entities in Sudan issued a statement on the occasion of the anniversary of the June 30, 2019 March of the Millions, stressing that "the will to change is still alive". The ...

No fewer than 349 lives have been lost in various disasters that occurred between September 2024 and May 2025 across Niger State.

Analysis - Water is essential at all stages of food production, from irrigation to food processing to washing fruit and vegetables before we eat them. Crops and livestock need it to grow, but water ...

Analysis - The Hadejia Wetlands National Park in north-western Nigeria is a vital ecological treasure, designated as both a globally important wetland (Ramsar site) and an Important Bird Area, a site ...

Several parties have called for an urgent investigation into the collapse of the Karsh El Fil mine in the Howaid area of Sudan's Red Sea state, while the foreign ministries of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, ...

Analysis - Lex Futshane, the South African bass player in the 1992 student band NU Jazz Connection, was the first to tell me that the great South African jazz trumpeter Feya Faku had died while ...

Serious-to-severe food insecurity has been widely felt among those living through the worst, protracted humanitarian crises. For organizations like the World Food Programme (WFP), they must work under ...

High Court judge Justice Munamato Mutevedzi has dismissed an application by the Zimbabwe African Peoples Union (ZAPU) which sought to stop the chiefs-led Gukurahundi community outreach hearings.

Barnabas Tinkasiimire, a Ugandan member of parliament critical of President Yoweri Museveni, was abducted over the weekend ...

Nigeria is set to launch the largest reforestation campaign in history as Vice President Kashim Shettima announced the ...