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Germany’s foreign minister wrapped up a two-day visit to Nigeria Wednesday as Berlin moves to deepen business opportunities across Africa amid a more isolationist United States and geo-political pressure from Russia and China. Johann Wadephul called for “strengthening trade and investment” at a meeting with his counterpart Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu in Abuja, having spent Tuesday in the economic capital, Lagos. Claudia… Read More

Ndodana Tshuma, who is in custody on suspicion of killing his wife and two young daughters, did not apply for bail when he appeared at a Johannesburg court on Wednesday. The magistrate has since scheduled the case to be heard again in court on 27 August. Tshuma, a British citizen of Zimbabwean origin, was arrested earlier in July in the… Read More

The World Health Organization says the death toll in the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda has surpassed 1,000. In all, 2,473 cases of the deadly virus, including 999 deaths, have been confirmed in the Congo, while 20 cases, including two deaths, have been registered in neighbouring Uganda. Kinshasa’s health ministry says that at least 737… Read More

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Tuesday his office does not have the authority to carry out the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and called on US federal officials to step in. “My administration has reviewed every avenue available under applicable law to determine whether New York City could execute the International Criminal Court’s… Read More

Liberian police say they have made the country’s biggest drug bust ever, after raiding a suspected storage site near the capital and finding what officials believe is a huge quantity of cocaine. Police released photos and video showing dozens of sealed suitcases and boxes packed inside a lorry. Police chief Gregory Coleman said forensic tests confirmed the substance was cocaine,… Read More

The head of Burkina Faso’s military government, Ibrahim Traore, has sought to stamp out speculation of a power struggle within its ranks, warning he intends remaining the country’s only leader. “There can’t be two captains on one ship,” the authoritarian Traore told community leaders in Ouahigouya in the north of the country on Thursday. The prolonged absence of two leading… Read More

Prosecutors on Tuesday showed a body camera video with singer D4vd telling sheriff’s deputies who were investigating a missing person’s report that he had only met then-13-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez once in person, and he did not know she was a minor. Prosecutors allege that D4vd, whose legal name is David Burke, who was 18 at the time, had already… Read More

Wildfires in Algeria have killed six people, the interior ministry announced, with several fires still raging across the North African country gripped by a heatwave. “In the wake of the fires that affected certain provinces of the country in recent days, six deaths have been registered,” the ministry said in a statement. It said it had ordered the provinces to… Read More

Cuts to a major U.S.-funded AIDS program have forced clinics to close, staff to lose their jobs, and HIV services to collapse across dozens of countries, according to a report released Tuesday. The report was produced by amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research. It examines the fallout from disruptions to PEPFAR, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. Launched in… Read More

The head of UNAIDS is calling for what she describes as a “radical change” in how Africa funds healthcare, following deep cuts to international aid. Speaking at the African Union health summit in Ghana, Executive Director Winnie Byanyima said African governments must take greater responsibility for financing their own health systems after major donors, including the United States and several… Read More