At a correctional facility in Johannesburg, South Africa’s largest city, visitors are greeted by something unexpected: an art gallery.
The exhibition of inmates’ artwork is part of the country’s effort to reduce repeat offending through rehabilitation programs behind bars.

More than 300 people were arrested during protests in Nairobi on Thursday, police say, as Kenya marked two years since a landmark Gen Z uprising.

The Nigerian Senate on Wednesday approved a bill to allow states to have their own police forces, paving the way for a major reform that would reshape the policing structure of the conflict-racked nation.

The three suspects appeared in a Johannesburg court on Thursday for the mass shooting in which 13 people died and 14 others were injured.

At least 101 million Europeans were expected to experience temperatures of over 35C on Thursday, in a punishing and increasingly deadly heatwave hotter than weather in parts of Africa.

They will begin next week in the DR Congo to see whether two antivirals can help reduce mortality in patients with the rare Bundibugyo strain of the virus.

A Paris court has ordered French oil giant TotalEnergies to report the environmental consequences of emissions from its oil and gas products and explain how it plans to address them.

As pledges of aid pour in from around the world, acting President Delcy Rodríguez has declared a state of emergency.

New images from La Guaira on 25 June revealed widespread destruction after twin earthquakes struck Venezuela’s Caribbean coast, damaging buildings, roads and key public infrastructure.

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The sites at Cyrene and Apollonia were first targeted by jihadists following the fall of Muammar Gaddafi and then ravaged by Storm Daniel in 2023.

A British Airways pilot has been sentenced to more than eight years in prison after travelling across England to rape a 12-year-old girl he contacted through Instagram.

Kenyan police shut off traffic on key routes around Nairobi on Thursday, hoping to prevent protests marking two years since a landmark Gen Z uprising. This year many braved the streets again, but fled as shots were fired and tear gas deployed.

Brent crude was trading at around $72 a barrel on Thursday morning, the price it was at the day before the launch of attacks on Iran.

On stage, performers transformed ordinary life experiences into spontaneous theatre, drawing smiles, reflection, and sometimes sadness from the audience

Two years after Kenya’s 2024 Gen Z tax revolt shook the nation, protesters gathered in Nairobi on 25 June to seek justice for victims and press for greater government accountability.

The re-launch of the non-stop passenger route comes at TAAG implements a fleet modernisation and expansion plan.

March and March leader, Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma, said the government should be blamed for any potential lawlessness during 30 June nationwide protests.

South Africa advanced to the knockout phase of the World Cup for the first time with a 1-0 victory over South Korea on Wednesday night

A powerful heatwave swept across Europe, stretching from France to Spain and Belgium and pushing temperatures towards 39C, raising concerns about public safety and pressure on infrastructure.

Images showing cracked walls, collapsed ceiling panels and debris strewn across parts of Simón Bolívar International Airport highlighted the scale of damage after two powerful earthquakes struck Venezuela on 24 June 2026.

A mix of Iranian and Mexican supporters turned out to say farewell, looking to get a glimpse of the players and an autograph from them as they departed

Zimbabwe’s Senate on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved controversial constitutional amendments that would keep President Emmerson Mnangagwa in office until 2030, giving the changes full parliamentary support after earlier consent from the lower house

The global risk from the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo remains low, the head of the World Health Organization said on Wednesday.

Sexual violence has being used “consistently as a tactic and weapon of war” since the conflict in Sudan erupted three years ago. That’s the finding of a new report by the United Nations Human Rights Office.

Kenyan prosecutors said Tuesday they will charge a number of students with murder of 16 schoolmates in the burning of a dormitory in late May that shocked the east African country.

At a gold mine in Mongbwalu, necessity is forcing people to put aside their fear of the virus and carry on working.

Angola is investigating a former general challenging President João Lourenço for leadership of the country’s ruling MPLA.

It authorises new steps to ensure that those who commit crimes against peacekeepers face justice.

Defence lawyers in the trial of Central African Republic’s former president, François Bozizé, on Tuesday denounced what they say are procedural irregularities.

The decree prohibits citizens of Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia from entering through all land, sea, and air ports.

France on Wednesday announced its first confirmed case of Ebola identified on its territory, a doctor back from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which is fighting a major outbreak.

In a new report, it said violence against women and girls remains widespread despite repeated government promises to do something about it.

Kenya has signed a $1.2 billion deal with China Road and Bridge Corporation to expand Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, the country’s transport minister said on Tuesday.

A Tunisian court on Tuesday upheld an eight-year prison sentence slapped on anti-racism activist Saadia Mosbah for financial misconduct, two of her lawyers said

England defender Djed Spence appeared to be the only player in the squad who did not shake Thomas Partey’s hand before England’s World Cup clash with Ghana in Boston.

The gathering in Belgium formed part of the Kouman x Brussels initiative, a cultural project bridging West Africa and Europe.

The US decision to withdraw all of its HIV and Aids funding from South Africa is likely to cost lives, the head of the UN’s HIV agency has warned.

The 29-year-old man died during a march against illegal immigrants at the Jika Joe Informal Settlement in Pietermaritzburg.

Niger has officially submitted its request to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC), the Hague-based tribunal said on Tuesday, nine months after announcing the move alongside allies Mali and Burkina Faso