"As the passengers drowned, villagers nearby rushed to the scene and managed to rescue about 50 at first, Lukpada said, describing early efforts to rescue the passengers as slow and “very difficult.”
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"We lost our father, our grandfather" says one member of the SDF, before adding that he was the person who taught Cameroonians "what is democracy".
Climate activists denounce COP28 president and head of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, Sultan al-Jaber, ahead of meeting in Dubai later in the year.
The United States has updated its travel advice for Uganda, following the promulgation in May of the "Anti-Homosexuality Law 2023", considered to be one of the most repressive in the world, according to a note published Monday evening by the State Depa...
Some 80 followers of a cult in eastern Uganda who travelled to Ethiopia in February at the call of a pastor to find salvation by fasting to death have been repatriated, the Ugandan authorities said on Tuesday.
The United Nations said on Tuesday it was "deeply concerned" by developments in the human rights situation in Senegal, and sees "a dark precedent" in the use of firearms by security forces against demonstrators.
South Africa's ruling party, ANC, announced on Monday the expulsion of former secretary-general, Ace Magashule, for misconduct and corruption
Thirty-nine opponents were charged on Monday in Zimbabwe for the alleged "demolition" of the offices of the party that has been in power since 1980, as tension mounts in the country less than three months before the elections.
On Monday, the head of US diplomacy Antony Blinken called on Tunisia, a country strangled by debt and grappling with migration issues, to accept an IMF reform plan in order to avoid economic collapse.
“Binance Nigeria Limited is hereby directed to immediately stop soliciting Nigerian investors in any form whatsoever,” stated the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Friday. The statement added that the company was not registered or regulated, ...
