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Shadrack Sibiya, who has made no comment, is alleged to have groomed a 16-year-old and raped an 18-year-old.
The BBC goes inside the prison where prisoners were trapped in stifling, cramped conditions.
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Ceuta is on alert. Spanish forces are patrolling the border after fresh calls on social media for migrants to cross from Morocco. The warnings follow a dramatic crisis on July 30 and 31, when more than 70,000 people entered the Spanish territory by swimming around the border fence.
This year’s theme is “Keep the Five Alive”, highlighting the fragile status of the surviving species in Africa and Asia.
Tunisia's summer this year was its hottest on record, the country's weather authority said Tuesday, following multiple heatwaves, water shortages and power cuts
Doyle was best known for reporting on African conflicts in the 1990s and 2000s, notably in Rwanda and Sierra Leone.
The C64 movement had called for a day of protest against a planned constitutional change that could allow 63-year-old President Felix Tshisekedi to seek a third five-year term in office
Cellou Dalein Diallo says this prevented him from travelling to New York where he was due to hold meetings on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.
An unnamed armed group shut a valve on a pipeline from a major Libyan oil field, causing a drop in production, the National Oil Corporation (NOC) said late Monday.
South African ostrich farms are using mechanical pluckers to remove feathers from living birds destined for major luxury fashion brands in techniques that are cruel and painful, animal welfare group World Animal Protection said on Monday.
The meeting discussed how conflicts as well as emerging global challenges such as climate change and artificial intelligence are increasing pressure on multilateralism
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FIFA president Gianni Infantino is proposing a fresh consultation on how football’s world governing body makes major decisions, following intense criticism over an abandoned plan to bring private investment into the World Cup.
Dr Vincent Brown was charged following a seven year British investigation into the 1994 killings.
Noma is a rapidly progressing and often fatal infection of the face and mouth. It begins with gum inflammation in malnourished children living in polluted environments and quickly spreads to destroy soft tissues and bones. It mostly affects 2- to 6-year-old children, especially in poor communities.
The United States has agreed to return 2.5 million dollars to The Gambia - the proceeds of the sale of a property belonging to the country’s former president Yahya Jammeh.
A former commander of The Gambia’s notorious “Junglers” paramilitary unit has appeared before a military court in Banjul, facing charges of desertion.
The outbreak has now affected 63 health zones with an overall case fatality rate of 48.2 per cent.
South Africa's most successful Olympian Tatjana Smith explains why she has reversed her decision to retire from competitive swimming.
Nearly 130,000 people have been displaced across seven governorates in Yemen due to escalating insecurity, with many of them having been displaced multiple times, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Monday.
The 18 men accused of involvement in the 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse were extradited to the Unted States over the weekend.
