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September 04, 2025
Dozens die after boat hits tree stump in Nigerian river
MBEYA — In the wake of his abduction on a highway in Tanzania's main city Dar es Salaam, social media activist Edgar Mwakabela, better known as Sativa, says he came close to death.He describes in an interview with the BBC how, after kidnapping him on 23 June last year, his captors interrogated him and then ferried him across the country to the remote Katavi region near the Congolese border, more than 1,000km (600 miles) away.Sativa says he was handcuffed, blindfolded and brutally beaten, including being struck repeatedly on his head, back and legs with the flat side of a machete."It was extremely painful."He tells the BBC that those who abducted him wanted to know who was facilitating his activism, and why he was criticising the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party, in...
September 03, 2025
'A bullet went through my skull': Tanzania abduction survivor
August 26, 2025
Botswana declares national public health emergency
August 20, 2025
DR Congo rebels killed 140 civilians despite peace process, rights group says
August 19, 2025
Burkina Faso expels top UN official over child rights report
August 14, 2025
'Our children are dying': Rare footage shows plight of civilians in besieged Sudan city
August 12, 2025
Dozens killed in attack on Sudan camp for people who had fled war
BAMAKO — Dozens of soldiers have been arrested in Mali accused of plotting to topBple the country's military leaders, sources say.The wave of arrests, which reportedly went on overnight and are expected to continue, reflect increased tensions within the military government, with reports that an insurgency in the north is gaining ground. The authorities have not commented on the arrests.Initial reports indicated that Gen Abass Dembele, the former governor of the Mopti region and Gen Nema Sagara, one of the few women at the highest levels of the Malian army, were among those detained.However, a source close to Gen Dembele told the BBC that neither of them had been arrested.The source, who confirmed the ongoing arrests, told a BBC reporter in Bamako that he had just left Gen...
August 11, 2025
Dozens of Malian soldiers arrested over alleged coup plot
ACCRA — Ghana's ministers of defence and environment have died in a military helicopter crash in the central Ashanti region, along with six other people, a government spokesperson says.Defence Minister Edward Omane Boamah and Environment, Science and Technology Minister Ibrahim Murtala Muhammed, 50, were killed in the crash, which Chief of Staff Julius Debrah described as a "national tragedy".Earlier, the Ghana Armed Forces said the Z9 helicopter, which was carrying three crew and five passengers, had gone "off the radar".It had taken off from the capital, Accra, at 09:12 local time (and GMT) and was heading to the town of Obuasi for an event to tackle illegal mining.Images purportedly showing the charred remains of the helicopter are circulating on social...
August 07, 2025
Two Ghanaian ministers die in helicopter crash, along with six others
August 06, 2025
'All sides' to blame in Prince Harry charity row, watchdog finds
