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October 02, 2024
Sudan army vows to fight on despite peace efforts
POLOKWANE — The case of two black women who were allegedly shot and fed to pigs by a white farmer and two of his workers has caused outrage in South Africa.Maria Makgato, 45, and Lucia Ndlovu, 34, were allegedly looking for food on the farm near Polokwane in South Africa’s northern Limpopo province in August when they were shot.Their bodies were then alleged to have been given to pigs in an apparent attempt to dispose of the evidence.A court is now to decide whether to grant bail to farm owner Zachariah Johannes Olivier, 60, and his employees Adrian de Wet, 19, and William Musora, 50, ahead of their murder trial.The three men have not yet been asked to enter a plea in court, which will happen when the trial begins at a later date.At previous hearings, protesters have demonstrated...
October 02, 2024
Outrage over South Africa farmer accused of feeding women to pigs
October 02, 2024
Dozens dead, 61 missing as two boats sink off Djibouti
September 30, 2024
Zookeeper mauled to death by lion in Nigeria
September 26, 2024
Sudan army launches major attack on capital Khartoum
September 25, 2024
Sudan’s jailed former leader Omar al-Bashir is taken to hospital
September 25, 2024
Acid attack and abductions: Tanzania's poisonous politics
GENEVA — Starvation in war-stricken Sudan "is almost everywhere", the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has told the BBC's Today program after visiting the country."The situation in Sudan is very alarming... the massive displacement - it's now the largest in the world, and, of course, famine," director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.He said 12 million people were already displaced, adding that attention in the global community to Sudan was "really low" and race was a factor.Thousands of people have been killed since a civil war broke out in April 2023 between Sudan's army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF)."Imagine: destruction, displacement, diseases everywhere, and now famine," Dr Tedros told the BBC.He...
September 17, 2024
Starvation in war-hit Sudan 'almost everywhere': WHO
September 11, 2024
Medics plead for vaccines in DR Congo's mpox battleground
September 11, 2024
Anguish as dozens die in Senegal shipwreck
