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This is believed to be the first time Gen Burhan has set foot in the presidential palace since the start of the war almost two years ago
Army in full control of Khartoum, Sudan military leader says
PORT SUDAN — Sudan's military leader, Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, has visited the presidential palace in Khartoum, after landing at the city's international airport, just hours after it was recaptured by the army.Surrounded by cheering soldiers at the venue — a significant symbol of absolute power and sovereignty — Burhan declared the capital "free" of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces."Khartoum is free, it's done," he said.This is believed to be the first time Burhan has set foot in the presidential palace since the start of the war almost two years ago.The military-led government was forced to move to Port Sudan on the Red Sea after the RSF seized control of the capital early in the war.Earlier, an army commander told the BBC that his troops had...
March 27, 2025

Army in full control of Khartoum, Sudan military leader says

Cyril Ramaphosa
South African president rejects Trump's claims of Afrikaner persecution
JOHANNESBURG — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has strongly dismissed claims that white citizens are being persecuted in South Africa, calling the allegations a "completely false narrative".His comments come amid accusations from US President Donald Trump, tech billionaire Elon Musk and white minority groups, that South Africa's government is enabling violence against the white Afrikaner population.In his weekly address on Monday, Ramaphosa urged South Africans not to let "events beyond our shores divide us or turn us against each other," and called for a rejection of the "completely false narrative" that any racial or cultural group is being persecuted in the country.Although Ramaphosa did not name individuals, his remarks were a direct rebuttal...
March 26, 2025

South African president rejects Trump's claims of Afrikaner persecution

Prince Harry meeting children at a Lesotho children's home in 2006
Harry leaves African charity he co-founded
LONDON — The Duke of Sussex has announced his resignation as a patron of Sentebale, a Lesotho-based British charity which he co-founded, after a row between the trustees and the chair of its board.Prince Harry said he had stepped down alongside co-founder and fellow patron Prince Seeiso of Lesotho and Sentebale's board of trustees after Dr Sophie Chandauka's relationship with the trustees "broke down beyond repair" and she sued the charity after she was asked to step down.Dr Chandauka has reported the charity to the UK Charity Commission. She said she had "blown the whistle" about "abuse of power" and "harassment", and said her work was "in pursuit of the integrity of the organisation".The Charity Commission says it is "aware...
March 26, 2025

Harry leaves African charity he co-founded

Army spokesperson Nabil Abdallah made the announcement of the capture of te palace on state TV
Sudan army recaptures presidential palace after two years of war
PORT SUDAN — The Sudanese army says it has recaptured the presidential palace in the capital Khartoum from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) after almost two years of fighting.Reclaiming the east African country's seat of power marks a major victory for the army, which has been making significant advances against the RSF in recent months.But it is still a long way from ending the war entirely, with large parts of the country still under the RSF's control.It is also unclear whether the battle for Khartoum is over: an RSF statement said its fighters were still in the area."Our valiant forces are still present in the vicinity of the area," read an RSF statement issued on the messaging service Telegram.RSF said a drone strike it launched on the palace complex left...
March 21, 2025

Sudan army recaptures presidential palace after two years of war

Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah is Namibia's first female president
Namibia swears in first female president
WINDHOEK — Namibia's new president was sworn in on Friday to lead a country facing high rates of unemployment, inequality and poverty.And she will be dealing with it with the additional burden of being only Africa's second-ever directly elected female president and Namibia's first female head of state."If things go well then it will be seen as a good example," Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah told BBC's Africa Daily podcast. "But if anything then happens, like it can happen in any administration under men, there are also those who would rather say: 'Look at women!'"The 72-year-old won November's election with a 58% share of the vote.Nandi-Ndaitwah has been a long-term loyalist of the South West Africa People's Organization (Swapo) – which has...
March 21, 2025

Namibia swears in first female president

Many young people sacrificed their lives to fight the racist system of apartheid
Ghosts of apartheid haunt South Africa as compensation anger brews
CAPE TOWN — It was late at night on 10 December 1987 when prison officers had woken Mzolisi Dyasi in his cell in South Africa's Eastern Cape province.He remembers the bumpy drive to a hospital morgue where he was asked to identify the bodies of his pregnant girlfriend, his cousin and a fellow anti-apartheid fighter.In response, he had dropped to one knee, raised his fist in the air, and attempted to shout "amandla!" ("power" in Zulu), in an act of defiance.But the word caught in his throat as he was "totally broken", Dyasi tells the BBC, recalling the sight of his loved ones under the cold, bright lights.Four decades on, Dyasi sleeps with the lights on to ward off memories of the physical and mental torture he suffered during his four years in prison.He...
March 19, 2025

Ghosts of apartheid haunt South Africa as compensation anger brews

Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan says the system is trying silence her after she made sexual harassment allegations
Nigerian Senate is run like a cult,  says suspended MP 
ABUJA — A Nigerian senator who alleged she was sexually harassed by one of the country's top politicians has told the BBC the Senate operates like a "cult".A fortnight ago, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan was suspended for six months after submitting a petition saying she had been harassed by Senate President Godswill Akpabio, which he denies.His office also rejected the cult comparison — the latest twist in a row that has gripped Nigeria, raising questions about gender equality in the socially conservative nation.Akpoti-Uduaghan said she was being punished for speaking out against the system and that she now feared for her and her two-year-old's safety as her security detail had been stripped."The Nigerian Senate operates like a cult. The Senate president runs the...
March 19, 2025

Nigerian Senate is run like a cult,  says suspended MP 

South Africa's Ebrahim Rasool is an experienced politician and had been serving his second stint as ambassador in the US
The expelled envoy at the heart of the latest US-South Africa row
JOHANNESBURG — As a veteran of the anti-apartheid struggle and himself a victim of the inequities of that racist system of government, Ebrahim Rasool was always unlikely to mince his words when it came to assessing the new US administration.But in a message to family and friends, South Africa's top envoy in Washington sounded almost relaxed about the diplomatic ructions that he had caused.Soon after it was announced at the weekend that he was going to be expelled from the US, Ambassador Rasool wrote that he and his family were "all packed up and looking forward to returning to South Africa" and said he was leaving the US with "no regrets".On Friday, his prepared remarks on the new government in the US were delivered in a thoughtful, measured manner – with no...
March 18, 2025

The expelled envoy at the heart of the latest US-South Africa row

The Sanae IV research station in Antarctica where the alleged assault occurred
Scientists at Antarctic base rocked by alleged assault
JOHANNESBURG — A group of scientists due to work together for months at a remote Antarctic research station has been rocked after a member of the team was accused of assault.About 10 researchers typically stay at the South African-run base, which sits about 170km (about 105 miles) from the edge of the ice shelf and is difficult to reach.But a spokesperson for the South African government told the BBC "there was an assault" at the station, following earlier allegations of inappropriate behavior from inside the camp.In a further message seen by the BBC, the South African environment ministry said it was responding to the concerns with "utmost urgency".South Africa's Sunday Times, which was first to report the story, said members of the team had pleaded to be...
March 18, 2025

Scientists at Antarctic base rocked by alleged assault

Mekelle, a key city in northern Ethiopia, is still reeling from the two-year conflict
Rival forces seize mayor's office in key Ethiopian town amid fears of new conflict
MEKELLE — A dissident faction of the main political party in Ethiopia's northern region of Tigray has seized control of key offices and a radio station in the regional capital, Mekelle, amid growing fears of a fresh conflict.It follows a deepening power struggle within the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), which has raised concerns of a return to civil war.One Mekelle resident told the BBC that people were withdrawing money from their bank accounts, fearing the security situation could deteriorate.On Tuesday, the same faction took control of Adigrat, Tigray's second-largest city.Getachew Reda, president of Tigray's interim administration, has accused the rival group, led by Debretsion Gebremichael, of attempting to forcefully remove him from office.Getachew became...
March 14, 2025

Rival forces seize mayor's office in key Ethiopian town amid fears of new conflict

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