Some families have survived in those harsh conditions for months. Among them, 17-year-old Doha and her brothers and sisters reached Tawila after a three-day long journey from El Fasher by foot and donkey cart, exhausted and frightened. Home in the key city of Darfur had become too dangerous. Food was scarce. Health facilities were destroyed. School, once the centre of Doha’s days, was no more. “This girl caught our eye because she was smiling,” said Eva Hinds, spokesperson for the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Sudan to UN News. “And she so desperately wanted to speak English. I’m always so…
Author: Montage Africa
Serving in the South African government for the first time, the Democratic Alliance (DA) – perceived as primarily representing racial minorities – portrays itself as a squeaky clean party but has suffered a major blow after its leader John Steenhuisen became engulfed in several scandals. This forced him to announce he will step down as party leader, opening the way for a potentially divisive contest between a black and white candidate to succeed him. Race remains a major faultline in South Africa. The ending, 32 years ago, of the legalised form of racism, apartheid, that came with the rise to…
Three South Africans have been charged with murder following the killing of an e-hailing taxi driver, the manner of whose death, captured on dashcam footage, has shocked many people. A video shared widely on social media shows a man and a woman tussling with the driver, Isaac Satlat, who they appeared to be robbing. Satlat tries to fight back before one of the passengers appears to strangle him until he goes limp. The trio, who were arrested over the weekend, were in court in Pretoria on Monday and have since abandoned their bail applications. They were not asked to comment…
Reports say at least 20 people were killed on Saturday in the northern town of Titao, Burkina Faso, in attacks claimed by JNIM – an Islamist militant group linked to al-Qaeda. Among the dead were seven Ghanaians “burnt beyond recognition” who have yet to be identified, said Ghana’s Interior Minister Mohammed Muntaka Mubarak. They were part of a team of tomato traders on a supply lorry targeted by the jihadists. Road access to the area remains blocked, according to Ghanaian officials trying to evacuate other citizens who survived, making it impossible for embassy staff to visit the area. A spate…
Police in Malawi are searching for nine suspects who escaped from custody after being caught allegedly smuggling charcoal in a hearse disguised as part of a funeral procession. Acting on a tip-off, forestry officials intercepted the vehicle at a roadblock near the main city of Blantyre. Inside, they found an empty coffin placed over several bags of charcoal, with an estimated value of $1,700 (£1,200), the Reuters news agency reported. But a manager from the funeral service told the BBC that the hearse driver was returning from seeing a bereaved family when he bought the bags of fuel that were…
Sun King has expanded its offering to underserved consumers across Africa, combining the launch of its own smartphone and solar-powered fridge-freezer with the scale-up of its clean cooking technologies and services. Sun King is known for powering homes and businesses with solar kits delivered through pay-as-you-go financing. The company is now extending that approach to Sun King–designed smartphones, clean cooking solutions, and refrigeration, making essential technologies affordable through small, flexible payments. From pay-as-you-go solar to pay-as-you-go smartphones The company recently launched the Sun King EZ 1, its first smartphone designed for and assembled locally in Africa. Africa’s smartphone economy is…
By Rédaction Africanews Nigeria’s data protection regulator has opened an investigation into Chinese-owned e-commerce platform Temu over suspected violations of the country’s privacy laws. The Nigeria Data Protection Commission (NDPC) said on Tuesday that it is examining how Temu collects, uses and transfers personal data belonging to Nigerian users. The probe follows concerns about possible breaches involving cross-border data transfers, transparency, accountability and compliance with data-minimisation rules. The investigation was ordered by the commission’s National Commissioner and Chief Executive Officer, Vincent Olatunji, who warned that companies found to have broken the law could face penalties under the Nigeria Data Protection…
Nigeria’s foreign ministry has issued an urgent warning over what it describes as the increasing illegal recruitment of its citizens to fight in foreign conflicts. It comes after Ukrainian officials said they found the bodies of two Nigerians who they said were killed in combat last year. Nigeria has not confirmed those deaths but in a statement on Sunday, foreign ministry spokesperson Kimiebi Imomotimi Ebienfa revealed that “several Nigerians who have fallen victim to such unfortunate situations were deployed to combat zones after being misled and coerced into signing military service contracts”. Kenya has issued a similar warning to its…
Mr. Barry Faure, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Diaspora of the Republic of Seychelles, paid a courtesy call on H.E. Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, Chairperson of the African Union Commission, on February 11th at the African Union Headquarters. The Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC) welcomed the Minister and congratulated him on his appointment following the United Seychelles’ success in the recent polls. He reaffirmed the Commission’s commitment to working closely with Seychelles to promote Africa’s shared values, unity, and the comprehensive development agenda of the continent. He recognised Seychelles as a beacon of good governance in the region. The discussions…
More than 6,000 people were killed in just three days when Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) seized the city of el-Fasher last year, according to victims and witnesses cited in a UN report. “It was like a scene out of a horror movie,” recalled one person, who saw bodies thrown into the air as RSF fighters opened fire on 1,000 people sheltering in a university building last October. The report cites evidence of mass killings, summary executions, torture, abductions and sexual violence against civilians. These amount to war crimes and possible crimes against humanity, it says. The RSF has…