KwaZulu-Natal Finance MEC Francois Rodgers has given the troubled eNdumeni Local Municipality, near Dundee in northern KwaZulu-Natal, until 31 July 2026 to pass its 2026/27 budget, or face dissolution.

The Electoral Commission of SA is anticipating that the number of candidates standing for election in the 4 November polls could surpass the 100 000 mark.

Diplomats from around the world are gathering at United Nations headquarters in New York on Friday, to decide whether to permanently remove from office the embattled chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.

The Malian government has rejected reports of US intervention in the fight against the jihadist group JNIM, saying the claims are false.

Local residents said the Allied Democratic Forces, an Islamic State-allied extremist group known by its acronym ADF, attacked the Kikundo mining site, near the border between North Kivu and Ituri provinces on Wednesday.

Guinea Bissau’s junta had freed opposition leader Domingos Simões Pereira after a court ordered he should be allowed to travel to Portugal for medical treatment.

Lawyers for jailed Tunisian opposition leader Rached Ghannouchi Thursday said his health was "critical" after reports the 85-year-old fainted and suffered severe exhaustion while barred from family visits.

Lawyers for jailed Tunisian opposition leader Rached Ghannouchi Thursday said his health was "critical" after reports the 85-year-old fainted and suffered severe exhaustion while barred from family visits.

The president had sought to stay the inquiry pending a legal review of a report finding he had a case to answer in the 'Farmgate' scandal.

In a makeshift tent covered in a torn tarp, Zakaria Hassan tried to make his baby son more comfortable after they fled fighting near the Central African Republic's border with Sudan