Cuba’s Raul Castro made a rare public appearance on Thursday at a celebration marking the centenary of his brother Fidel’s birth. The 95-year-old former president received a standing ovation at the secure event in Havana amid a deepening economic crisis…
In tonight’s programme: Mourners gather in memory of the 44 people killed in Tuesday’s ferry accident on Zimbabwe’s Lake Kariba. Also, ballot counting has started in Zambia, where President Hichilema’s is expected to win a second term. Finally, researchers reckon…
On 1 August Russian drone strikes on a logistics and distribution centre in northern Kharkiv destroyed more than 8 million books, in a war being waged not just at the frontline, but on Ukraine’s culture and identity.
If you know Nigeria’s city of Lagos, you’re surely familiar with the hum of its traffic jams. But a new sound is emerging… or rather, one is disappearing. As soaring fuel prices have hit Nigeria in recent years, some motorists…
Part of the world turned its eyes to the skies this Wednesday. The eclipse was also visible across Africa. In Tabarka, where the phenomenon was most pronounced in Tunisia, 59.06% of the Sun was obscured. The partial eclipse was also…
Kyiv and Moscow have been trading attacks on each other’s grain warehouses, as concerns mount that global food prices could rise as a result. Russia struck Ukraine’s largest grain shipment port on the Danube overnight, causing damage and setting off…
Rescuers in Colombia made a last-ditch effort to locate earthquake survivors early Thursday, as the critical 72-hour window for finding people alive drew to a close. Our journalist Rosa Perez gives us the lastest information.
The drought roasting much of Europe this summer is taking a heavy toll on crops across the continent, from potatoes in the Netherlands to corn in Bosnia. Triodos, a Dutch bank with a focus on sustainability, has warned that this…
The winning country in Eurovision will be ineligible to host the contest the following year if involved in an armed conflict or a “sensitive geopolitical situation” that could impact the safety of the event, organisers said on August 12. The rules for the…
Amid the rubble and debris of Gaza’s bombed-out landscape, beekeepers are rebuilding their livelihoods, handling swarms and collecting what little honey they can from the colonies that survived the war. Ibrahim al-Dabbeh, head of the Cooperative Association of Beekeepers in…