In a historic milestone for space exploration, NASA’s Artemis II astronauts are heading back to Earth after a groundbreaking journey around the far side of the Moon, marking humanity’s return to deep space since the Apollo era.
Nigeria’s Dangote refinery, Africa’s largest, is stepping into a critical role as fuel and fertiliser shortages ripple across the continent amid disruptions linked to the Iran war.
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[ACSS] Increasingly capable and organized militant Islamist groups in the Sahel, Somalia, and the Lake Chad Basin continue to expand their reach and lethality.
[The Conversation Africa] Fences are among conservation's most controversial interventions.
Egypt has released a well-known activist and leading member of the pro-democracy 'April 6th' rights movement that helped to prompt the nation’s uprising in 2011, Sherif Al-Rouby.
Burkina Faso's government has denounced a report alleging that more than 1,800 civilians have been killed since the junta seized power three years ago as 'false'. The report was published by Human Rights Watch and based on open source information.
In tonight's edition: Dozens of people have been killed in multiple attacks in Nigeria over the Easter weekend. Also, disruption to shipping routes linked to the Iran war has left about 8 million kilograms of tea stuck in warehouses in Kenya. And in the DRC, tens of thousands of jubilant fans welcomed their football team as heroes after they qualified for the World Cup for the first time in 52 years.
[WHO] The World Health Organization (WHO) today calls on people everywhere to renew their commitment to working together and supporting science as the twin engines driving better health, under the World Health Day 2026 theme: "Together for health. Stand with science." The campaign marks the anniversary of WHO's founding on 7 April 1948, launching a year-long public health campaign.