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In "World / Africa"
September 12, 2025
South Sudan’s vice president charged with treason and murder
September 11, 2025
Ghana agrees to accept West Africans deported from US
JOHANNESBURG – South Africa's highest court has ruled that husbands can take the surname of their wives, overturning a law that barred them from doing so.In a victory for two couples who brought the case, the Constitutional Court ruled that the law amounted to gender-based discrimination.Henry van der Merwe was denied the right to take the surname of his wife Jana Jordaan, while Andreas Nicolas Bornman could not hyphenate his surname to include Donnelly, the surname of his wife, Jess Donnelly-Bornman, the public broadcaster, SABC, reports.Parliament will now have to amend the Births and Deaths Registration Act, along with its regulations, for the ruling to take effect.The two couples had argued that the law was archaic and patriarchal, and violated equality rights enshrined in the...
September 11, 2025
South African court rules that men can take wife's surname
September 04, 2025
Dozens die after boat hits tree stump in Nigerian river
MBEYA — In the wake of his abduction on a highway in Tanzania's main city Dar es Salaam, social media activist Edgar Mwakabela, better known as Sativa, says he came close to death.He describes in an interview with the BBC how, after kidnapping him on 23 June last year, his captors interrogated him and then ferried him across the country to the remote Katavi region near the Congolese border, more than 1,000km (600 miles) away.Sativa says he was handcuffed, blindfolded and brutally beaten, including being struck repeatedly on his head, back and legs with the flat side of a machete."It was extremely painful."He tells the BBC that those who abducted him wanted to know who was facilitating his activism, and why he was criticising the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party, in...
September 03, 2025
'A bullet went through my skull': Tanzania abduction survivor
August 26, 2025
Botswana declares national public health emergency
August 20, 2025
DR Congo rebels killed 140 civilians despite peace process, rights group says
August 19, 2025
Burkina Faso expels top UN official over child rights report
August 14, 2025
'Our children are dying': Rare footage shows plight of civilians in besieged Sudan city
August 12, 2025
Dozens killed in attack on Sudan camp for people who had fled war
