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US officials say the deal is the first in a series of agreements with developing countries
Kenya signs landmark health deal with US despite data fears
NAIROBI — Kenya has signed a historic five-year health agreement with the US, the first such pact since Donald Trump's administration overhauled its foreign aid program.The $2.5bn (£1.9bn) deal is aimed at combating infectious diseases in Kenya, with similar agreements expected to be rolled out in other African countries aligned with Trump's broader foreign policy goals.The government-to-government deal aims to boost transparency and accountability but has raised fears it could give the US real-time access to critical health databases, including sensitive patient information.Kenya's Health Minister Aden Duale sought to allay such fears, saying "only de-identified, aggregated data" would be shared.On his first day in office in January, Trump announced a freeze on foreign...
December 05, 2025

Kenya signs landmark health deal with US despite data fears

The daughter of former South African President Jacob Zuma, Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla attends the uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) press conference at the party's headquarters in Durban on November 28
Daughter of South Africa’s former leader accused of luring men to fight for Russia
JOHANNESBURG — Family ties may become strained for former South African President Jacob Zuma after his eldest daughter accused her half-sister of deceiving 17 men – half of whom are reportedly relatives – into fighting for Russia in Ukraine.The controversy highlights the growing recruitment of Africans into Russian military forces due to a shortage of Russian recruits as well as the close ties between Moscow and veterans of the African National Congress. Zuma previously belonged to the political party, which originated as a liberation movement that fought for democratic rule in South Africa.Zuma, 83, stepped down as president in 2018 in the wake of a series of corruption scandals and was expelled from the party he once led in 2024. He received military training in the Soviet Union...
December 05, 2025

Daughter of South Africa’s former leader accused of luring men to fight for Russia

Mohammed Badaru Abubakar
Nigeria's defense minister resigns amid kidnapping crisis
ABUJA — Nigeria's Minister of Defense, Mohammed Badaru Abubakar, has resigned from his position with immediate effect for health reasons, the president's office has said.The 63-year-old's departure coincides with a period of heightened security challenges across Nigeria, with the government under pressure to deal with a spate of mass kidnappings.Last week, the office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights reported that at least 402 people, mostly schoolchildren, had been kidnapped since mid-November.In the latest sign of the insecurity, gunmen abducted at least 20 people, including a Christian pastor, a Muslim bride and her bridesmaids, in two separate raids in the north on Sunday.Some 250 schoolchildren and 12 teachers from a Catholic school in central Niger state...
December 02, 2025

Nigeria's defense minister resigns amid kidnapping crisis

Abdulqadir Abdullah Ali says RSF fighters were shooting at the people fleeing el-Fasher with live ammunition
'I saw them driving over injured people' — the terrifying escape from war in Sudan
AL-DABBAH, Sudan — Abdulqadir Abdullah Ali suffered serious nerve damage to his leg during the long siege of the Sudanese city of el-Fasher because he could not get medicine for his diabetes.The 62-year-old walks with a heavy limp, but he was so panicked when fighters from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) finally captured the city in the western Darfur region, he felt no pain as he ran."The morning the RSF came there were bullets, many bullets, and explosives going off," he says."People were out of control [with fear], they ran out of their houses, and everyone ran in different directions, the father, the son, the daughter — running."The fall of el-Fasher after an 18-month siege is a particularly brutal chapter in Sudan's civil war.The BBC has travelled to a tent camp...
December 01, 2025

'I saw them driving over injured people' — the terrifying escape from war in Sudan

A loaded car drives on the Kanji-Agwarra road, Niger State, Nigeria, 25 November 2025. (EPA)
Nigeria disputes claims jihadist groups behind recent mass kidnappings
ABUJA — The Nigerian government says Boko Haram and Islamic State in West Africa Province (Iswap) are responsible for a recent surge in mass abductions across north-western and central Nigeria, but analysts dispute the claim, arguing that the attacks were carried out by local criminal gangs known as “bandits.” This marks the first time the government has publicly attributed the kidnappings to jihadist groups, though it offered no evidence to support the assessment. Kidnapping for ransom has become widespread in recent years, involving a mix of armed gangs, jihadist factions, and separatist groups. While ransoms remain illegal, officials have long been accused of covertly paying them. Three mass abductions have taken place in the past two weeks:• 17 November — Kebbi state: 25...
November 29, 2025

Nigeria disputes claims jihadist groups behind recent mass kidnappings

Many of the bandits who are part of the criminal gangs of the north-west hide out in forested areas
Kidnap gangs, Islamist radicals and separatists wreaking havoc in Nigeria
LAGOS — Nigeria is currently grappling with a spate of mass abductions. But the vast country — bigger than France and Germany combined — also faces many other security challenges.Recent attempts by US President Donald Trump and his supporters to frame the insecurity purely as the persecution of Christians overlooks the complexity of Africa's most-populous nation.There are more than 250 ethnic groups in Nigeria, which is roughly divided into a mainly Muslim north, a largely Christian south, with intermingling in the middle — and the government says people of all faiths have been victims of attacks.There are criminal gangs in the north-west, an Islamist insurgency in the north-east, clashes over land in central regions and separatist unrest in the south-east — leaving the...
November 28, 2025

Kidnap gangs, Islamist radicals and separatists wreaking havoc in Nigeria

Gen Horta N'Tam, centre, becomes the transitional head of state for one year
General named new Guinea-Bissau leader a day after coup
BISSAU — An army general has been sworn in as Guinea-Bissau's new head of state a day after an apparent coup.Gen Horta N'Tam becomes the transitional president for a period of one year. He took the oath on Thursday, in brief and muted proceedings at army headquarters.N'Tam, who until a day earlier had been head of the presidential guard, barely cracked a smile during his swearing-in or while stood outside flanked by officers while for cameras.Some civil society groups in Guinea-Bissau have accused outgoing President Umaro Sissoco Embaló of masterminding a "simulated coup" against himself with the help of the military, saying it was a ruse to block election results from coming out in case he lost."This manoeuvre aims to prevent the publication of the electoral results...
November 28, 2025

General named new Guinea-Bissau leader a day after coup

Ramaphosa said the US skipped the G20 leaders summit out of its own volition
South Africa hits back after Trump says US won't invite it for G20 next year
JOHANNESBURG — South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa has described as "regrettable" the announcement by US President Donald Trump that South Africa would not be invited to take part in next year's G20 summit in Florida.In a social media post, Trump said South Africa had refused to hand over the G20 presidency to a US embassy representative at last week's summit in Johannesburg."Therefore, at my direction, South Africa will NOT be receiving an invitation to the 2026 G20, which will be hosted in the Great City of Miami, Florida next year."Members of the G20 – a gathering of the world's biggest economies - do not need an invite but can possibly be barred through visa restrictions.Trump boycotted the Johannesburg summit because of a widely discredited claim that...
November 27, 2025

South Africa hits back after Trump says US won't invite it for G20 next year

Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema
Stone-hurling anger unnerves Zambia's president
LUSAKA — Zambia's President Hakainde Hichilema has come out fighting after a bruising month that saw him come under attack by stone throwers as he was trying to make a speech.Video clips of him crouching and then being whisked away from a rally in the Copperbelt province shocked Zambians and many people, irrespective of their political affiliation, condemned what happened.But with nine months to go until elections and a run for a second term, the president is under pressure.On Tuesday, in his first press conference for 18 months, Hichilema set out to defend his record and laid out his achievements on the key issues of the economy and power generation."This level of hatred is shocking, you can see and even touch the venom," he said, while appealing for Zambians to love each other.But...
November 27, 2025

Stone-hurling anger unnerves Zambia's president

President Embaló was elected in December 2019
Soldiers seize power in Guinea-Bissau and detain the president
BISSAU — A group of military officers say they have seized control of Guinea-Bissau amid reports that the president, Umaro Sissoco Embaló, has been arrested.Shortly after gunshots were heard in the capital, Bissau, government sources told the BBC that Embaló had been detained.The officers then appeared on state TV, saying they had suspended the electoral process, as the West African nation awaited the outcome of Sunday's presidential election.They said they were acting to thwart a plot by unnamed politicians who had "the support of a well-known drug baron" to destabilise the country, and announced the closure of its borders and imposed a night-time curfew.Sandwiched between Senegal and Guinea, the coup-prone country is known as a notorious drug-trafficking hub where the military...
November 27, 2025

Soldiers seize power in Guinea-Bissau and detain the president

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