Nigerian authorities have secured the release of 100 kidnapped schoolchildren taken by gunmen from a Catholic school last month, a UN source and local media said Sunday, though the fate of the 165 students and staff thought to remain in captivity remains unclear

Gunmen stormed a hostel in South Africa’s capital Pretoria yesterday, killing 11 people including a three‑year‑old child at a site police said was illegally selling alcohol.

YouTube yesterday attacked Australia’s looming social media ban for under-16s as rushed, but the government called the policy a shield to protect children from “predatory” algorithms.

Australia will from December 10 ban users under the age of 16 from world's most popular social media platforms

G20 leaders gathered in South Africa yesterday hailed multilateralism -- even as they struggled to adapt to a changing world order beset by go-it-alone US policies, wars and deepening geopolitical rivalries.

303 children, 12 teachers were abducted by gunmen from St Mary's Co-educational School

The United Arab Emirates said on Saturday it will invest $1 billion to expand AI infrastructure and AI-enabled services across Africa, with the aim of helping countries meet national development priorities.

Gunmen have kidnapped more than 300 students and teachers in one of the largest mass kidnappings in Nigeria, a Christian group said yesterday, as security fears mounted in Africa’s most populous nation.

Nigeria is still scarred by the kidnapping of nearly 300 girls by Boko Haram jihadists

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Monday was firmly opposed to the suggestion of co-hosting

As if deadly snakes, spiders and sharks were not enough, Australia now has a new creepy critter: a “lucifer” bee with devil-like horns.

President Donald Trump said no US officials would attend the G20 summit in South Africa, reviving debunked claims of white Afrikaners being systematically “killed and slaughtered” in the country.

No details of US truce proposal have been made public yet

Earlier, Trump claimed that thousands of Christians were being killed in Nigeria

US president says Nigeria has not done enough to stop killings of Christians

Thousands of civilians are feared trapped and in imminent danger in the Sudanese city of El-Fasher after its fall to paramilitaries, Doctors Without Borders said yesterday, as Germany’s top diplomat described the situation there as “apocalyptic”.

Nineteen people have been rescued and an unknown number are still missing

The RSF has dismissed past accusations of abuses, and have made counter-accusations against the Sudanese army

Account is latest sign of widespread abuses

The WHO said the hospital was on Sunday "attacked for the fourth time in a month, killing one nurse and injuring three other health workers"