Africa

Saulos Chilima was “a good man, a devoted father and husband, a patriotic citizen who served his country with distinction,” said Malawi's President Lazarus Chakwera.

Under Uganda's new Anti-Homosexuality Act, same-sex intercourse is punishable by life in prison, while so-called aggravated homosexuality may lead to a death sentence.

The country’s largest labor unions are seeking a salary increase amid the worst cost of living crisis in decades.

The statement Friday comes more than a year into a war between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

South Africans were set to wait with bated breath to see whether their country, Africa’s most advanced economy, was about to see momentous change.

“A lot of opposition is seeing that this is perhaps the first opportunity that they’ve had for 30 years for a more pluralistic politics,” one analyst told NBC News.

If the ANC loses its majority for the first time in 30 years, Ramaphosa will be unlikely to see out a second term, some political analysts say.

The Constitutional Court sentenced Zuma to 15 months in prison in 2021 for contempt for refusing to testify at a judicial inquiry into government corruption.

“So many people trapped in a building like that is like searching for a needle in a haystack,” said the disaster management chief.

Since January, Congo has reported more than 4,500 suspected mpox cases and nearly 300 deaths, numbers that have roughly tripled from the same period last year.

Baby turtles have to fend for themselves from the moment they hatch on beaches and make their way to the ocean.