South Africa appointed its first female chief justice on Thursday, July 25. President Cyril Ramaphosa named Mandisa Maya, the current deputy chief justice, as the country's new most senior judge. Her term is due to start on Sept. 1, when she will replace Chief Justice Raymond Zondo as the head of the apex Constitutional Court. Zondo is retiri...

 In the Egyptian city of Alexandria, summer visitors are flocking to the 19th book fair, a two-week event running until July 28th. Stacks upon stacks of books lined the shelves, tables and walls at a book fair held at the Egyptian coastal city of Alexandria. The event - which runs until July 28 - is held at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, the mod...

 The African Union convened in Ghana on Sunday to address issues related to African integration and to establish a unified stance before engaging with the G20 and UN. Mauritania's President and current African Union Chair, Mohamed Cheikh Ghazouani, urged for the acceleration of the African integration process. He stressed the importance of exp...

 The Central African Republic government has accused Portuguese-Belgian national Martin Joseph Figueira of espionage on behalf of certain Western countries, including the United States. During a press conference at the Presidential Palace, President Archange Touadera's advisor clarified the situation regarding the member of the American NGO FH...

 Flights, banks, media outlets and companies across the world were disrupted by a major internet outage affecting Microsoft on Friday morning. The chief executive of CrowdStrike the cybersecurity company at the heart of the outage said it was gradually fixing the issue adding there was a defect in a "single content update for Windows hosts." P...

 The former finance minister in Mozambique has gone on trial in the US over the so-called "tuna bond" scandal which came to light in 2016. Manuel Chang, who was the country's finance minister from 2005 to 2015, is charged with taking bribes to commit his country secretly to huge loans that prosecutors say were then looted. Bribes, fraud and mo...

 In an address to the nation Wednesday, Haiti's Prime Minister called gangs to surrender their weapons. "Life every day in Port-au-Prince has turned into a battle for survival," Gary Conille said. According to the UN, 2,500 people, including at least 82 children, were killed, or injured because of gang violence in the first three months of the...

 The International Monetary Fund (IMF) Executive Board has approved the disbursement of approximately 43 million dollars to the Congolese government under the extended credit facility initiated in 2022. This approval comes after four reviews of the three-year program, highlighting the economic effectiveness of the structural reforms implemente...

 In Kenya, authorities have apprehended a suspected serial killer after uncovering multiple bodies at a quarry in Nairobi. On Monday, Mohamed Amin, the head of the Criminal Investigations Directorate, announced that 33-year-old Jumaisi Khalusha confessed to killing 42 women, including his wife, since 2022. The suspect was apprehended in a bar ...

The UN Security Council has approved a resolution extending the mandate of the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH) for an additional year. Antonio Rodrigue, Haiti's Permanent Representative to the UN, stated, "The Haitian government, through my office, welcomes the unanimous adoption of resolution 2743, which extends BINUH's mandate f...

 Former President United States Donald Trump was the target of an assassination attempt Saturday at a Pennsylvania rally, days before he was to accept the Republican nomination for a third time. A barrage of gunfire set off panic, and a bloodied Trump, who said he was shot in the ear, was surrounded by Secret Service and hurried to his SUV as ...

 A South African restaurant served up a 3-meter-long (9.8 feet) sandwich recently in the latest offering from an establishment with a taste for the supersized. The giant submarine sandwich produced by Annies Ladies Bar in Cape Town follows a burger it cooked up in 2019 that weighed in at a whopping 124 kilograms (273 pounds). With no less than...

Rescuers in Nepal continued their search on Friday for survivors after two buses were swept off a key highway into the Trishuli River in the early hours of the morning. At least 60 people are missing, while three others who swam to safety and are being treated in a nearby hospital. The buses were travelling on a highway connecting the capital to so...

 Cameroonian President Paul Biya on Tuesday won approval from lawmakers to push back legislative and local elections until 2026, a move opposition parties fear will complicate their ability to contest next year's presidential election. Lawmakers from Mr Biya's Cameroon People's Democratic Movement (CPDM), who hold the majority in the National ...

 Medical advocacy groups welcomed Johnson & Johnson's decision not to enforce its patent on a critical tuberculosis medication, allowing its production at much lower prices after South African authorities investigated the conglomerate. The South African Competition Commission in a statement on July 5 said it decided not to prosecute a comp...

The storytelling festival in Morocco gathers talented performers who have the ability of intriguing the audience with their captivating stories. Musicians and street artists from more than 30 countries are being drawn to the weeklong festival, creating opportunities for other talents to shine. "The International Storytelling Festival has become a m...

Swimming sensation Farida Osman's dream of representing Egypt in her fourth Olympics have been dashed by the narrowest of margins. The 6-time All-Africa gold medallist failed to reach the qualification standard of 24.70 seconds in the 50-metre freestyle - by a mere two-hundredths of a second. Also a 3-time world championship bronze medalist, Osman ...

 Gabon's payment dispute with the World Bank is apparently resolved. Authorities in the central African nation say technical issues made it impossible for the country to keep its commitments by June 30. In an undated statement, the ministry of public accounts said arrears were paid back to the World Bank. This comes after a confidential World ...

 Russia's President Vladimir Putin held talks with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jingping, at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Kazakhstan on Wednesday. This second in-person meeting in as many months is widely seen as a show of deepening cooperation between the two countries. Putin and Xi last met in May when the Kremlin lea...

 Antony Blinken, the U.S. Secretary of State, held a meeting on Tuesday at the State Department with Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille and Foreign Minister Dominique Dupuy to emphasize the significance of U.S. backing for Haiti's recently appointed government. Blinken started by saying, "this is an important time for Haiti, an important tim...