Tag: African
Edo protesters storm brand new home for West African art
Todah OpeyemiBBC Africa, LagosX"Edo" was initially in the museum's name, but this was later dropped. Executive director Phillip Ihenacho told the BBC the...
African women tricked into making Russian drones: ‘My skin was peeling’
Mayeni JonesAfrica correspondentGetty Images / BBCOn her first day of work, Adau realised she had made a big mistake."We got our uniforms, not...
Delhi’s lonely African elephant Shankar was killed by rare rodent-borne virus
A rodent-borne virus led to the death of the only African elephant at the zoo in India's capital Delhi, officials have told the...
South African court rules apartheid police assault killed Nobel laureate
A South African court has ruled that Nobel laureate Albert Luthuli's 1967 death was the result of an "assault" by apartheid police, overturning...
Madrid’s radically different approach to African migration
Paul MellyWest Africa analystAFP via Getty ImagesSpain is kicking against the prevailing political mood among Western nations when it comes to migration and...
South African farm worker tells court women fed to pigs to...
A South African farm worker has described to a court how he was forced by his boss to feed the bodies of two...
South African fathers entitled to equal parental leave, Constitutional Court rules
South Africa's highest court has unanimously ruled that all parents of new-borns are entitled to equal parental leave - a landmark judgment hailed...
South African firebrand MP convicted of firing a gun in public
South African opposition politician Julius Malema has been found guilty of discharging a firearm in public seven years ago - an offence which...
French navy seizes nearly 10 tonnes of cocaine off West African...
The French navy has seized nearly 10 tonnes of cocaine, worth $610m (£540m) off the coast of West Africa, French authorities have said.Two...
Three West African countries to quit UN top court
Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have announced they will immediately withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC), labelling it an "instrument of neo-colonialist...
