Victor Wembanyama has been named captain of France for four games in August, marking a new leadership role for the NBA star as he returns to the national team. The 22-year-old will lead a squad featuring veterans Rudy Gobert and Evan Fournier in World Cup qualifying.
READ MORECampaigning for Nigeria’s general election got underway on Wednesday and voters are already making one thing clear: they want straight answers from the candidates about how they’ll improve the lives of citizens.
Sudan’s army says 318 Rapid Support Forces fighters, including four commanders, have defected and joined its ranks in the latest apparent surrender by paramilitary personnel. The move comes as defections increase and fighting continues to devastate the country more than three years into the war.
The Electoral Commission of South Africa says it will not allow any party or independent candidate who missed last Friday’s deadline to make any additions to its list of nominated candidates.
The impeachment committee rescinded its decision to nominate Advocate Thandazani Madonsela, SC, as the evidence leader of its impeachment inquiry into President Cyril Ramaphosa over Phala Phala.
The Freedom Front Plus in Gauteng has named its mayoral candidates, with former party MP Willie Spies set to run in the City of Tshwane.
A drone strike on Mekelle, the capital of Ethiopia’s Tigray region, injured at least 13 people, including five children, a hospital official said Thursday. The attack comes amid growing tensions between federal and Tigrayan forces and fears the region could slide back into war.
Captain Ibrahim Traore said he intends remaining the country's only leader, threatening to deal harshly with dissent.
KwaZulu-Natal Finance MEC Francois Rodgers has given the troubled eNdumeni Local Municipality, near Dundee in northern KwaZulu-Natal, until 31 July 2026 to pass its 2026/27 budget, or face dissolution.
The Electoral Commission of SA is anticipating that the number of candidates standing for election in the 4 November polls could surpass the 100 000 mark.
Diplomats from around the world are gathering at United Nations headquarters in New York on Friday, to decide whether to permanently remove from office the embattled chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.
The Malian government has rejected reports of US intervention in the fight against the jihadist group JNIM, saying the claims are false.
Local residents said the Allied Democratic Forces, an Islamic State-allied extremist group known by its acronym ADF, attacked the Kikundo mining site, near the border between North Kivu and Ituri provinces on Wednesday.
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