More than 2,000 workers remained underground for a second day Tuesday in a protest over pay and benefits at a platinum mine in South Africa. The mine is owned by Implats, which is one of the world’s biggest platinum miners. The firm
An elderly couple who discovered an African mask worth millions in their attic have lost their case against a second-hand dealer who bought it from them for just £130. The mask, which is said to have been brought back by a relative
Authorities detained two buses carrying 102 migrants from African nations in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca on Tuesday morning, according to Mexico’s immigration agency. Three suspected people smugglers traveling with the convoy were also arrested. The majority of the migrants came
A man charged with terrorism and other offenses over a 2022 fire that badly damaged South Africa’s historic Parliament complex in Cape Town was declared unfit to stand trial by a court on Monday. Zandile Mafe was diagnosed with schizophrenia by an
Government hopes that asylum seekers who use small boats to land in the UK could be sent to Rwanda were dealt a blow after the Supreme Court raised doubts over the East African country’s ability to honour international laws. PM Rishi Sunak
West Africa’s top court on Thursday rejected a request by Niger’s junta for a lifting of coup-related sanctions imposed by its neighbors, ruling that the junta is unconstitutional and therefore lacks the authority to make such a request. Following the July coup
Rwanda stands ready to welcome migrants as UK’s asylum plan faces delays (Image: Getty) Claims Rwanda was cooling on its deportation deal with Britain were quashed today when senior officials insisted a new treaty would make it work. A Rwandan government spokesman
Eleven people have been killed and at least 75 others are injured after an elevator at a mine in South Africa broke and plunged down hundreds of feet, the mine operator said Tuesday. The incident occurred on Monday afternoon at a platinum
Mercenaries from the Wagner Group are making £8million a month waging war in Mali as it exchanges African gold to help fund Vladimir Putin’s war machine, according to reports. Business for the terror group led by Yevgeny Prigozhin until his violent death in
The British government on Wednesday vowed to press on with efforts to deport illegal immigrants to Rwanda, despite a ruling from the nation’s Supreme Court that the program in its current form is unlawful – with the prime minister saying the government