A giant bronze statue of Nelson Mandela overlooks a big black tarpaulin tent that has become a fixture on the emerald lawns of the South African president’s office in Pretoria. The tent houses campaigners from the Khoisan indigenous people — South Africa’s first inhabitants, whose presence in this country has been dated by archaeologists to […]

Six years after 43 students disappeared and were most likely murdered in south-western Mexico, the government has promised further investigations. “We must not give up hope,” Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Saturday. “There will be justice.” The 43 young men were studying in a rural teacher training college in Ayotzinapa and went […]

US President Donald Trump speaks with reporters aboard Air Force One as he flies from Manchester, New Hampshire to Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, August 28, 2020, following a campaign rally.

Heavily-armed jihadists killed six members of a civilian militia pursuing them after an attack in Burkina Faso’s east, a local mayor said Saturday. Burkina Faso has been badly hit by jihadists who started making incursions from neighbouring Mali in 2015. More than 1,100 people have lost their lives and over a million have fled their […]

Thousands of demonstrators joined after-sunset rallies across Israel on Saturday to protest against the rule of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, despite a strict virus lockdown. Netanyahu had earlier attempted to extend the country’s lockdown rules to prevent the now-weekly protests on health grounds, but was unable to push new curbs through Israel’s parliament in time. […]