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Schools told to honour court order as families seek compensation and training for pupils who missed education because of their hair Urunji, 14, and Uhuru, eight, whose father, Ezaius Mkandawire, was one of several Rastafarians who won a court battle over schools banning dreadlocks. Photograph: Benson Kunchezera About 1,200 Rastafarian children …

Kenyan President William Ruto says his visible weight loss is his deliberate effort to keep fit amid concerns by some Kenyans on social media over his health. Speaking during a televised media interview on Sunday, President Ruto explained he had added some weight during the campaign period in 2022. During …

Republican congressman George Santos has admitted to theft and signed a deal with Brazilian authorities to drop the criminal charges in a 2008 case. As part of the deal, Mr Santos has been given 30 days to pay restitution and fines for the case to be dropped. He is still …

Prosecutors in the UK have described the Ekweremadus guilty verdict as “a landmark conviction.” Nigerian MP Ike Ekweremadu will be sentenced in the UK Friday after being found guilty of an organ harvesting plot, but fellow lawmakers in his country have joined growing calls for leniency in his case. Ekweremadu, 60, …

A record number of migrants – more than 10,000 – were recently apprehended at the US-Mexico border in a 24-hour period, fuelling fears over what comes next when a controversial immigration policy expires this week. Nowhere are the realities of what some have termed a border “crisis” more evident than …

Israel says Palestinian militants in Gaza have fired more than 460 rockets at it, and that its military has hit over 130 militant targets in Gaza, in the heaviest fighting in nine months. Six people were killed and 45 injured in Gaza, local medics say. Several were hurt rushing to …

South Africa’s prison authority has issued notice to terminate a contract with the multinational security firm, G4S. The company is responsible for running Mangaung Prison from where convicted rapist and murderer, Thabo Bester, escaped last May by faking his own death and planting a corpse in his cell. The escape …

A Ugandan national army soldier has shot and killed a government minister he was guarding. Retired Colonel Charles Okello Engola, who was the Deputy Minister for Gender and Labour, was shot at his home on Tuesday morning. It is not yet clear whether there was an argument between the soldier …

Nearly every border drawn on the continent is a result of power struggles between the main colonisers of the time: England, Portugal, Spain and France. In their race to claim the best resources, the colonisers terrorised the local populations and often enslaved them to line their pockets. The experience of …

From the 1930s onwards, several African women who were ahead of their time made their mark in a fiercely male-dominated society. In her remarkable essay, Géraldine Faladé Touadé revives the memory of these pioneers who have been unjustly forgotten by history for far too long. Madeleine Ly, Marie Madoé Sivomey, …