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Wales captain Lake selected for South Africa Test
Wales name captain Dewi Lake in the side for the Nations Championship match against South Africa in Durban on Saturday.
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Moroccan intelligence insider reveals widespread use of Pegasus hacking software
Whistleblower suggests internal security services deployed spyware from 2017 against key domestic and foreign targets A former member of Morocco’s domestic intelligence service has helped to provide an unprecedented insight into how the north African state used hacking software – including Pegasus spyware – to target journalists, human rights defenders, French politicians and Spanish cabinet…
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Trump’s ‘third world’ travel ban could become permanent if firebrand Republican lawmaker gets her way
Nancy Mace's bill would bar travelers from 39 countries across the Caribbean, Middle East and Africa, codifying Trump's sweeping travel ban.
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Special police team to investigate killing of an anti-migrant leader in South Africa
The March and March provincial leader died of his injuries in hospital several days after being shot.
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Idris Elba’s 22Summers Teams With Nigeria’s Nile Media & Action Xtreme On Slate Of West African Action Films
EXCLUSIVE: Idris Elba’s 22Summers is teaming with Moses Babatope’s Nigerian outfit Nile Media Entertainment Group and Chee Keong Cheung’s UK genre firm Action Xtreme on a slate of action films originating from across West Africa. The aim is to develop and produce a slate of “high-energy, commercially driven action films rooted in African stories and…
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Cinq Music acquires D’Banj’s catalog in C.R.E.A.M talent partnership
C.R.E.A.M, which launched in 2016, says it has more than seven million subscribers across Nigeria. Source
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Boss of fake government agency arrested in Nigeria after weeks on the run
The case has gripped Nigeria since President Bola Tinubu ordered a corruption investigation last week.
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Kenyan court dismisses Rastafarians’ bid to legalise cannabis
Kenya’s High Court has rejected a bid by the Rastafari Society of Kenya to allow cannabis use for religious worship, ruling that the country’s drug laws do not breach constitutional protections for freedom of religion and belief. The decision is significant because it preserves Kenya’s strict ban on cannabis while also signalling that any change…
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Before the gold rush: a South African story – in pictures
The Guardian gallery highlights *Mapalakata*, the debut publication by South African photographer Robin Bernstein, which explores the layered history of Mpumalanga on the border with Mozambique and Eswatini. Using portraits, landscapes and historical traces, the project examines how different waves of outsiders have moved through, occupied and reshaped the region long before and after European…