Africa

Published: 19 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. South Africa is facing renewed concern over gender-based violence after the deaths of nine women in the Ekurhuleni district east of Johannesburg since July. The cases have intensified public debate over femicide, women's safety and whether authorities are doing enough to address violence against women. Police are investigating the deaths after the bodies of nine women were discovered...

Published: 16 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Violence involving Islamist extremist groups in Africa’s Sahel region is on course to reach its highest recorded level this year, according to figures compiled by the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data project, or Acled, highlighting the continuing expansion of militant activity across Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger. The latest figures come 25 years after the 11 September...

Published: 16 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online The discovery of the bodies of seven women in and around the area near Johannesburg’s international airport has renewed widespread anger and fear in South Africa, where campaigners have long demanded stronger action against gender-based violence and femicide. Five of the women were found within the space of a week, while the other two deaths were discovered earlier...

Published: 16 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online People defending forests, rivers and Indigenous territories are facing continuing threats of violence, intimidation and murder, with communities in several countries increasingly organising local protection groups as criminal networks move deeper into environmentally sensitive areas. A new assessment cited by the independent watchdog Global Witness says 124 land and environmental defenders were killed in 2025, equivalent to roughly...

Published: 15 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have announced that the country’s latest Ebola outbreak has reached its peak, offering a measure of hope after months of rapidly spreading disease, thousands of infections and a heavy death toll. Health officials say the number of new cases is now declining, although they have stressed that preventive measures must...

Published: 09 September 2026.The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. The family of a British father whose body was discovered in Grenada in January has urged authorities in the Caribbean nation to cooperate fully with Metropolitan police investigators in the UK as they continue efforts to establish how he died. Andrew Donald Frederick, 47, was found dead on 4 January at the property where he had been staying in...

Published: 07 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Typhoon Saudel has caused widespread flooding, landslides and infrastructure damage across parts of south-east China, forcing hundreds of thousands of residents to evacuate as torrential rainfall overwhelmed rivers, roads and vulnerable communities. The storm has also been accompanied by severe weather elsewhere, with powerful thunderstorms affecting north-western South Africa and a prolonged spell of oppressive heat gripping parts...

Published: 22 August 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Senior figures in African football have approached Fifa general secretary Mattias Grafström to assess whether the Swedish administrator could be willing to challenge Gianni Infantino for the presidency of world football’s governing body next year, according to reports. The approaches have emerged at a potentially significant moment for Fifa, with growing signs of dissatisfaction among some African football...

Published: 24 May 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Four critically endangered mountain bongos have returned to their ancestral homeland in Kenya in a landmark conservation effort aimed at rescuing one of the world’s rarest antelope species from extinction. The arrival of the male bongos — Fitz, Maue, Kudu and Bon64 — at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport marked the latest chapter in a decades-long campaign to restore...

Published: 24 May  2026.  The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. A growing number of conflicts around the world are increasingly using hunger as a weapon of war, with new analysis revealing more than 20,000 documented incidents of attacks on food systems, markets, farmland, and aid distribution networks since 2018. The findings, based on data compiled by researchers at Insecurity Insight and released ahead of the anniversary of UN...