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Goal To End AIDS By 2030 "More Off-Track" After Trump Cuts: UNAIDS Head
- Jun 13, 2025 21:24 pm IST
- Reuters
Donald Trump's cuts to HIV/AIDS programmes will further derail an already faltering plan to end the disease as a public health threat by 2030, UNAIDS Executive Director Winnie Byanyima said on Friday.
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Famine Risk Stalks South Of Sudan's Capital Khartoum: World Food Programme
- Jun 10, 2025 18:41 pm IST
- Agence France-Presse
Areas around the south of the Sudanese capital Khartoum are at high risk of famine, the World Food Programme warned on Tuesday, calling for an immediate international response.
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Severe Cold Front Brings Snow In South Africa
- Jun 10, 2025 17:00 pm IST
- Reuters
A severe cold front sweeping across South Africa since the weekend brought heavy snowfall which has led to road closures, power outages and a fatal road accident, officials said.
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Egypt, Greece Agree To Protect Status Of Mount Sinai Monastery, After Court Ruling
- Jun 05, 2025 18:24 pm IST
- Reuters
Greece and Egypt have agreed to safeguard the status of one of the world's oldest sites of Christian worship, foreign ministers of both countries said late on Wednesday, after an Egyptian court ruling last week cast uncertainty over its future.
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4 Million People Have Fled Sudan Since Start Of War In 2023: UN
- Jun 03, 2025 17:45 pm IST
- Agence France-Presse
More than four million people have fled Sudan since the start of the conflict in 2023, the United Nations said Tuesday, calling the figure a "devastating milestone".
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Businessman Mauled By Lion While Using Toilet At Luxury Lodge In Namibia
- Jun 03, 2025 10:02 am IST
- Edited by: Abhinav Singh
The lion ambushed Mr Kebbel when he stepped out of his tent to use the toilet, as per the environment ministry spokesperson.
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Woman Gets Life Sentence For Trafficking 6-Year-Old Daughter
- May 30, 2025 10:45 am IST
- Edited by: NDTV News Desk
A South African mother has been handed a life sentence for selling her 6-year-old daughter so a "traditional healer" could cut out and use her skin and eyeballs.
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South African Woman Who Sold Daughter For Her "Eyes And Skin", Sentenced To Life In Prison
- May 29, 2025 18:01 pm IST
- Edited by: Nikhil Pandey
A South African mother and her partner were sentenced to life in prison for abducting and trafficking her six-year-old daughter to a traditional healer who wanted the child for her body parts.
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Nigerian TikTok Star 'Sprayed' Money Into Air At A Party, Jailed For 6 Months
- May 29, 2025 08:57 am IST
- Agence France-Presse
A Nigerian court on Wednesday sentenced a popular TikToker to six months in jail for "spraying" the local naira currency into the air at a party, a common local celebratory practice.
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Ancient Town And Its Manuscripts Face Ravages Of The Sahara
- May 28, 2025 11:51 am IST
- Agence France-Presse
From his roof, Sidi Mohamed Lemine Sidiya scans the mediaeval town of Oualata, a treasure that is disappearing under the sands of the Mauritanian desert.
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Operation Sindoor Must Go Global: Indian Delegation In South Africa
- May 28, 2025 07:44 am IST
- Asian News International
NCP-SCP MP Supriya Sule, who is leading an all-party delegation, while interacting with the Indian community in Johannesburg, said the terror attack in Pahalgam has deeply hurt every Indian around the world.
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"After Losing Wars, Pak Chose Terrorism To Target India": Indian Delegation In Congo
- May 28, 2025 04:15 am IST
- Asian News International
BJP leader SS Ahluwalia, part of the all-party delegation led by Shiv Sena MP Shrikant Shinde, scathingly criticised Pakistan, stating that it has repeatedly used terrorism as a weapon against India after losing three wars.
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'Kill The Farmer' Song Not A Call To Murder: South African President
- May 27, 2025 17:01 pm IST
- Agence France-Presse
A chant that US leader Donald Trump used to back claims of white genocide in South Africa is an apartheid-era slogan that did not really mean for farmers to be killed, the president said Tuesday.
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South Africa To Buy Gas From US In Proposed New Trade Deal Worth $1 Billion
- May 26, 2025 19:01 pm IST
- Agence France-Presse
South Africa said Monday it plans to buy liquefied natural gas from the United States in a proposed deal worth around $1 billion a year, after a tense televised encounter between the countries' presidents.
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Opinion | No, Sirs. South Africa Is Not 'Killing' Its Whites
- May 26, 2025 16:58 pm IST
- Syed Zubair Ahmed
The "white genocide" myth serves no one. It stokes fear among white South Africans, trivialises the pain of Black South Africans, and hands a loaded weapon to racists in America and Europe.
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How Trump Showed Old Video To Falsely Claim White Genocide In South Africa
- May 22, 2025 19:50 pm IST
- Edited by: Anushree Jonko
The multiple crosses were planted ahead of the event and later removed. They were not gravesites for farmers. The footage that was posted on social media also showed people setting up the white crosses.
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About "Kill The Boer" Chant In Trump's South Africa 'White Genocide' Video
- May 22, 2025 15:24 pm IST
- Edited by: Sanstuti Nath
Before US President Donald Trump welcomed his South African counterpart, Cyril Ramaphosa, into the Oval Office on Wednesday, White House aides had set up two large-screen televisions in the West Wing.
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Explained: Elon Musk, Donald Trump And Claims Of White Genocide In South Africa
- May 22, 2025 14:31 pm IST
- Edited by: NDTV News Desk
US President Donald Trump granted refugee status to nearly 60 white Afrikaners from South Africa, citing unverified claims of a "white genocide." The US processed their asylum requests directly in South Africa and flew them out of Johannesburg on a s