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Roger Federer’s hopes of a ninth Wimbledon title bit the dust as South African Kevin Anderson recovered from two sets down to win a quarter-final cliffhanger 2-6 6-7(5) 7-5 6-4 13-11 on a tension-filled Court One on Wednesday. The 36-year-old Swiss, not playing on Centre Court for the first time since 2015, displayed his usual panache as he strolled through ...

A South African court postponed hearings on Thursday in a culpable homicide case involving former president Jacob Zuma’s son Duduzane until Aug. 23. Lawyers for Duduzane Zuma said they hoped to agree on a start date once they had studied the state’s evidence. The charges relate to a fatal 2014 car crash in which Duduzane’s sports car smashed into a ...

President Yoweri Museveni has approved increased security spending for Uganda’s 456 members of parliament – including on sharpshooters and armoured escort vehicles – after a ruling party lawmaker was shot dead. Critics said the spending was wasteful and failed to address security concerns of normal citizens who fear rampant crime in a country marked by unsolved murders, waves of kidnappings ...

President of the United States, Donald Trump, says he is on a mission to achieve global peace especially peace on the African continent. In comments made to journalists on the sidelines of a North America Treaty Organization (Nato) summit in Brussels, Trump stressed that Africa’s problems were so complicated that only few people could understand it. Trump said in part: ...

Students have torched seven boarding schools in Kenya in the last week in protest against the introduction of tough new measures to prevent cheating in examinations due in three months, education minister Amina Mohammed has said, at a press conference. At one school, students demanded an undertaking from the principal that he would facilitate cheating in the examinations, she added.​​ ...

Boris Johnson has resigned as Foreign Secretary amid a growing political crisis over the UK’s Brexit strategy. He is second senior cabinet minister to quit within hours following Brexit Secretary David Davis’s exit. His departure came 30 minutes before Theresa May is due to address Parliament about her new Brexit plan, which has angered many Tory MPs. In a statement, ...

Six soldiers were killed over the weekend in an attack blamed on the jihadist group Boko Haram on a military position in southeast Niger, the defence ministry said on Tuesday revising down an earlier death toll. The Niger army previously said on Sunday that 10 soldiers were killed in the assault near the border with Nigeria. “In the night from ...

French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Lagos on Tuesday evening to the Shrine, Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti’s music venue, to celebrate Nigerian and African culture. “I’m very happy to be here with you tonight,” said Macron, addressing the cheering and whistling crowd in English. Macron went directly to the Shrine from Nigeria’s capital of Abuja, where he met with President ...

Eritrea’s president Isaias Afwerki held talks with the Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohamed Bin Zayed on Tuesday, which the Horn of Africa nation’s information ministry says focused on enhancing existing ties of cooperation between the two countries. Eritrea’s information minister Yemane Meskel said the two leaders agreed to increase investment in different sectors including education, health, physical infrastructure, agriculture ...

Senami, a 13-year-old girl, was purchased in Benin. “My father didn’t want to sell me, but someone put a spell on my uncle and he persuaded my father,” she said. Taken to oil-rich Gabon, Senami slaved as a domestic servant and later as a roadside peanut seller. With a mixture of rage and sorrow, she recounts her tragic life – ...