A "new black market" for synthetics and drug trafficking through war zones are fuelling instability around the world, the chief of the UN drugs and crime office said on Monday.

More recently, China retaliated to the US trade war by announcing tariffs on 80 US products. China is set to place 15 per ...

Both are instruments of war and destruction. Nobody should ask me to put on a uniform to go into some strange country in the heart of Africa to fire high-calibre machine guns and drop bombs on ...

Armed forces in Sudan’s civil war are perpetrating systematic sexual violence against young children, with one-year-olds the ...

The president has rescinded a Biden-era system that required high-level approval for certain drone strikes and commando raids ...

While South Africa has sought to display neutrality in the war between Russia and Ukraine, it has been accused of leaning towards Moscow. In October, Ramaphosa described Russia as “valuable ...

In African embassies, few voices are willing to speak out on the war in Ukraine. Many of the diplomats contacted by RFI were reluctant to discuss the subject – a silence that reflects a posture ...

The M23 armed group is advancing on strategic zones in the eastern DRC after taking ... averting the widening of conflict into a regional war.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said the gathering aimed to “engage in serious dialogue” against a backdrop of ongoing wars, climate change, and energy and food insecurity. The United ...