Aussies are among the victims of a high-profile Nigerian entrepreneur arrested in an elaborate international sting after allegedly stealing more than $8 million.
Natalie O’Brien
Health authorities confirm a haemorrhagic fever outbreak has killed at least 11 people as the desperate search for the source of the outbreak continues.
Matt Shrivell
Several cases of a disease that causes a viral hemorrhagic fever, and is from the same virus family as Ebola, have been detected.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex began their Colombian tour on Thursday – invited by a vice president inspired by their derided Netflix documentary.
Ian Gallagher
Andrew Forrest’s Fortescue Metals Group is readying to export its first iron ore from Gabon after signing a mining deal in February for its Belinga project.
Sean Smith
Rio Tinto will invest $40.4 million and acquire a 15 per cent stake in Sovereign Metals, which through its Kasiya project in central Malawi controls the world’s largest natural rutile deposit.
Jordan Murray
Leo Lithium has awarded a $520 million mining services contract for its Goulamina project as it aims to begin producing spodumene concentrate at the Mali mine before June 2024.
European cocoa buyers must be ready to pay more for beans that meet the region’s looming sustainability rules, key grower Ghana warned.
Ekow Dontoh
Paladin Energy has pushed back against reports the Namibian government was entertaining buying a minority stake in mining companies operating in the country, saying it was unaware of any such changes.
A resurgence of mining activity in frontier destinations such as Africa comes as companies are being forced to chase projects further afield amid increased competition in mature jurisdictions.
Danielle Le Messurier
Lithium explorer Atlantic has been grilled by the ASX concerning its dealings with a Ghana-based mineral exploration services company following damning claims by a US-based short-seller.
Nigeria's Labour party candidate Peter Obi says he will launch a legal bid to overturn ruling party rival Bola Tinubu's presidential election victory.
Camillus Eboh
Nigeria's top election official has dismissed concerns the country's cash crisis could prevent voters from travelling to polling stations to elect a president.
Chinedu Asadu
Tropical cyclone Freddy has made landfall in Madagascar's southeast, causing a storm surge and killing at least one person.
Staff Writers
A tragedy is unfolding in Africa, where a climate-induced catastrophe has hundreds of thousands of kids on the brink of famine — just as global leaders at COP27 wrestle with how to slow the climate crisis.
James Elder
A former Perth veterinarian kidnapped in the troubled African nation of Chad has been released after three days in captivity.
Peta Rasdien
Murdoch University is ‘deeply concerned’ by reports former resident veterinarian Jerome Hugonot has been kidnapped in the central African nation while working in wildlife conservation.
Rebecca Le May
A French-Australian vet working in wildlife conservation is reported to have been abducted in Chad by unknown kidnappers.
Catie McLeod
Qantas has sensationally been forced to suspend the sale of tickets on its new Perth to Johannesburg and Perth to Jakarta flights because of operational problems.
Geoffrey Thomas
Climate change is considered the ‘greatest threat to global health in the 21st century’, with sobering new data quantifying the extent humans are expected to suffer amid a deteriorating environment.
Miriam Fisher
Police in Kenya say at least 21 people have died after a bus fell off a bridge and plunged into a river along the highway from the capital, Nairobi.
South Africa police say a shooting at a tavern in Johannesburg's Soweto township has killed 14 people and left three others in critical condition.
Mogomotsi Magome
A second woman has been killed in a shark attack in Egypt's Red Sea just hours after - and only 600m away - from where another swimmer suffered the same fate.
A deadly shark attack on a 68-year-old Austrian woman has closed a stretch of Egypt's popular Red Sea coastline.
Samy Magdy
