Labour’s analysis shows the number of black children in poor households has more than doubled in 10 years. Photograph: Matthew Horwood/Alamy The Guardian By Andrew Sparrow Exclusive: Labour party research also finds black children at least twice as likely to grow up poor as white children More than half of black children in the UK

Firefighters work among the smoke after a fire broke out in the Parliament in Cape Town, South Africa. REUTERS/Sumaya Hisham By Reuters A fire at the South African parliament caused extensive damage on Sunday, collapsing the roof and gutting an entire floor in one building, with firefighters partially containing the blaze after several hours. By

Nkrumah and Lumumba African Exponent By Takudzwa Hillary Chiwanza The CIA must not hide behind the historical amnesia caused by profound agency secrecy. During the height of the Cold War in the 20th century, the mere thought of a truly emancipated Africa teeming with organic, contextual, participatory, and liberatory democracy inspired livid fury in the

U.S. Army Spc. Kevin Martin, junior sniper, assigned to the 1-186th Infantry Battalion, Task Force Guardian, Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa, provides security for a 75th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron (EAS) C-130J Super Hercules during unloading operations at an unidentified location in Somalia Sunday, June 28, 2020. No country has been involved in

Staff members take down the United Kingdom’s flag from the Council of the European Union in Brussels on Brexit Day, January 31, 2020. ( European Council Pool – Anadolu Agency ) By Anadolu Agency Almost a year has passed since the UK left the EU, but conflicting views on whether it was a necessary step

Police search for evidence at Ashburton Park, Croydon, south London after a 15-year-old boy was stabbed to death on Thursday. Photograph: Kirsty O’Connor/PA By The Guardian The Metropolitan police said a 16-year-old boy died after being stabbed in Hillingdon, west London, the 30th teenage homicide in the capital in 2021, surpassing a peak of 29

By Anadolu Agency Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday told his US counterpart Joe Biden that their relations could be severely affected if Moscow is sanctioned over the Ukraine issue, according to the Kremlin, Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said the “serious” 50-minute phone call between the leaders – their second phone call this month –

File Photo/Somali Times The United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia has announced that the international community is in talks with Somalia’s political parties to prevent the crisis from escalating into a full-scale war. “The UN and international partners are in contact with all parties to urge them to defuse the crisis,” UNSOM spokesman Ari Gaitanis

Emmerson Mnangagwa African Exponent By Takudzwa Hillary Chiwanza. Zimbabwe’s president Emmerson Mnangagwa recently reignited the country’s tumultuous and bitter colonial history when he made overt statements suggesting that the remains of Cecil John Rhodes must be exhumed from the Matopos National Park [also called Matobo Hills/National Park] and sent to Britain. In return, he demanded

By The Star, Kenya A father who was sentenced to 30 years behind bars for impregnating his teenage daughter twice has lost a bid to reduce the jail term. In his second appeal to court, NTN who was charged in 2012 with the offence of incest had asked the court to set aside the sentence