Damian Zane

1 week ago | bbc.com | Damian Zane

Dozens killed in attacks on famine-hit Sudan campsAFPZamzam camp near el-Fasher hosts hundreds of thousands of people, who are living in famine-like conditionsMore than 100 civilians, among them at least 20 children and a medical team working for a humanitarian charity, have been killed in a series of attacks beginning on Friday in Sudan's western Darfur region, the UN has said.

2 weeks ago | bbc.com | Wycliffe Muia |Damian Zane

Only Chinese goods are facing higher US tariffs than exports from Lesotho, which will be charged at 50%.

3 weeks ago | bbc.co.uk | Wycliffe Muia |Damian Zane

Only Chinese goods are facing higher US tariffs than exports from Lesotho, which will be charged at 50%.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Damian Zane

Namibia's new president was sworn in on Friday to lead a country facing high rates of unemployment, inequality and poverty. And she will be dealing with it with the additional burden of being only Africa's second-ever directly elected female president and Namibia's first female head of state. "If things go well then it will be seen as a good example," Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah told BBC's Africa Daily podcast.

1 month ago | bbc.com | Damian Zane

Nandi-Ndaitwah has been a long-term loyalist of the South West Africa People's Organisation (Swapo) – which has been in power since the country gained independence in 1990 after a long struggle against apartheid South Africa. She joined Swapo, then a liberation movement resisting South Africa's white-minority rule, when she was only 14.