Catch up on the biggest stories of Wednesday, 4 February 2026 that you may have missed, in our simple daily news update.

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams have returned to south-eastern Mauritania to provide care to Malian refugees and the communities hosting them. Over the past two years in this border region of ...

For months, people feared an onward assault on nearby Uvira, which had become an important stronghold for the Congolese army ...

MEC Xolile Nqatha said 82 prisoners remain at large after escaping Eastern Cape police custody over three financial years provincewide. Wrongful releases, transport escapes and police negligence ...

There is dead silence from the main opposition, the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) at the time their voice should have been echoing the walls and corridors of Capital Hill, the seat of government, ...

The comment section went wild, with some commentators saying that AU no longer serves the interest of the African people, but rather the interests of the West and individual nations with greedy ...