The social media ads promised the young African women a free plane ticket, money and a faraway adventure in Europe. Just complete a computer game and a 100-word Russian vocabulary test. But instead of ...

Rescuers observe before transporting a fragment of Russian cruise missile outside a residential building in Kyiv on August 1, 2025, partially destroyed following a Russian missile strike morning on ...

Google, Meta and TikTok have removed social media accounts belonging to an industrial plant in Russia's Tatarstan region aimed at recruiting young foreign women to make drones for Moscow's war in ...

They hoped for a better career but ended up in Russia's war factories. A new study reveals how young women, mainly from Africa, have been being exploited. Some of those affected have shared their ...

Patricia Kilinga one of the individuals in Africa linked to Alabuga Start. [Association of European Investigative journalists/Courtesy] Fresh revelations have emerged listing names and faces of ...

Deep within Russia, far from the fighting in Ukraine, a massive factory is producing the lethal drones that have become one of the Kremlin's most dreaded weapons. Teenagers, some as young as 16, are ...

On a Saturday afternoon earlier this month, about 60 people, young women and their parents, gathered in an auditorium at the University of Botswana to listen to several of their countrymen exhort them ...

A Russian initiative marketed as a skills development programme for African youth is under growing scrutiny. Zimbabwean MP Martin Mureri has called for urgent parliamentary debate, describing the ...