Mon 29 September 2025: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today: ◼️ Phala phala report could do damage: The report on IPID’s investigation into Phala Phala could “seriously damage operational relations between institutions,” leading to its classification as “top secret” by the government, according to Police Minister Firoz Cachalia, adding that this is why it […]
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Sun 28 September 2025: Minerals fuel modern civilization, ensuring comfort and amenities. From electronic devices to machines of all types, various minerals are required to operate them. Should we call the civil wars in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) a manifestation of the resource curse? A closer look at the political scenario […]
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Sat 27 September 2025: Madagascar’s president on Friday sacked his energy minister in a bid to calm protests over power cuts and water shortages, which had left wreckage strewn across the capital a day earlier. Police used rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse crowds of mostly young people in Antananarivo on Thursday, in protests President Andry […]
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Sat 27 September 2025: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today: ◼️ Malema wants Cyril Ramaphosa to testify: “We plead that let these names that have been submitted be subjected to consultations. Then we shall be advised. Including the president, the president was mentioned in the committee where the minister said he consulted the president […]
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Fri 26 September 2025: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today: ◼️ Israel in Africa: For Israel, Africa provides contracts, votes and legitimacy. For African citizens, it too often means austerity, debt service and surveillance. The mask of aid conceals an extractive logic. Israel’s “return to Africa” looks less like partnership – and more like […]
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Fri 26 September 2025: How loans, aid and technology deals enrich Israel while leaving African citizens with the debt. Last month, Israel opened a new embassy in Lusaka, Zambia, after a 50-year absence. Foreign Minister Gideon Saar called it part of the ‘alliance of believers’, adding that “Strengthening our engagement with Africa is a strategic […]
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Fri 26 September 2025: The group says it will not stop its operations targeting undocumented foreign nationals at public facilities, despite widespread condemnation and legal challenges. The controversial group Operation Dudula has vowed to continue its campaign targeting undocumented foreign nationals, despite facing legal challenges and condemnation from political parties and human rights organisations. The […]
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Thu 25 September 2025: Democratic Republic of Congo will stick to its recently announced quota system for cobalt exports, with revisions only possible in the long term if the government sees them as necessary, the country’s mining minister said on Wednesday. The mining minister, Louis Watum Kabamba, told Reuters in an interview on the sidelines […]
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Wed 24 September 2025: The three West African countries say they are leaving the International Criminal Court to seek ‘sovereignty’. Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, three nations in West Africa run by military governments after coups in recent years, have announced their exit from the International Criminal Court (ICC), referring to it as “neocolonial repression” […]
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Sun 17 August 2025: A total of 22,000 cases registered in province in 2023; in first five months of 2024, figure had already reached 17,000. Healthcare providers in the war-torn eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) treated more than 17,000 victims of sexual violence over just five months last year, according to a United […]
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