Category: Africa

Sat 25 April 2026: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today: 👇🏼 ◼️ SA’s top envoy to Ghana summoned over attacks on foreigners: Earlier this week, video clips were shared online showing vigilante groups attacking and confronting people they believed were in South Africa illegally – in one of them they challenge a Ghanaian man […]

Fri 24 April 2026:  Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today: ◼️ President Ramaphosa suspends police chief over $21m contract: The police minister, national commissioner and his deputy have all now been suspended or placed on leave in a rare concentration of upheaval at the top of the force. Masemola is accused of flouting procurement […]

Fri 24 April 2026: Drought, failed rains, and conflict drive 6.5 million Somalis into hunger; children face acute malnutrition risks. On the outskirts of Somalia’s southern port city, the land has become an open graveyard for cattle. Some are left where they fell, while others are buried in shallow graves after consecutive failed rainy seasons. […]

Thu 23 April 2026: Rights advocates have accused the Trump administration of using third-country deportations to intimidate asylum seekers and migrants. Fifteen South American migrants and asylum seekers recently deported from the United States to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) say they are facing pressure to return to their countries of origin, despite concerns for […]

Thu 23 April 2026: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today: ◼️ Ramaphosa faces tough choice: The clock is ticking for President Cyril Ramaphosa as he weighs the fate of National Police Commissioner Fannie Masemola. With Masemola now embroiled in a criminal case tied to a scandal tearing through the South African Police Service (SAPS), […]

Wed 22 April 2026: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today:  ◼️ ‘SA fuels Gaza deaths’: BDS claims that allowing mining companies to continue exporting SA’s coal to Israel was contradictory because by so doing, the country was indirectly supporting the genocide against the people of Palestine, while the government had approached the International Court […]

Tue 21 April 2026: Soldiers rescue civilian captives held by the Allied Democratic Forces, a group linked with ISIL (ISIS). Ugandan and Congolese forces have reported the rescue of at least 200 civilians from captivity by an ISIL (ISIS)-linked rebel group in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The captives were freed last […]

Tue 21 April 2026: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today: 👇🏼 ◼️ Top cop Masemola faces court as Saps admits public trust has ‘eroded’: “For us as the Saps, this is a defining moment, not only for the National Commissioner of the Saps, but for the organisation as a whole, for the mere fact […]