Category: Africa

Sat 04 April 2026: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today: 👇🏼 ◼️ Will SA receive reparations from UK and Netherlands for colonialism? The question comes as momentum builds across the continent after the African Union’s (AU) declaration of a “decade for reparations”. At an AU assembly session in Ethiopia in February 2026, African leaders […]

Fri 03 April 2026: Traore reneged on promises to hold elections and has since scrapped political parties in the country. Burkina Faso’s military leader, Ibrahim Traore, says that people need to “forget” about democracy, just three months after his government dissolved all political parties in the West African nation. Speaking to journalists in a lengthy interview on […]

Fri 03 April 2026: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today: 👇🏼 ◼️ SA urged to stop coal exports to Israel amid humanitarian crisis: The activists said that although South Africa has already demonstrated its commitment to these obligations on the international plane, notably through its proceedings at the ICJ and consistent public position in […]

Thu 02 April 2026: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today: 👇🏼 ◼️ Public demands urgent access to sex offenders register amid escalating violence: The first South African national gender-based violence study in 2024 survey found that an estimated 33,1% of all women in South Africa, aged 18 and older, have experienced physical or sexual […]

Thu 02 April 2026: Government and allied forces in Burkina Faso have killed more than twice as many civilians as Islamist militants have since 2023, according to a tally of incidents documented in a report, opens new tab published on Thursday by Human Rights Watch. The pattern is broadly consistent with data shared ​with Reuters […]

Wed 01 April 2026: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today: ◼️ Health risks exposed in SA’s latest water report cards: Anet Muir, chief director of water use compliance monitoring and enforcement, said the volume of water leaking from old or damaged pipes in Gauteng (431 million cubic metres per annum) was now almost equivalent […]

Tue 31 March 2026:  Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today: ◼️ Calls grow to cut fuel levies as prices surge: It is still not clear what measures government will implement to mitigate the impact of the high prices of fuel, which have been triggered by the ongoing war between the US, Israel and Iran. […]

Mon 30 March 2026: China is reinforcing its dominant position in Congo’s mining sector through a new cooperation deal, as global competition intensifies over critical minerals essential to energy and defense supply chains. The Democratic Republic of Congo, the world’s leading cobalt producer, signed a new agreement with China to expand cooperation in mining. The […]

Mon 30 March 2026:  Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today:👇🏼 ◼️ Easter panic: The projected fuel prices continue to spike, with the latest data from the Central Energy Fund (CEF) showing that motorists could be paying more than R10 per litre for diesel, marking the first time in the country’s history. The Citizen visited […]

Sat 28 March 2026: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today:👇🏼 ◼️ SA warns over critical infrastructure collapse: “The encouraging thing is that many of the solutions already exist if we focus on protecting and managing the water systems we already have.” She pushed back against the narrative that South Africa is simply running out […]