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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Sat 16 August 2025: Limited access to vaccines and funding gaps are the challenges hampering the fight against mpox in Africa, an official of the World Health Organization (WHO) said Thursday, as the continent marked a year since mpox was declared a public health emergency of international concern. Patrick Otim, program manager of emergency response […]
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Fri 15 August 2025: Mali’s authorities have detained several military personnel and civilians, including two army generals and an alleged French intelligence operative, accused of plotting to destabilize the nation. On Thursday evening, Mali’s Security Minister, General Daoud Aly Mohammedine, confirmed the arrests, addressing days of speculation surrounding the detention of Malian military officials. […]
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Fri 15 August 2025: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today: ◼️ SA starts a soul-searching ‘national dialogue’: Concerns have been raised over a possible $40 million cost, while there are also questions about whether the dialogue will result in significant changes. South Africa faces many problems more than 30 years after the end of the apartheid […]
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Fri 15 August 2025: The South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) has expressed concern following an upsurge in what appears to be unlawful deductions by financial service providers targeting social grants beneficiaries. In a statement on Thursday, the agency said it has been inundated with enquiries from its beneficiaries, stating that their grant money […]
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