Sat 22 March 2025: It’s become common to see kids, some in their school uniforms, puffing on a vape. The World Health Organization points to the enticing flavours and targeted marketing to young people as the key reasons behind this trend. In the US, e-cigarettes are the most commonly used tobacco product among middle and high school students […]
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Sat 22 March 2025: In the digital economy, data is more than just information – it is an asset with immense economic and strategic value. Yet, despite its significance, a fundamental legal question remains unresolved: Can data be owned? While privacy laws worldwide focus on protecting individuals’ rights over their personal data, they often sidestep […]
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Fri 21 March 2025: The Sudanese army seized full control of the Presidential Palace in downtown Khartoum today, it said in a statement, in one of the most symbolic gains in a two-year-old conflict with a rival armed group that has threatened to partition the country, Reuters reports. The army had long been on the backfoot but has recently […]
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Fri 21 March 2025: Somalia’s president has fired his defence minister reportedly under pressure from the United States, due to the dismissed official having close ties with Turkiye, sources have revealed. On Sunday, Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud dismissed his defence minister Abuldkadir Mohamed Nur, in a reshuffle which saw him reassigned as the country’s […]
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Thu 20 March 2025: Sudan’s army is close to taking control of the Presidential Palace in Khartoum from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), state TV reported today according to Reuters. The RSF quickly took the palace and most of the capital at the outbreak of war in April 2023, but the Sudanese Armed Forces have […]
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Thu 20 March 2025: At least 10,000 people were displaced in February in Mozambique’s violence-hit northern province of Cabo Delgado, a UN agency said Wednesday. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in a report that 93% of those movements of people were found to be due to “attacks or […]
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Thu 20March 2025: Consumer price inflation has remained at 3.2% in February – unchanged from January. According to Statistics South Africa, the main contributors to the annual inflation rate were: Housing and utilities (4.4% and contributing 1.0 percentage point); Food and non-alcoholic beverages (2.8% and contributing 0.5 of a percentage point), and Restaurants and accommodation […]
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Wed 19 March 2025: Social grant beneficiaries who have not replaced their South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) gold cards with the new Postbank black cards, have only one day left to make the change, before their gold cards stop working. After tomorrow, 20 March 2025, SASSA gold cards will be deactivated and beneficiaries who […]
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Democratic Republic of the Congo President Felix Tshisekedi and his Rwandan counterpart, Paul Kagame, meet with Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani in Doha, Qatar Wed 19 March 2025: The three countries call for ‘immediate and unconditional ceasefire’ in eastern DRC. Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) President Felix Tshisekedi and Rwandan […]
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Tue 18 March 2025: From winding borders to straight lines and landlocked nations, Al Jazeera explores the stories behind Africa’s map. Africa has the most countries of any continent with a total of 54. Rather than following natural terrains or historical boundaries, many of its borders are strikingly straight in some areas and jagged in […]
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