Wed 26 August 2026: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today: 👇🏼 ◼️ Ramaphosa warns against efforts to destabilise SA: President Cyril Ramaphosa has slammed critics trying to smear the country’s image, saying regional neighbours must respect local legal processes. That was the clear message from the president during a heated Q&A session with the […]
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Tue 25 August 2026: Abductors have shared a video appearing to show a large group of captives held by armed men in a wooded area of Nigeria. The footage surfaced on Sunday, two days after gunmen seized as many as 600 worshippers during Friday prayers at a mosque in Dekera village in Niger state, in […]
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Tue 25 August 2026: Escalating conflict in Sudan has displaced another 200,000 people from their homes, including nearly 11,000 who fled two villages in North Kordofan over three days, further straining an already dire humanitarian situation, the UN said Wednesday. The UN International Organization for Migration (IOM) said the recent escalation had forced another 200,000 […]
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Tue 25 August 2026: Hundreds of demonstrators have gathered in the streets of Tunisia’s capital, demanding the removal of President Kais Saied and the reinstatement of democracy. On Thursday, protesters in Tunis expressed their opposition to “one-man rule” and warned against a “slide towards dictatorship,” while also calling for the freedom of imprisoned opposition leaders, […]
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Tue 25 August 2026: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today: 👇🏼 ◼️ Sassa grant reviews strand vulnerable South Africans in systemic chaos: An intensified grant review process by the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) has turned into a nightmare for South Africa’s most vulnerable. Launched to weed out fraud, the nationwide audit has […]
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Mon 24 August 2026: A widening diplomatic rift is complicating efforts to confront a shared cross-border security threat. Abuja, Nigeria – In December 2025, Burkina Faso detained 11 Nigerian Air Force personnel after their C-130 transport aircraft made an emergency landing in Bobo-Dioulasso while travelling to Portugal for scheduled maintenance. Burkina Faso said the aircraft had […]
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Mon 24 August 2026: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today: 👇🏼 ◼️ South Africans are taxed to death: Economist Dawie Roodt said that all South African political parties promise to spend public funds better. However, none of them promises to spend less. They have no plan to cut government spending and, as a result, […]
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Sun 23 August 2026: Botswana announced on Saturday that several of its citizens were stopped at airports in Botswana, South Africa, and Ethiopia while trying to travel to Russia to enlist in the Russian military fighting against Ukraine. International Relations Minister Phenyo Butale said 22 Batswana had so far been drawn into deceptive recruitment schemes, […]
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Sun 23 August 2026: Severe, life-threatening child malnutrition is surging in Somalia after more than 200 health and nutrition centres were compelled to close due to reductions in international aid, the United Nations has cautioned. The East African nation recorded a 32 percent rise in children admitted for severe acute malnutrition with complications during the […]
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Sat 22 August 2026: Every electric vehicle, smartphone and laptop battery begins with one essential ingredient: lithium. The critical mineral sits at the centre of the global transition to cleaner energy. Lithium powers rechargeable batteries. Securing its supply is, therefore, an economic and geopolitical priority. The International Energy Agency expects global lithium demand to increase as electric vehicle production […]
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