Sat 09 August 2025: The World Health Organization on Thursday said nearly 100,000 cholera cases had been reported in Sudan since July last year, as it warned of more hunger, displacement and disease to come. Since April 2023, Sudan has been torn apart by a power struggle between army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, commander of […]
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Sat 09 August 2025: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today: ◼️ National dialogue in peril: In a joint statement released on Friday, 8 August, the foundations—including those of Steve Biko, Thabo Mbeki, Chief Albert Luthuli, Desmond and Leah Tutu, FW de Klerk, and Oliver and Adelaide Tambo—announced their immediate withdrawal from the event’s Preparatory […]
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Fri 08 August 2025: Global food prices are on the rise with extreme weather conditions caused by climate change, as prices of coffee, cocoa, and rice increased in various countries as a result of floods, storms, and high temperatures. The impact of climate change on food prices, based on various reports from different countries, was evaluated in […]
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Fri 08 August 2025: US President Donald Trump on Thursday urged all Middle Eastern countries to join the Abraham Accords, claiming Iran’s nuclear arsenal had been “totally obliterated.” “Now that the nuclear arsenal being ‘created’ by Iran has been totally OBLITERATED, it is very important to me that all Middle Eastern Countries join the Abraham Accords,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. […]
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Fri 08 August 2025: President Gustavo Petro says his government is trying to find out how many Colombians died in the attack. Sudan’s air force has destroyed a UAE aircraft carrying Colombian mercenaries as it was landing at an airport in Darfur controlled by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), army-aligned state TV reported. The […]
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Fri 08 August 2025: Leaked documents reveal Israel’s spy agency used Microsoft’s cloud to store Palestinians’ phone calls and target them. Israel’s elite cyber-intelligence unit stored vast volumes of intercepted Palestinian phone calls on Microsoft’s cloud servers, according to a joint investigation by The Guardian, +972 Magazine and Local Call. The surveillance system, operational since […]
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Fri 08 August 2025: Legal experts and activists question government inaction as citizens allegedly commit war crimes in Gaza Legal experts and human rights activists are raising alarms over the South African government’s failure to prosecute its citizens serving in the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF), creating what they describe as a state of impunity. This […]
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Thu 07 August 2025: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recognized India’s use of Israeli-supplied weapons, including the jointly developed Barak-8 missile with India’s Defence Research Development Organisation and HARPY drones, in its military operation, Operation Sindoor, launched in response to the Pahalgam terror attack. “The things we provided before worked very well on the field… […]
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Thu 07 August 2025: Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest oil company, has lost more than $800 billion in market value since its 2022 peak, Bloomberg has reported, marking a nearly 40 per cent decline and raising fresh concerns about the economic health of a kingdom still heavily reliant on fossil fuels. Shares in Aramco have fallen sharply, […]
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Thu 07 August 2025: Human Rights Watch (HRW) has confirmed that Israel has bombed more than 500 schools sheltering displaced people across the Gaza Strip since October 2023. In a statement issued on Thursday, the organisation said: “Since October 2023, Israeli authorities have carried out hundreds of strikes on schools sheltering displaced Palestinians, including unlawfully […]
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