Analysis - Urban water bodies - rivers, lakes and oceans - are in trouble globally. Large sewage volumes damage the open environment, and new chemicals and pharmaceutical compounds don't break down on ...

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - President Cyril Ramaphosa says Brazil's leadership of BRICS and COP30, together with South Africa's Presidency of the G20, provides a unique opportunity to send a strong ...

Vice-President Kashim Shettima has reiterated Nigeria's commitment to a comprehensive nuclear test ban through collaboration with the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organisation (CTBTO).

Rehab is one of millions of children across Sudan whose futures have been upended by war. Since April 2023, schools across the country have shut down, forcing students out of education. Many remain in ...

UN humanitarians on Monday sounded the alarm over the worsening conditions in Sudan, as violence continues, and food and water remain at critically low levels.

Editorial - On Monday, July 7, 2025, a familiar pattern played out across Nairobi and several towns in Kenya: closed shops, empty roads, and unusually quiet city streets. Yet, this time, the ...

Uganda will need to increase its education budget by a staggering 440 percent if it is to provide quality education for its fast-growing population and meet its 2040 development targets, a new report ...

On the afternoon of June 25, police in the regional capital of Ethiopia's conflict-affected Amhara region arrested Dr. Daniel Fentaneh, a gynecologist and obstetric resident at Bahir Dar University ...

Analysis - More than 40 Malian soldiers were killed and one of the country's military bases was taken over in early June 2025 in a major attack by an al-Qaeda linked group, Jama'a Nusrat ul-Islam wa ...

UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Monday warned that the environment is being attacked on all fronts and called on the international community to urgently tackle the intersection of health and ...

On July 4, a court in Niger 's capital, Niamey, rejected an appeal filed by prominent human rights activist and government critic Moussa Tiangari. Held in detention since December 2024, the appeal was ...

South Africa does not have enough psychologists and psychiatrists to meet the mental health needs of everyone in the country.