London & Srinagar, India — At least 124 land and environmental defenders were killed around the world in 2025 while protecting forests, rivers, farmland and Indigenous territories, according to a new report by Global Witness that warns violence against activists remains widespread even as recorded killings have declined from previous years. The report, titled Collective…
South Africa has been selected to host the 2028 World Robot Olympiad (WRO) International Final. The event, showing on the African continent for the first time, will take place at the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC) during the second week of December of that year. Supplied image: Team Resolute and WRO 2026 WRO participation…
“The donor wanted the organisation to expand quickly. The organisation said the communities it was already working with needed deeper support before it moved elsewhere. So they made a tough decision.” When a donor offered money to an organization working in Kenya, it came with an opportunity to expand its work into more communities. For…
Prosecutors have requested a 45-year jail sentence for Thaci and three wartime commanders accused of war crimes. Published On 16 Sep 202616 Sep 2026 The Kosovo war crimes tribunal will on Wednesday deliver its verdicts in the case of former President Hashim Thaci and several wartime commanders accused of murder and torture during the self-declared…
Each September, New York becomes the centre of global diplomacy as presidents, prime ministers, ministers and diplomats from around the world gather at United Nations Headquarters. At a time of mounting geopolitical tensions and overlapping global crises, leaders will tackle a packed agenda that includes conflicts and international security, climate change, pandemic preparedness, sea-level rise,…
Eugene Perumal, founder and principal of Valutivity. Every enterprise AI budget built on today’s flat-fee pricing is built on a number that was never real. The subsidy that made AI feel cheap is ending everywhere. In South Africa, it collides with a second, entirely local problem: the intelligence is billed in dollars, and the revenue…
U.S. Imposes Visa Restrictions Over South Africa The United States has announced visa restrictions against people it accuses of discriminating against South Africa’s white minority. This has further escalated tensions between Washington and Pretoria. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the restrictions would target people involved in what the US describes as race-based…
Customers re-fuel their cars at a petrol station as Brent crude oil prices hit $100 per barrel for the first time since May on July 23, 2026 in London, England. Leon Neal | Getty Images News | Getty Images The U.K.’s annual inflation rate jumped to 3.1% in August, pushed up by surging gasoline and…
Madagascar recorded 785 cases, the highest during the period, followed by Angola with 184, Kenya with 94, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) with 41, and Cameroon with 28. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has reported that 11 African countries recorded active transmission of mpox in the six weeks between 6 July and 16…
The US senate failed on Tuesday to advance comprehensive cryptocurrency legislation backed by President Donald Trump in a major blow for digital asset companies and Republicans who had championed the bill for months. The bill, called the Clarity Act, fell 10 short of reaching the 60-vote threshold needed to advance most legislation in the 100-seat…
