Pope Leo XIV urged action on hunger, calling food a fundamental human right and warning conflict is driving food insecurity worldwide, during a visit to WFP headquarters in Rome. Pope Leo XIV called on the international community to strengthen commitment and resources to tackling the root causes of hunger and malnutrition, describing access to adequate…
Questions are mounting over the Southern African Development Community’s response to rising Afrophobic violence in South Africa after a highly anticipated report on the crisis was quietly withdrawn from the agenda of an Extraordinary Organ Troika Summit, denying regional leaders the opportunity to formally deliberate on one of the bloc’s most sensitive and pressing issues….
South Africa to Spend R600m to Prepare for 30 June Anti-Immigration Protests Acting Police Minister Firoz Cachalia has warned that law enforcement will act decisively against any violence, intimidation, or criminality during planned anti-immigrant protests on 30 June. Cachalia said that while peaceful protest is a constitutional right, participants must not carry weapons. The…
Bunia/Nairobi/Geneva, 22 June 2026 – The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) continues to deliver essential materials to areas affected by the Bundibugyo Ebola virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and is prepositioning supplies in neighboring countries (Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, and South Sudan) as part of a 2.9…
Canal+ is moving to embed MultiChoice’s streaming service directly into the living room, in the clearest sign yet that the enlarged group is rebuilding its distribution around connected televisions rather than satellite decoders. From 1 June, the DStv Stream app is being pre-installed on all new Samsung smart TVs sold across 18 English- and Portuguese-speaking…
From a gold collar worn by an enslaved African to music preserved for nearly a century after the Holocaust, a staged reconstruction of a hate radio broadcast or porcelain coffee cups laid out in participatory remembrance, artists in a United Nations discussion on Friday used powerful images to underscore how culture can shape the fight…
Africa faces declining aid, rising debt, climate pressure and a weakening global order. Official development assistance, the technical term for foreign aid, fell by 23.1% in 2025, the largest annual contraction on record. It’s projected to decline by a further 5.8% in 2026, before accounting for strain from the current crisis in the Middle East….
A new industry report from the FinTech Association of South Africa (Finasa) has found that a decade of fintech innovation has transformed the landscape for connected, urban South Africans – but left informal economies and township merchants largely behind. South Africa’s fintech sector has had a remarkable decade. New digital banks have grown to millions…
Innovators – especially in the Global South – are too often locked out of funding and opportunity despite offering solutions to some of the world’s most pressing challenges. Malaria wasn’t on Masaki Umeda’s mind when his drone startup, SORA Technology, launched in 2020 in Nagoya, Japan. Back then, he and his colleagues were focused on…
As South Africa becomes the ninth African country to introduce the use of new long-acting drug lenacapavir for HIV prevention, RFI spoke with infectious disease specialist Ndong Essomba Bitchoka about how the treatment works, whether the supply will meet demand and why developing an HIV vaccine remains a challenge. New long-acting antiretroviral treatment lenacapavir requires…
