East Africa Stability in Focus During Egypt-Kenya Foreign Ministers Call

East Africa Stability in Focus During Egypt-Kenya Foreign Ministers Call

Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty discussed in a phone call on Thursday 7/8/2025 with Kenya’s Prime Cabinet Secretary and Cabinet Secretary for Foreign and Diaspora Affairs, Musalia Mudavadi, recent regional developments in East Africa. According to the Egyptian Foreign Ministry, the two ministers affirmed their commitment to ongoing coordination in regional and international fora to…

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Stop the ‘Please Call Me’ madness

Stop the ‘Please Call Me’ madness

ITWeb contributor Phillip de Wet. The villain of the moment is the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA), which really, deeply, and utterly screwed it up. But at heart, the Please Call Me saga is the fault of lawyers, or rather the two pig-headed clients, Vodacom and Nkosana Makate, who should have stopped listening to those…

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East Africa Stability in Focus During Egypt-Kenya Foreign Ministers Call

Africa: Call for Urgent SA Pesticide Action Plan to Protect Farm Workers – – and Consumers

NGOs report limited resources for consumer education and pesticide testing, which they believe hinders effective enforcement of pesticide limits. They also perceive a governmental reluctance to implement significant changes. The African Centre for Biodiversity (Acbio) released a compilation of the past two decades of research on pesticide use in South Africa on 21 July 2025,…

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East Africa Stability in Focus During Egypt-Kenya Foreign Ministers Call

Africa: Call to Protect the Nation’s Oceans

As South Africa joins the international community to celebrate Marine Protectors Day, the Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, Dr Dion George, has called on all South Africans to protect the nation’s oceans. “Whether through reducing plastic waste, supporting sustainable seafood choices, or participating in coastal clean-up initiatives, every action counts. Together, we can…

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African MPs Demand Reparations for Slavery, Colonialism, and Exploitation in Historic Call

African MPs Demand Reparations for Slavery, Colonialism, and Exploitation in Historic Call

African legislators attending the 5th Ordinary Session of the Pan-African Parliament (PAP) in Midrand, South Africa, have made an unprecedented joint demand for reparations from former colonial powers, citing centuries of injustice, theft, and oppression. Gambian MP Sulayman Saho likened the trans-Atlantic slave trade to a “holocaust,” saying it claimed millions of African lives and…

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Palestinian American Saif Mussallet’s killing in Israeli-occupied West Bank draws U.S. call for investigation

Palestinian American Saif Mussallet’s killing in Israeli-occupied West Bank draws U.S. call for investigation

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee said Tuesday that he had “asked Israel to aggressively investigate the murder of Saif Mussallet,” a Palestinian American national who was visiting family in the Israeli-occupied West Bank when “he was beaten to death.” “There must be accountability for this criminal and terrorist act,” Huckabee said in a social media…

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Spam call epidemic: operators say their hands are tied

Spam call epidemic: operators say their hands are tied

Data privacy and unlawful interception of information laws prevent South Africa’s mobile operators from getting tougher in the first against spam calls at the network layer – but interventions taken in international markets including Australia suggests more can still be done. TechCentral reported last week that South Africa’s spam call epidemic is getting worse, despite…

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