Dashcam footage is bringing renewed attention to e-hailing crime, amid calls for stronger identity checks and coordinated policing. (Image created via Gemini) The growing circulation of dashcam footage showing criminal incidents involving e-hailing vehicles in South Africa is exposing a safety crisis that industry representatives say has persisted for years. Over the past few months,…
FIFA and the Confederation of African Football (CAF) have said that they are yet to reach a conclusion on the crisis in Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), insisting that ongoing assessment of the situation will determine the direction to follow. Both bodies however confirmed the immediate suspension of the NFF electoral process and announced plans for…
Africa is facing its 17th Ebola outbreak, and this time the continent is meeting it with the most capable response architecture it has ever assembled. The outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) was declared on 15th May 2026, and both WHO and Africa CDC have classified it as a public health emergency. The…
Thousands of people have protested in cities across Spain over the government’s handling of the influx of migrants to the Spanish exclave of Ceuta on the north African coast. Spanish opposition parties accuse Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of abandoning the residents of Ceuta, while the government says right-wing parties are exploiting the crisis. On Wednesday…
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has accused networks linked to Russia and Israel of spreading disinformation around the migration crisis in Ceuta, claiming the two countries were exploiting the issue in retaliation for Madrid’s position on the war in Ukraine and Israel’s actions in the Palestinian Territories. More than 72,000 migrants rushed across the border…
Heads of state, agriculture and finance ministers and investors meet in Kigali from August 31 for the Africa Food Systems Forum, the continent’s largest agricultural gathering. They arrive with an opportunity: to build a food system that holds up against what is coming – climate change, biodiversity loss and declining soil health, alongside our dependence…
When I worked for The Harvest Fund, I sat across from women-farmers who had just completed training in milling, business development, food safety. Competent women. Women who had shown up every day, taken notes, asked questions. And then, when we asked them what they wanted to do next what they wanted to build some of…
The nearly nine-month extended deployment of the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Middle East has triggered a mental health crisis among the crew so intense that some sailors have tried to jump overboard, according to some US media reports. Family members of the exhausted military crew on board the flagship aircraft carrier, reportedly located in the Gulf…
NEW DELHI, INDIA – JULY 20: Security personnel carry out Lathi charge during CJP protest March to near the Parliament House on July 20, 2026 in New Delhi, India. (Photo by Raj K Raj/Hindustan Times via Getty Images) Hindustan Times | Hindustan Times | Getty Images India’s youth unemployment crisis has become one of the…
Italy is not the only country to see Spain as soft on migration, though. Meloni’s call for an urgent meeting of interior ministers to be held on Tuesday was signed by almost two dozen EU heads of state, calling for the elimination of all policies that could be “pull factors” to Europe. Above all, they…
