Rio de Janeiro, Brazil — For two decades, donor funding helped build one of the world’s most successful HIV responses. Now, as the United States scales back support, legal scholar Mnotho Ngcobo says Africa is confronting not just a funding crisis, but a constitutional and ethical one. Ngcobo, an assistant professor of law at the…
A Law student at the University of Abuja, Amra Onize Salihu, has emerged champion at the 9th Inter-Universities Speech Contest organised by the Intergovernmental Action Group Against Money Laundering in West Africa (GIABA), held in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Amra, a 500-level student in the Faculty of Law, represented Nigeria after winning the national selection conducted…
Bramley Maetsa, IT digital and innovation enablement lead at Sasol. Something interesting is happening in enterprise AI right now. Organisations are celebrating how many AI agents they have built. How many pilots are running. How many employees have access to AI tools. How many use cases are in production. These are the wrong numbers to…
Police warnings around unauthorised drone activity during the 2026 Comrades Marathon have renewed attention on South Africa’s drone regulations and growing concerns around compliance. South Africa’s approach to drone regulation came into focus ahead of the 2026 Comrades Marathon after the South African Police Service (SAPS) warned that the entire 86km route would operate as…
When the South African Police Service declared the entire Comrades Marathon route a no-fly zone this month, permitting only authorised aircraft and warning that any unauthorised drone would be dealt with in accordance with the law, it did more than secure a sporting event. It confirmed something most South Africans would rather not hear: a…
New law grants president power to use military to clear roadblocks set up amid weeks of anti-government demonstrations. Published On 7 Jun 20267 Jun 2026 Bolivia’s legislature has passed a law granting President Rodrigo Paz the authority to use the military to clear roadblocks set up by antigovernment protesters. The legislation passed in Bolivia’s Chamber…
The author, Wiehann Olivier For years, one question in South Africa’s cryptocurrency debate has been deceptively simple: if bitcoin is bought in South Africa and moved to a wallet linked to an offshore custodian, has capital left the country? A new high court ruling brings that question into focus – not as a debate about…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has apologized to members of a Canadian community where a mass shooting took place earlier this year for not flagging the ChatGPT account of the shooter to law enforcement. “The pain your community has endured is unimaginable,” Altman wrote in a letter shared Friday on social media by the British Columbia…
NewsFeed Dozens of activists and families of Palestinian prisoners protested in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank after Israeli lawmakers approved a bill allowing the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of deadly attacks. Published On 31 Mar 202631 Mar 2026 Click here to share on social media share2 Share googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo
A member of Ben-Gvir’s party, Limor Son-Har-Melech, who survived an attack by Palestinian gunmen in which her husband was killed, argued that the law was necessary, citing the example of how one of her husband’s killers was later released and went on to take part in the 7 October 2023 attacks on Israel.
