NCDs include conditions such as diabetes, cancer, heart disease, and chronic respiratory diseases. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has urged African countries to strengthen patient safety in the care of people living with noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). WHO Regional Director for Africa, Mohamed Janabi, made the call on Thursday in a message to mark World Patient…
The Trump administration has announced that it will impose travel bans on officials it claims are responsible for discrimination against White people and other minority groups in South Africa. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Tuesday he would revoke U.S. visas or reject visa applications from foreign nationals found to be responsible for, or…
The Cape Flats in Cape Town was shaped by apartheid-era forced removals and racial segregation. If you scan headlines about the area, you’ll be overwhelmed with stories about extreme violence, fuelled by gangsterism and drugs. However, the area is also home to people working to improve their communities through medicine, science, technology, and more. Image…
Across Africa, people are restoring and managing mangroves, grazing lands and urban green areas in the face of increasing threats from climate change. Increasingly they make decisions based on climate-related information supplied by governments, funders and researchers. But are they getting the information they need? We are researchers working on ecosystem restoration and the links…
In South Africa, the debate about protecting young people from drugs is increasingly raising a different question: are current policies actually helping those who need support most? Charity Monareng, Executive Director of Students for Sensible Drug Policy International, said answering that question requires looking beyond prevention and asking whether young people have meaningful access to…
A tourist coach has crashed in the south-eastern Swiss Alps, leaving several people dead and several injured, local police say. The bus overturned between Susch and Zernez in the Graubünden – also known as Grisons – region late on Thursday afternoon. A large team of rescuers equipped with several helicopters was deployed to the scene….
An Oxford University museum has agreed to return the remains of 39 people who were taken during Britain’s colonial rule in India. The university’s Pitt Rivers Museum says it is preparing to repatriate the remains of 39 people taken from the Naga community in northeast India. The decision came after the university approved a restitution…
Why people hate repeating themselves: The psychology of contact centres. There are few phrases in customer service that can change the emotional temperature of a conversation as quickly as: “Can you explain the issue again?” It sounds harmless and sometimes it is even necessary. Yet for the customer, the request can feel like far more…
Gaza’s Health Ministry reports rising casualties amid escalated Israeli attacks, with victims trapped under rubble. Published On 29 Aug 202629 Aug 2026 Several people have been wounded in an Israeli strike on a medical warehouse inside a hospital compound in central Gaza, while separate attacks killed two people elsewhere in the Strip. The Israeli drone…
Rescue teams were searching for hundreds of missing people along the Nepal-China border Thursday after a catastrophic, deadly torrent of floods and mud swept through several communities a day earlier following a glacial collapse. The head of Nepal’s tourism board told CBS News Thursday that 65 U.S. nationals were among those missing in the wake…
