December 09, 2024
South Africa: 13 Killed in Free State Crashes - South African News Briefs - December 09, 2024
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December 06, 2024
South Africa: Le Kip Kip Revolutionizes HIV Prevention Conversations Among South African Women [interview]
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Venessa Chen - a research program coordinator at the Program for Implementation Equity Research within the Johns Hopkins Center for Public Health and Human Rights - shared her… Read more »
Africa: 'We Are Still Losing People To Mpox'
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Africa continues to experience an increase in Mpox cases with hundreds of new infections confirmed in the past week, the Africa Centres for Disease Control warned in its latest… Read more »
Southern Africa: From '1-in-3' to Zero Tolerance - Shattering the Chains of Gender-Based Violence
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It is estimated that one out of eight women and girls will experience sexual violence before the age of 18 as a result of gender-based violence. Read more »
South Africa: Spaza Shop Registration Raises Concerns - South African News Briefs - December 06, 2024
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December 05, 2024
South Africa: Human Rights Groups Launch Fundraiser for Stilfontein Miners
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Human rights activists, in collaboration with families and supported by Action Aid and the Red Cross, launched a fundraiser to aid thousands of artisanal miners trapped… Read more »
Africa: World AIDS Day - This Is How We Can Fight the Second Biggest Killer of People with HIV [guest column]
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When I recently visited a hospital ward in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, I left feeling deeply distraught. Over a dozen patients with HIV were admitted with cryptococcal… Read more »
South Africa: South Africa is The World's Largest Exporter of Live Tigers
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South Africa is the world's largest exporter of live tigers and their parts despite not having any captive-breeding facilities registered in terms of the Convention on… Read more »
South Africa: South African Airways Pilots to Protest Over Pay - South African News Briefs - December 05, 2024
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December 04, 2024
Africa: To Trump-Proof Climate, The Global South Must Take The Lead [guest column]
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This year's COP29 in Baku was the most precarious climate summit yet. It was far more fractious and far less ambitious than earlier COPs. Halfway through the meeting, many climate… Read more »
South Africa: Trapped Illegal Miners Request Beef and Porridge - South African News Briefs - December 04, 2024
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December 03, 2024
South Africa: Eskom Suspends Power Cuts to Johannesburg - South African News Briefs - December 03, 2024
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Africa: Power of Choice - Family Planning as a Tool for Sustainable Development [guest column]
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Imagine a world where men bear the burden of family planning but lack the power to make decisions about it; a world in which the societal expectation to be fathers and husbands… Read more »
December 02, 2024
South Africa: Anti-Immigrant Sentiment Grows During Spaza Shop Controversy
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Spaza shops have been a key topic in South Africa's online xenophobic dialogue for years because many of these convenience stores are owned by Africans from other parts of the… Read more »
Guinea: Scores Killed In Stadium Stampede
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More than 50 were killed in a stampede at a football stadium in Guinea's second-largest city of Nzerekore, according to the BBC. The provisional number of fatalities stating dozens… Read more »
South Sudan: Malaria Vaccine in South Sudan - Now It's Time for Life-Saving Pneumonia and Rotavirus Vaccines [guest column]
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In 2019, South Sudan experienced significant child mortality from preventable diseases. Pneumonia and diarrhea were particularly deadly, accounting for 19% and 10% of under-5… Read more »
South Africa: Five Suspected Robbers Killed in Mpumalanga Shootout - South African News Briefs - December 02, 2024
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Africa: Food and Agriculture Announcements at COP29 were Positive Steps [guest column]
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At its most human level, growth is the purpose of life. Avoid the death trap of under 5 child mortality - something roughly 13,400 children per day fail to do - and then hope for… Read more »
December 01, 2024
Africa: A Tomato, Sex and HIV - The High Cost of Inequalities [guest column]
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This World AIDS Day, we have some good news. Our collective efforts are yielding results. There has been major progress in the HIV response in East and Southern Africa, the region… Read more »
November 29, 2024
South Africa: Over 1,000 Spaza Shops Shut Down in National Crackdown - South African News Briefs - November 29, 2024
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November 28, 2024
Uganda: Heavy Rains Trigger Deadly Landslide in Eastern Uganda
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Rescue operations are underway in eastern Uganda after a devastating landslide that swept away dozens of houses and left 13 people dead, the BBC reported. Officials fear the… Read more »
Africa: Political Will Needed to End Violence Against Women and Girls in Africa [guest column]
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This week Africa celebrates the 19th anniversary of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (the Maputo Protocol),… Read more »
South Africa: KwaZulu-Natal Braces for Damaging Storms - South African News Briefs - November 28, 2024
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November 27, 2024
Africa: Biden's Angola Trip 'Recognises How U.S. Prosperity is Tied to African Partners'
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President Joe Biden's visit to Angola is intended to amplify how U.S. leadership impacted trade, investment, and Infrastructure in the region, and highlight the "remarkable… Read more »
South Africa: Police Foil Kidnapping Attempt in Ivory Park - South African News Briefs - November 27, 2024
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