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On Wednesday, 15 April 2026 Burkina Faso’s ministry of territorial administration and mobility announced the dissolution of 118 NGOs and associations and banned their activities.

Burkina Faso is right to regulate NGOs

The West does not have a moral claim over African security. African states retain the right to choose partners according to their own historical interests. A multipolar world…

Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al Thani. Photo: File

Israel’s strike on Doha targets diplomacy and the rules of law

The attacks was the culmination of months of planning, political narrative and expansionist strategy

Palestinians walks amid the destruction in the Shujaiya neighbourhood of Gaza City, in the northern Gaza Strip on January 4, 2025, as the war between Israel and Hamas militants continues. (Photo by Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

Unmatched cruelty in Gaza while world celebrates the new year

While Benjamin Netanyahu keeps boasting about having defeated Hamas and gleefully claiming that it is not a threat, his soldiers continue their killing spree under his orders

Tough choices: Palestinian journalist Youmna el Sayed.

The media has failed Gaza — journalist Youmna El Sayed says

After months of reporting on Israel’s war against Palestine, a mother of four young children was forced to flee to Egypt with her family

Journalists take pictures and videos of media equipment on the ground representing the reporters killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza as part of January 10 Working Journalists’ Day commemorations organised by Ankara Palestine Solidarity Platform at Guvenpark of Ankara, Turkiye on January 10, 2024. (Photo by Harun Ozalp/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Journalist killings are a loss to all

In a crisis-hit world, attacks on newsrooms and media workers leave us worse off

Sasfin told Al Jazeera it was taking vigorous action against suspended and former employees and clients of its foreign exchange unit. Photo: Supplied

Staff at Standard Bank, Absa and Sasfin implicated in money laundering

Al Jazeera reported that employees at the top South African banks were paid bribes to launder money for gold smugglers

Can they believe him? A couple watch Vladimir Putin on TV in their home in Luzki near Moscow. Putin has blocked access to foreign news outlets and FaceBook and enacted a law to punish anyone spreading ‘false information’ about Russia’s war on Ukraine. Photo: Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP

False propaganda offends human dignity

Russia Today convinced me that Vladimir Putin is a liar and a power-hungry empire builder

No to coup: Sudanese protesters denounce overnight detentions by the army of government members on 25 October. (AFP)

Sudan releases Al Jazeera bureau chief

The arrest of Al-Musalami al-Kabbashi was the latest since a military coup three weeks ago and came after tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets on Saturday to…

(John McCann/M&G)

The Icelandic fisherman who fought the sharks – and won

The story of Johannes Stefansson, who helped to pay massive bribes in Namibia – and survived death threats from Cape gangsters, and a poisoning attempt, to blow the whistle

(Reuters)

M&G joins global climate reporting network

The Mail & Guardian has joined one of the most ambitious reporting collaborations in history, joining 250 other newsrooms reporting the climate crisis

Lost: People evacuated from Syria’s last Isis-held holdout of Baghouz are transported to the Al Hol refugee camp. South African Safiya Ganchi and her children may be among them. (Bulent Kilic/AFP)

Silence surrounds SA doc in Syria

Isis is about to be vanquished in Syria. But its shadow looms large in South Africa

The allegations were first made in a book by a whistleblower from inside Australia’s failed 2022 bid, Bonita Mersiades, in January.

FIFA urged to probe Qatar World Cup allegations

A lucrative TV deal allegedly led to Qatar being awarded the 2022 tournament

Governments are also increasingly trying to make the use of online services and social media more difficult generally. (Reuters)

Nigerian political parties are weaponising fake news

According to new research, the volume of disinformation and fake news in the run-up to the Nigerian election is unprecedented

Get the picture: Despite criticism, online ‘big boys’ such as Mark Zuckerberg’s (centre) Facebook and Google, pose threats to new media because they put commercial interests above journalistic independence. (Leah Millis/Reuters)

Cyberbullies a threat to new media

Independent journalism needs protection from self-censorship and commercial pressures

Speaking at an investment conference in Riyadh, due to end on Thursday, the Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman pledged there would be “no rupture” in ties with Ankara. (Reuters)

Saudi Arabia demands Qatar close Al Jazeera, sever ties with Iran

The Gulf crisis escalated late Thursday, as Kuwait presented Qatar with a 13-point list of demands from Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, and Egypt.

Protesters have called on the release of Al Jazeera journalists.

Egypt pardons and releases jailed Al-Jazeera journalists

Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed were pardoned by the president, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, along with about 100 other prisoners.

Energy minister Jeff Radebe. (Madelene Cronje/M&G)

Radebe: Spy cables leak may put SA’s security at risk

Minister in the Presidency, Jeff Radebe, has condemned the spy cables leak and welcomed the State Security Agency’s investigation into the matter.

The businessman’s company says it can prove that it owns a disputed farm.

Jailed Al-Jazeera journalists freed pending retrial

Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed were freed after spending more than 400 days in an Egyptian prison, and must appear in court again on February 23.

Egypt court orders retrial of jailed Al-Jazeera reporters

Egypt’s top court has ordered a retrial of three reporters whose imprisonment on charges of aiding the Muslim Brotherhood triggered global outrage.

Poster for Amnesty International’s campaign for the Al-Jazeera journalists.

Journalism is not a crime

The Egypt case has received international attention, but less attention has been given to journalists under fire in the rest of Africa.