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Fast moving: The Faizan Global Relief Foundation (FGRF) launched a food distribution campaign targeting
100 000 vulnerable households across Malawi in February. Photo: Radio Islam Malawi/Facebook

Malawi’s aid vacuum draws new actors

As Western donors pull back and food insecurity deepens in the landlocked south-eastern African nation, the rise of a UK-registered Islamic charity is exposing both the necessity…

The maize imports are limited and exports to various destinations in the world continue. Photo: File

SA’s agricultural export growth cools slightly in second quarter of 2024

Despite this drop, trade figures remain encouraging, but various departments need to address policy and other issues to boost exports

Talkin’ bout a revolution: The cases of Bangladesh, Kenya and Nigeria

Leaders need to learn to listen and swiftly enter into discussions with the masses, otherwise they will face protests, which can be devastating

Workers carry ice blocks on a hand cart  in New Delhi on May 30, 2024, amid an ongoing heatwave. Temperature readings in the city rose into the high 40s Celsius on May 29, with power usage in the city, where the population is estimated at more than 30 million, surging to a record high. (Photo by Money SHARMA / AFP)

In the face of climate change, extreme heat is a human rights crisis

National and local governments should adopt and implement heat action plans to guide heatwave preparation and emergency response

Nancy Karigithu is one of seven contenders pitching for the top job at the International Maritime Organisation

Kenyan aims to be first woman, African to lead UN maritime body

Nancy Karigithu is one of seven contenders pitching for the top job at the International Maritime Organisation

South Africa’s Marizanne Kapp (L) and Chloé Tryon run between the wickets during the warm-up match between England and South Africa at Bert Sutcliffe Oval in Lincoln on March 2, 2022, ahead of the Women’s Cricket World Cup tournament which begins on March 4. (Photo by Sanka Vidanagama / AFP) (Photo by SANKA VIDANAGAMA/AFP via Getty Images)

Cricket World Cup: Do the Proteas tick all the boxes?

South Africa must prove they can hold their nerve when the T20 World Cup kicks off on Friday

MUMBAI, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA – 2022/01/29: A Muslim man wearing a protective face mask checks his phone as he walks past a graffiti in Mumbai.
Coronavirus graffiti’s are painted to create awareness and spread the message about maintaining social distance, wearing face masks and sanitizing regularly. (Photo by Ashish Vaishnav/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

India today: A place between hope and despair

Diversity is especially meant to be celebrated on India’s Republic Day, 26 January. But another legacy haunts the Indian republic — the colonial policy of divide and rule, of…

A professional healthcare worker wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) carry an oxygen tank inside a temporary ward dedicated to the treatment of possible Covid-19 patients at Steve Biko Academic Hospital in Pretoria on January 11, 2021. (Photo by Phill Magakoe/AFP)

After India: The countries on the brink of another Covid oxygen crisis

The need for medical oxygen to treat Covid-19 patients in low- and middle-income countries has more than doubled in the past two months, and many of these countries faced oxygen…

Going viral: The tremors of the coronavirus pandemic will hit India’s economy, which is shot through with fault lines that have deepened since it began to liberalise its economy in the early 1990s. People in Mumbai line up outside a store to buy groceries following the announcement of a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure. (Indranil Mukherjee/AFP/Getty Images)

Surviving Covid-19 — and Modi

A religious and nationalist agenda has replaced the promise of development and left India ill-equipped to manage the pandemic

As the Covid-19 pandemic continues in its second year, the global organised crime network remains rife. (Fadel Senna/ AFP)

We must fight the scourge of child domestic labour

More than 17-million children around the world are involved in domestic labour. The recent death of 17-year-old Salome Zacharia in Tanzania highlights their plight

Malawi became only the second country in Africa, after Kenya in 2017, and the fifth in the world, to see a president’s victory overturned in the courts.

Discrediting elections: Why the opposition playbook carries risks

By pushing their usually valid complaints onto the streets and the courts, opposition leaders deny governments the popular goodwill and international credibility they need to…

An organisation says the devices reduce children’s ability to concentrate and learn effectively. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Cellphones the front line for gender equality

Access to cellphones is not an end in itself. Rather, it is a way to level the playing field not only through knowledge, but also through connection

From shades of startling red to hues of vivid tangerine

Orange is the new grey for Bangladeshi beards

Facial hair of sunset tones is now the go-to look for older men wanting to take off the years, with an array of henna options available

Heads down: Proteas skipper Faf du Plessis (right) needs a miracle if his side are to reach the world cup semifinals. (Gallo)

‘Harsh words’ in store for South Africa flops, warns Du Plessis

The Proteas slumped to a 21 run defeat in the Cricket World Cup to leave their campaign in shambles

The sun rises above the Seine River skyline in central Paris. Safety limits were most frequently exceeded in Asia and Africa, but samples from Europe and the Americas showed that the problem is global in scope. (Reuters/Pascal Rossignol)

World’s rivers loaded with antibiotics waste: study

Scientists found one or more common antibiotics in two-thirds of 711 samples taken from rivers in 72 countries

Wa Lone in police custody. The case against has become a cause celebre for press freedom. (Ann Wang/Reuters)

Top Myanmar court rejects appeal of Reuters journalists

Reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo have been behind bars since their arrest in December 2017 under the colonial-era Official Secrets Act

(Carlo Allegri/Reuters)

The human cost of fast fashion

Oxfam report reveals 100% of workers surveyed at Bangladeshi factories which make clothes for H&M and Cotton On are unable to make ends meet.

An army vehicle patrols the city during a general election in Dhaka, Bangladesh, December 30 2018. (Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters)

12 killed in Bangladesh election day violence

Three men were shot by police while six others died in clashes between activists from the ruling Awami League Party and opposition BNP

Bangladesh, which has more than 92 million internet users, has a history of blocking websites and key social media such as Facebook and YouTube. (Reuters)

Bangladesh slows internet ahead of election

At the end of an election campaign marked by deadly violence, internet services were slowed across the country with 3G and 4G services suspended

A handful of soldiers have been charged by Myanmar for involvement in a single massacre but UN special rapporteur Yanghee Lee has tempered expectations that Myanmar’s generals would stand trial anytime soon. (Reuters)

Catalogue of abuse: Seeking justice for the Rohingya

Different teams of investigators in the world’s biggest refugee camp in Bangladesh have been quietly documenting the events of 2017