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The virus takes its name from the Ebola River, near the site of one of the first recorded outbreaks in what is now the DRC, in 1976.

Ebola, conflict and disease surveillance

The virus takes its name from the Ebola River, near the site of one of the first recorded outbreaks in what is now the DRC, in 1976. Four of these six species are known to cause…

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) says more than 11,000 pregnant women in the earthquake-affected areas are in urgent need of assistance. – Credit UNFPA

Global wars and fuel shocks are putting pregnant women at greater risk of dying in childbirth

As wars disrupt fuel supplies and health systems, more women are being forced to give birth without timely access to skilled care

King Mohammed VI

Morocco welcomes UN support for Western Sahara talks

Despite the positive developments, the King assured that his country remains committed to finding a solution where there are no winners or losers – a solution that preserves the…

Asylum seekers and refugees leave their home countries because life has become intolerable. They seek safety and understanding.

Don’t call asylum seekers and refugees makwerekwere; make them feel at home

Talk to people to understand why they fled their home county and the difficulties they face in South Africa

The court can step in and help protect the interests of vulnerable people like older people with conditions such as dementia. Photo: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis/Getty Images

Curatorship: A cause of or cure for conflict?

The court can step in and help protect the interests of vulnerable people like older people with conditions such as dementia.

President Cyril Ramaphosa

G20 meetings will go on with or without the US, says Ramaphosa

At the G20 foreign ministers’ meeting in Johannesburg, the president also stressed the need for inclusivity in tackling pressing global problems, from geopolitical tensions to…

Slain: A picture of cameraman Muntasir al-Sawaf, 33, killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza, at a memorial event. Photo: Abdullah Asiran/Getty Images

South African filmmakers call for cultural boycott against Israel

Media groups urge action to protect those risking their lives to document the crisis in Gaza

A woman mourns the people killed and kidnapped on 7 October 2023 in Israel. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)

Israel marks first anniversary of Hamas’s 7 October attack

The attack claimed more than 1 200 lives, while more than 41 000 people, the majority civilians, have been killed in Israel’s war on Gaza

Port Sudan, Sudan | 2023 11 14-16 | Preparation work for the Lion Rescue mission in Port Sudan, Sudan.

Fifty wild animals rescued from Sudanese war zone

Local wildlife groups and an international organisation work together to save 50 animals trapped in a conflict area This content is restricted to registered users and…

Next month, the UN Security Council (UNSC) will reconvene to consider the implementation of the arms embargo it imposed on South Sudan’s territory in 2018, which expires on 31 May 2023. Photo: Supplied. Photo: AFP

How South Sudan downplays gross human rights’ violations

The lead-up to next year’s first-ever elections will likely see heightened political disputes, competition and defections – developments that can quickly turn deadly

Chris Maroleng
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Cabo Delgado, Mozambique: Reflections on the state of conflict after five years

Military interventions will not solve the underlying problems that caused the ‘insurgency’ in the first place

Men of the Madi tribe fishing with bows and arrows at the Fola Rapids on the White Nile, close to the Ugandan border near Nimule, Sudan, circa 1952. Nimule is now in the Republic of South Sudan. Original publication: Picture Post – 5638 – Bowmen Fishers Of The Nile – pub. 15th March 1952  (Photo by Bert Hardy/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Water shortages cause conflicts across Africa

With 700 million people at risk of being displaced by water scarcity by 2030, and no way to increase the world’s potable water supply, the continent must mitigate the risk via…

South Africa’s defence minister, Thandi Modise. (Gallo)

Defence minister Thandi Modise in Moscow for security conference

Discussions about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are absent from the official programme

Minister of International Relations and Co-operation Naledi Pandor. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Pandor: Blinken did not come to tell SA to choose sides in the Ukraine-Russia war

The US secretary of state said that when one country invades another country, sovereignty and independence mattered

(Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Inform people about climate change to reduce conflict, violence with migrants in South Africa

The country is ill-equipped to respond to the devastation caused by the climate crisis and must develop mitigation strategies

Security forces inspect at the site after a Russian missile attack as Russia-Ukraine war continues in Kramatorsk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine on July 19, 2022. (FILE PHOTO by Metin Aktas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Russia’s war on Ukraine could turn private

The expanding use of private military and security companies in recent years suggests that they may take a leading role as the Ukraine conflict develops

Maasai land in Tanzania earmarked for UAE royals

Protracted effort by authorities to evict the pastoralists in Loliondo for safari tourism has led to violent confrontation

Richards Bay terminal

Chieftaincy dispute hits Richards Bay Minerals production

The KZN department of co-operative governance has undertaken to resolve the dispute it created by dethroning the sitting inkosi in 2010

Hotspots: Armoured vehicles from Operation Barkhane, led by the French military against Islamist groups in the Sahel region, are handed over to the Malian army in Timbuktu. (Photo: Florent Vergnes/AFP)

What’s in store for the African continent in 2022?

Conflict hotspots, most in the Sahel region, will continue to dominate the news this year, while a number of countries will hold key elections.

A man wears a traditional Kankurang mask along the beach in the popular tourist area of Senegambia in Banjul on December 6, 2021. (Photo: John Wessels/AFP)

The Continent: Africa A-Z of 2021

The highlights of 2021 in Africa