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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

About 400 million children (one in five) live in or are fleeing war. Photo: File

Humanity in dire need in Gaza, Sudan, Syria, Ukraine, Haiti

Around the world, more than 300 million people require humanitarian assistance and protection

US involvement in the Middle East and Israel’s attacks on Iran and its retaliation make the US military base in Qatar a target

Qatar must rethink the US’s Al Udeid Military Air Base

US involvement in the Middle East and Israel’s attacks on Iran and its retaliation make the US military base in Qatar a target

A vigil remembering journalists killed in Palestine held at St.Georges Cathedral in Cape Town on 28 January 2024. Photo by Leanne Brady

The Hague Group revives the possibility of a new internationalism

The grouping, made up of Belize, Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Honduras, Malaysia, Namibia, Senegal and South Africa, is a challenge to the West on Israel’s war in Gaza

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanhayu  (right) and former defence minister Yoav Gallant. Photo: Amos Ben-Gershom (GPO)/Handout/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

Is Trump decoupling from Netanyahu?

Ramaphosa’s Washington DC visit, the US deal with the Houthis and its lifting sanctions against Syria suggests he is

Universities in Africa need to secure funding for students and build new research collaborations while not excluding US partners

Geopolitical shifts are affecting higher education on the continent

Universities in Africa need to secure funding for students and build new research collaborations while not excluding our US partners

The first two months of the Israel-Gaza war exceeded the individual annual carbon footprints of more than 20 of the world’s most climate-vulnerable nations.
 Photo: Fadi Alwhidi/Anadolu via Getty Images

SA condemns Israel’s onslaught on Gaza

The deadly airstrikes were a violation of international law, the department of international relations said

The Syrian Civil Defense (White Helmets) conduct a work at a mass grave, where remains of bodies believed to be those of civilians killed by the ousted regime of Bashar al-Assad were found, in the Baghdad Bridge area outside the capital Damascus, Syria on December 17, 2024. (Photo by Emin Sansar/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Syria: A rose for every Martyr

The unbearable atrocities committed by the Assad regime have been exposed, and the opposition forces in the form of the Hayat Tahrir Al Shaam are seeking to rebuild a shattered…

United Nations secretary general António Guterres. (Photo by Horacio Villalobos#Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)

António Guterres: It is now time for unity in Syria

The UN secretary general met International Relations Minister Ronald Lamola, who urged Israel to halt its strikes on Syria

People react to the fall of Syrian regime in Umayyad Square on December 8, 2024 in Damascus, Syria. Rebel forces in Syria claimed that they had retaken the capital from longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad, who was reported to have fled the country. Syria has been mired in a multi-party civil war since 2011, amid the Arab Spring uprisings. (Photo by Ali Haj Suleiman/Getty Images)

Euphoria over regime change in Syria but it is fraught with danger

The Assad dynasty has fallen, but will it end Israel’s genocide in Gaza?

Women walk past an anti-Israeli mural depicting fighters with assault rifles along a wall in Palestine Square in Tehran on April 14, 2024. Iran on April 14 urged Israel not to retaliate militarily to an unprecedented attack overnight, which Tehran presented as a justified response to a deadly strike on its consulate building in Damascus. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP)

World urges restraint after unprecedented Iran attack on Israel

Iran’s mission to the United Nations warned Washington to keep out of its conflict with Israel, and said that ‘the matter can be deemed concluded’

God shines through: A woman tries to set up her tent (above) damaged by a windstorm that hit 60 refugee camps and 11 temporary shelters for earthquake survivors in Idlib, Syria. (Muhammed Said/Getty Images)

 Ukraine, Mozambique, Syria: ‘Bombs don’t hit non-believers only’

God is in every dark corner, say those who have suffered in Ukraine, Mozambique and the Middle East

Help us: Khadija, who is being held in a camp in north-eastern Syria, wants the South African government to ensure she and other citizens return to the country.

Bring us home, pleads South African woman held in Syria

A woman who went to Syria to rescue her brother’s children is being held in horrific conditions

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Gift of the Givers celebrates as 80-year-old woman is rescued from quake rubble

Death tolls passes 37 000 as humanitarian organisation and SAPS dog unit continue search for more survivors in Türkiye and Syria

Local people and rescue volunteers take part in a search operation on February 7, 2023 in Elbistan Turkey. (Photo by Mehmet Kacmaz/Getty Images)

Death toll rises above 11 200 in Turkey, Syria quake

Officials and medics said 8 574 people had died in Turkey and 2 662 in Syria from Monday’s 7.8-magnitude tremor, bringing the total to 11 236

06 February 2023, Syria, Harem: Rescue workers and civilians conduct search and rescue operations in the rubble of a collapsed building following a magnitude 7.8 earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria. Photo: Anas Alkharboutli/dpa (Anas Alkharboutli/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Earthquake kills more than 4 300 in Turkey, Syria

Over 5 600 buildings were destroyed in several cities, including many apartment blocks where residents were sleeping when the quake struck

At Kiev’s Independence Square

Democracy is worth defending in the face of multiple attacks from Russia and Iran to North Korea and the US

Authoritarian would-be emperors such as Putin and Jinping and the US’s military-industrial complex erode the open society and its values of individual freedoms

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

In the time of wars and refugees, let us now talk peace

When Russia illegally invaded Ukraine, was not that the moment for the United Nations to send its secretary general to Moscow to demand a ceasefire?

Peril: People from Africa, Middle East and India use the Ukraine-Poland Medyka pedestrian border crossing. (Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto/AFP)

Ukraine refugees: West is empathic – if you are blonde

Europe has changed its attitude towards Ukraine refugees