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Well-organised ecosystems: Typical red flags include pressure to act urgently, official-looking emails with errors in the address, website links with misspellings, requests for PINs for unexpected payments and crypto schemes promising fast profits.

Beating rampant cybercrime in Africa

Most cyberattacks succeed because they exploit human behaviour rather than technical weaknesses. Consumers are the frontline of defence against cybercrime

Life president: NRM Presidential Candidate Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, together with the First Lady Maama
Janet Museveni, arrive at Buziga Islamic School grounds, Makindye Division, to kick off election campaigns.
Photo: National Resistance Movement

Africa 2026: polls sans choice, jobs

In addition, some of the continent’s wars show little sign of resolution

As part of Minister Nzimande’s extensive official visit to the Republic of Tunisia, earlier, the Department of Science, Technology and Innovation (DSTI) signed a partnership to scale up science, technology and innovation cooperation with Tunisia.

Tunisia: A democratic dream destroyed

Fourteen years ago, Tunisia was the very emblem of hope

The Samud Flotilla consists of boats from 47 countries and is a symbol of steadfastness against Israel’s occupation and the genocide in Gaza. Photo: Tan Safi/Freedom Flotilla Coalition

Gaza: Steadfastness on the open sea

Countries around the world are increasingly turning against Israel and its aggression in the Middle East. South Africa’s unions and citizens must join in solidarity with…

Flow: Water experts in South Africa and Tunisia, diplomats, ambassadors, academics and civil society representatives attended the seminar on science diplomacy and knowledge sharing for water management.

Tunisia and South Africa hold seminar on water management

Responsible AI requires development that is centred on environmental and human protection

More than 2,000 people – 55 from South Africa – have converged in Egypt in a show of international solidarity.

Global March to Gaza is a moral reckoning

More than 2,000 people – 55 from South Africa – have converged in Egypt in a show of international solidarity

(The Times/Esa Alexander)

Dismantle green colonialism and stop the greed of corporates and Northern governments

The fight for climate justice must include the people who are most affected, including those in the Arab region

African refugees and migrants fleeing war and dictatorships in search of safety on European shores.  (AFP)

Home may be the least bad option for African migrants

To keep migrants away, Fortress Europe has extended its walls into African countries such as Morocco and Mauritania

Relentless: The anonymous cartoonist in his office in Tunis. He has lampooned Tunisia’s autocratic leaders. (Fethi Belaid/AFP)

Tunisia’s shadow cartoonist Z fights fascism

The cartoonist, known only as Z, has now taken on President Kais Saied, who rules by decree

Hundreds of Tunisians gather to celebrate their Independence Day by shouting slogans with banners and Tunisian flags in their hands on Habib Bourguiba Street in Tunis, Tunisia on March 20, 2023. (Photo by Yassine Gaidi/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Tunisia, an anti-democratic revolution in the making

President Kais Saied is using African migrants and European Union migration policies to undo recently acquired democratic rights

Tunisian President Kais Saied.

Editorial: Calling out xenophobic bullies in all of Africa including Tunisian President Kais Saïed

Real leaders don’t pick on the weak. They include them in problem-solving and strengthening their nations and the continent

The World Bank is pausing talks over its future engagement with Tunisia following anti-immigrant comments made by the country’s president, Kais Saied. (Photo by Chedly Ben Ibrahim/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

World Bank halts Tunisia partnership programme over president’s ‘hate speech’

Hundreds of terrified African migrants flee to embassies and camps as human rights groups warns of increasing vigilante attacks

Rwanda’s Salima Mukansanga has broken new ground to become the first African woman to officiate a men’s World Cup. (Photo by Markus Gilliar – GES Sportfoto/Getty Images)

Salima Mukansanga becomes first African woman referee at men’s World Cup

Rwanda’s Salima Mukansanga has broken new ground to become the first African woman to officiate a men’s World Cup

Why Africa is standing still at the World Cup

With Mané and Salah absent, the semifinals seem as remote as ever, thanks to a glaring imbalance in development systems

France are missing key midfielders but Kylian Mbappe will always be the ace in the whole. (Photo by Matthias Hangst/Getty Images)

2022 World Cup: What’s the deal in group D?

France are missing key midfielders, which makes Denmark strong candidates for the top spot in this group

People entering the abandoned Presidential Secretariat at Galle Face in Colombo, Sri Lanka on July 10, 2022.(Photo by M.A.Pushpa Kumara/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

‘Tunisia Days’ ahead as inflation exerts political pressure

With high prices continuing to bear down on consumers the world over, leaders who fail to bring inflation to heel could face a reckoning

Tunisia struggles to grow more wheat as Ukraine war bites

Since the Ukraine war sent global cereal prices soaring, import-dependent Tunisia has announced a push to grow all its own durum wheat, the basis for local staples like couscous…

Power grab protest: Police fire water cannons during demonstrations against President Kais Saied, on the 11th anniversary of the Tunisian revolution on January 14 this year.  (Fethi Belaid/AFP/Getty Images)

Tunisia’s president is ‘installing a dictatorship’

Critics fear President Kais Saied is growing increasingly authoritarian following his decision to dissolve the country’s judicial watchdog

Members of the Zimbabwe Presidential Guard march in formation during the Defence Forces Day celebrations held at the National Sports Stadium in Harare on August 14 2018. (Photo by Jekesai Njikizana/AFP)

From Algeria to Zimbabwe: How autocratic elites cycle in and out of power

Leaders typically spread power among their ‘rival allies’ to keep it and co-opt enough of those elites in exchange for political support.

Theoneste Bagosora, a former Rwandan army colonel, widely regarded as the architect of the 1994 genocide, died in a hospital in Mali last weekend.(Photo credit should read TONY KARUMBA/AFP via Getty Images)

Africa in brief: 25 September – 2 October

In the round-up: The ‘architect’ of the Rwandan 1994 genocide dies; the Nigerian government kills its citizens and the Twitter ban is lifted