Israel lifted protections for Congolese asylum seekers without consulting Foreign Ministry

Read More Israel’s Interior Ministry failed to consult with the Foreign Ministry before lifting the collective protected status of Congolese citizens last month, a decision that has since been suspended. The Foreign Ministry’s international law representative, Noam Cappon, told a Knesset committee on Monday that the Interior Ministry had asked his office to lift collective […]

Mpumalanga boys ‘kidnapped for forced initiation’

Read More NGUNJANA VILLAGE, SOUTH AFRICA JUNE 20: (SOUTH AFRICA OUT) Initiates are smeared with white clay on their face and are covered in red and white blankets on June 20, 2014 in Ngunjana Village, South Africa. The winter circumcision season is under way in the Eastern Cape and elsewhere in the country. Traditional […]

OPINION | Global warming is here, it is no longer a thing of the future

Read More In her career spanning more than 30 years as an environmental activist, physicist, sustainability philosopher and climate scientist, Vandana Shiva teaches us that what we do to our environment always comes back to us. Similarly, on the African continent, Nobel Peace prize winner Wangari Maathai taught us the importance of environmental sustainability through […]

Winter is here: Inflation, debt cools the economy

Read More Ailing power utility Eskom has warned it will have to ramp up load-shedding during the winter months.(Photo: David Harrison/M&G) There is a snap in the air, as South Africa faces strong economic headwinds. Russia’s war in Ukraine has sent prices to extreme highs, causing the South African Reserve Bank to raise the […]

OPINION| Sub-Saharan Africa must oppose the death penalty

Read More In March 2022, a high court in South Sudan ordered the release of Magai Matiop Ngong, a young man who had been sentenced to death by hanging in November 2017. Magai was a 15-year-old high school schoolboy when a death sentence was imposed on him for a murder which he claims was an […]

Shell pauses London AGM as protesters chant ‘We will stop you’

Read More Shell has paused its annual general meeting in London after it was interrupted by environmental protesters chanting: “We will stop you.” Climate protesters told the oil and gas company’s board: “We will expose you. We know who you are. We know what you have done. We will remember.” They repeatedly chanted “Shell must […]

Turkey’s top diplomat heads to Israel and the West Bank, in first visit in years

Read More Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu is expected in Israel and the West Bank for a two-day visit starting Tuesday, the first such visit by a senior Turkish official in more than a decade. Cavusoglu will meet with the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki in Ramallah on Tuesday. On Wednesday, […]