World Mar 04 In the wake of Trump administration aid cuts, UN food program closes its southern Africa office A WFP spokesperson says Monday the WFP had launched a plan to streamline its structure in 2023 but as “the donor funding outlook becomes more constrained, we have been compelled to accelerate these efforts.”…
World Feb 20 UK foreign secretary questions Russia’s ‘appetite’ for peace at tense G20 meeting U.K. Foreign Secretary David Lammy said he saw no appetite for peace from Russia in Ukraine after listening to a speech by Russia's top diplomat at a tense Group of 20 meeting in South Africa on Thursday. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who led…
World Feb 06 After Trump’s funding threat, South African president phones influential billionaire Musk South African President Cyril Ramaphosa spoke with Elon Musk a day after U.S. President Donald Trump promised to cut the country's funding over a land expropriation law.
World Jan 24 UNICEF says nearly 250 million children missed school last year because of extreme weather UNICEF says it amounted to one in seven school-going children across the world being kept out of class at some point in 2024 because of climate crises.
World Jan 16 Standoff in South Africa ends with 87 miners dead and anger over police tactics Authorities now believe that nearly 2,000 miners were working illegally in the mine near the town of Stilfontein, southwest of Johannesburg, since August last year.
World Dec 16 France rushes aid to Mayotte, with hundreds feared dead and hunger rising after Cyclone Chido France used ships and military aircraft to rush rescue workers and supplies to its Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte on Monday after the island group was battered by its worst cyclone in nearly a century.
World Dec 15 Cyclone Chido causes hundreds of deaths on Mayotte islands in Indian Ocean, officials say The death toll in the French territory of Mayotte from Cyclone Chido is “several hundred” and may be close to 1,000, the island’s top government official told the local broadcaster Sunday.
World Dec 04 WATCH: ‘Let’s keep it up,’ Biden calls for continued U.S. investment in Africa at Angola summit President Joe Biden has pledged another $600 million for an ambitious multi-country rail project in Africa as one of the final foreign policy moves of his administration.
Politics Oct 15 Southern Africa facing its worst hunger crisis in decades due to El Niño, the UN says The World Food Program said Tuesday it could become a "full-scale human catastrophe." Five countries — Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe — have declared national disasters over the drought and resultant hunger.
World Sep 05 Uganda Olympic runner’s horrific killing is the latest in violence against female athletes in Kenya Cheptegei, who was 33, was from Uganda and competed in the marathon at the Paris Olympics less than a month ago.