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US President Donald Trump speaks as he attends a "Summer Soiree" held on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, US, 4 June 2025. Reuters/Leah Millis

Immigration & Citizenship Law

Trump reinstates US travel ban, bars citizens of 12 countries

Jeff Mason and Nandita Bose 5 Jun 2025

Source: ChatGPT.

Healthcare

US exits UN-HRC

5 Feb 2025

Source: Microsoft Designer

Mining

‘Gold rush’ driven by geopolitics and consumer anxiety

Lindsey Schutters 12 Dec 2024

Source: @PresidencyZA/X

Finance

From Struggle to State Capture: Remembering Pravin Gordhan

Katja Hamilton 19 Sep 2024

Dalinda: Win 2 double tickets for world premiere of Donizetti’s rediscovered operatic masterpiece

Theatre

Dalinda: Win 2 double tickets for world premiere of Donizetti’s rediscovered operatic masterpiece

26 Aug 2024

Source: © 123rf The 10 most banned apps in the world, with Facebook the number one most banned app globally

Digital

Top 10 most banned apps globally - Facebook at no1

26 Aug 2024

Bookings open for OperaUCT’s world premiere of Dalinda

Music

Bookings open for OperaUCT’s world premiere of Dalinda

Terry Levin 31 Jul 2024

Accounting & Auditing

South Africa's battle against greylisting: a year on

Hawken McEwan 4 Mar 2024

Sudan and Democratic Republic of Congo are among poorly-funded humanitarian crises for which the United Nations on Tuesday said it was allocating $100m - one of the lowest amounts released from its Central Emergency Response Fund in recent years. Image source: Reuters

Health & Social Welfare

UN earmarks $100m for poorly funded humanitarian crises

Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber 21 Feb 2024

File photo: Afghan nationals rest at a camp after returning from Pakistan at the Torkham border crossing between Pakistan and Afghanistan, 14 November 2023. Abdul Khaliq Sediqi/International Rescue Committee (IRC)/ Handout via Reuters/ File photo

Health & Social Welfare

Humanitarian crises will worsen in 2024 - International Rescue Committee

Reuters 18 Dec 2023

Source: Reuters.

Economy

Oil rises more than $1 on fears of spread of Middle East conflict

27 Oct 2023

Economy

Israel-Gaza conflict: Oil prices surge amidst regional unrest

Izak Odendaal 16 Oct 2023

Hamas attack on Israel: What does this mean for South Africa?

Higher Education

Hamas attack on Israel: What does this mean for South Africa?

Bertie Jacobs, Issued by North-West University (NWU) 12 Oct 2023

South African ISPs must do better. Source: 2H Media/Unsplash

Internet

South Africa's ISPs must do better

Richard Firth 18 Aug 2023

AI is a reflection of human bias. Source: Supplied.

Digital

Humans are the dark side of AI

Richard Frank 8 Aug 2023

Buildings left standing in Turkey offer design guidance for future earthquake-resilient construction

Construction & Engineering

Buildings left standing in Turkey offer design guidance for future earthquake-resilient construction

Osman Ozbulut 5 Apr 2023

Strong building regulations are critical in preventing infrastructure disasters

Infrastructure & Utilities

Strong building regulations are critical in preventing infrastructure disasters

16 Mar 2023

Source © City A.M. WPP has released its full year and Q4 financial results showing a positive outlook for the industry

Marketing & Media

WPP 2022 results show positive outlook for the industry

24 Feb 2023

Inclusion, Empowerment & Social Justice

Ubuntu Awards honour trailblazers

13 Feb 2023

Media

Journalist killings up by 50% in 2022

Karabo Ledwaba 18 Jan 2023

Source: Reuters.

Healthcare

WHO to switch to one dose of two-dose cholera vaccine amid rising outbreaks

20 Oct 2022

Source: Reuters. An artist paints a mural as part of the "cholera" campaign to depict the suffering of cholera patients in Sanaa, Yemen; April 25, 2019.

Healthcare

Cholera outbreaks surging worldwide, fatality rates rising - WHO

Jennifer Rigby 3 Oct 2022

Source: Supplied. From left is Regina Reyes, Faith Zaba and Diana Mokalled.

Publishing

Wan-Ifra Women in News Editorial Leadership Award announces 2022 laureates

29 Sep 2022

Economy

National Treasury moves to avoid greylisting, but knows it's an uphill battle

Ray Mahlaka 30 Aug 2022

Image: Demonstrators protest outside of an airport perimeter fence against a planned deportation of asylum seekers from Britain to Rwanda, at Gatwick Airport near Crawley, Britain, 12 June 2022. Reuters/Toby Melville

Human Rights Law

UK courts to hear last-minute appeals to stop first Rwanda deportation flight leaving

Andrew MacAskill 13 Jun 2022

Image source: Kei Scampa from

Competition Law

Rapid development of competition law across Africa

Lerisha Naidu, Angelo Tzarevski, Sphesihle Nxumalo and Zareenah Rasool 11 May 2022

Ukraine: The good, bad and ideal refugees

Inclusion, Empowerment & Social Justice

Ukraine: The good, bad and ideal refugees

Yvonne Su 9 Mar 2022

#OrchidsandOnions

#OrchidsandOnions: Ukraine weaponises web

Brendan Seery 8 Mar 2022

Airbnb offers free, short-term housing to fleeing Ukraine refugees

Hospitality

Airbnb offers free, short-term housing to fleeing Ukraine refugees

28 Feb 2022

MTN exits Yemen in Middle East pull-out

Technology

MTN exits Yemen in Middle East pull-out

19 Nov 2021

Social Media

Digital protests: From slacktivism to activism

Ashleigh Burton 23 Sep 2021

MTN, Sanlam partner to sell insurance in Africa

Telecoms & Networks

MTN, Sanlam partner to sell insurance in Africa

13 Aug 2021

Encounters Programmer's Choice Awards: All the winners

Film

Encounters Programmer's Choice Awards: All the winners

2 Jul 2021

Image: FAO/G.Tortoli

Food Security

FAO, partners' high-tech response to help win fight against desert locust swarms

11 May 2021

Nearly 20 million more people hit by food crises last year

Food, Water & Energy Security

Nearly 20 million more people hit by food crises last year

Maytaal Angel 6 May 2021

Encounters announces first lineup for this year's virtual doccie fest

Film

Encounters announces first lineup for this year's virtual doccie fest

15 Jul 2020

National Geographic celebrates Women of Impact this March

TV

National Geographic celebrates Women of Impact this March

Issued by The Walt Disney Company Africa 19 Feb 2020

Global food prices up 2.7% in November

Agriculture

Global food prices up 2.7% in November

6 Dec 2019

Eritrean President Isaias Afewerki and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed during a ceremony marking the reopening of the Eritrean Embassy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on July 16, 2018. A recent thawing of relations between the two countries did not lead to improved conditions for the media in Eritrea. Credit: CPJ/Reuters/Tiksa Negeri.

Media Freedom

10 most censored countries

13 Sep 2019

MICE

Africa Trade Week shows strong growth as international trader numbers rise

21 Aug 2019

Photo: World Economic Forum

Infectious Diseases

20-million children miss out on lifesaving measles, diphtheria and tetanus vaccines in 2018

16 Jul 2019

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Agriculture

Ongoing conflicts take toll on food insecurity in Africa

8 Jul 2019

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Travel

New X booking code for non-binary gender travellers

31 May 2019

Editor from South Sudan is 2019 Africa Laureate

Media

Editor from South Sudan is 2019 Africa Laureate

9 May 2019

How South Africa ranks in the press freedom stakes

Media Freedom

How South Africa ranks in the press freedom stakes

Glenda Daniels 3 May 2019

Image via : A woman is reflected next to a poster outside a community hall hosting a night vigil for kidnapped photojournalist Shiraaz Mohamed, on January 18, 2017 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Community members, friends, family and colleagues of photojournalist Shiraaz Mohamed held a night vigil at the Lenasia South Civic Centre. Mohamed was abducted in Syria on 10 January while working with the aid mission Gift of the Givers. (Photo by Gallo Images / Dino Lloyd)

Media Freedom

South African journalist Shiraaz Mohamed, kidnapped in January 2017, is shown alive in new video

Jonah Dylan 2 May 2019

Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 70: the challenges that await the UN

Inclusion, Empowerment & Social Justice

Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 70: the challenges that await the UN

Olivier de Frouville 16 Apr 2019

Beautiful News: Why South Africa's greatest strength is in the rights of its people

ESG

Beautiful News: Why South Africa's greatest strength is in the rights of its people

Michael Hathorn, Issued by Ginkgo Agency 20 Mar 2019