The UN estimates that 339 million people worldwide will need some form of emergency assistance next year. The United Nations and its partners have launched an appeal for a record $51.5bn in aid money for 2023, with tens of millions of additional people expected to need humanitarian assistance. The UN Global Humanitarian Overview estimates that…
On this World AIDS Day, it’s time to use the successes in the fight against that scourge to fight other conditions, too. Mukesh Kapila Emeritus Professor at the University of Manchester Arriving at Uganda’s Entebbe airport, I was struck by the miles of carpentry shops on the road to Kampala, building wooden coffins. It was…
Around the world, every week about 4,900 young women aged between 15 and 24 become infected with HIV. By AJLabs Each year, on December 1, the world commemorates World AIDS Day. Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) is a chronic and potentially life-threatening condition caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). HIV attacks the immune system, weakening…
President ‘may be guilty of a serious violation of certain sections of the constitution,’ a report into alleged cover-up of theft at his farm has found. An independent panel appointed by the speaker of South Africa’s parliament has found preliminary evidence that President Cyril Ramaphosa violated his oath of office, findings that could lead to…
Four of the defendants arrested in connection with a 2016 Islamic extremist attack that killed 19 people on a tourist beach in Ivory Coast appeared in court Wednesday to face murder and terrorism charges. Authorities last week had released the names of 18 defendants accused in the Grand-Bassam killings, which were later claimed by Al-Qaida…
Peace and security in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region will come under the spotlight in Windhoek, Namibia, on Wednesday. The region is trying to deal with a number of conflicts. Its organ on Politics, Defence and Security Cooperation will meet in the Namibian capital. SADC leaders will also discuss the political situation and…
Sarel Meintjes | @SABCNews Three children died in a fire in Khayelitsha on the Cape Flats in the early hours of Wednesday morning. The City’s fire and rescue spokesperson Jermaine Carelse says emergency crews from four nearby fire stations responded to the scene when a structure in the Endlovini informal settlement was gutted. Crews from Lansdowne, Mfuleni,…
By AFP Abidjan Eighteen people accused of involvement in one of West Africa’s bloodiest attacks by extremists — a machine-gun assault on a beach resort in 2016 that left 19 dead — go on trial in Côte d’Ivoire on Wednesday. But only four of the 18 will be physically present for the long-awaited proceedings in…
Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has said she worries society is suffering from an “epidemic of self-censorship”. In a BBC lecture on freedom of speech, the writer said young people were growing up “afraid to ask questions for fear of asking the wrong questions”. Such a climate could lead to “the death of curiosity, the death…
By Yusuf Akinpelu BBC News, Lagos The drowning of the three-year-old son of Afrobeats star Davido in the swimming pool at his home in Lagos last month has thrown a spotlight on the safety of swimmers in Nigeria. The death of Ifeanyi Adeleke came four years after the one-year-old son of another Nigerian singer, D’Banj,…