The year 2024 has been one of the most devastating for journalists covering conflicts worldwide- with 361 behind bars, the second highest since the global record of 370 imprisoned back in 2023.

Analysis - South Africa's political and economic landscape shifted significantly after the 2024 national elections. The ruling ANC's dramatic loss of support resulted in a government of national unity ...

Analysis - K. Sello Duiker was regarded as a "rock star" of South African literature. He was one of a group of budding black South African novelists of the late 1990s and early 2000s who emerged with ...

Analysis - Air pollution has an alarming effect on global health. In 2019, it was responsible for 4.2 million global deaths. Inhaling air pollution harms health in many different ways beyond simply ...

These films were all at the centre of impact campaigns designed to move people to act. In filmmaking, "impact" may involve bringing people together around important issues. It could also lead to ...

A report published yesterday by the Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) at the Yale School of Public Health identifies advanced unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) at Nyala Airport, in the capital of South ...

The conflict in Sudan is taking an "even more dangerous turn for civilians", UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said on Friday.

Nigeria has been admitted as a partner country to the Brics bloc of developing economies, adding one of Africa's largest economies to the growing alliance of emerging market countries. Brazil, the ...

Thousands of people gathered in northern Liberia on Saturday for the funeral of warlord-turned-politician Prince Johnson - a notorious face of the country's brutal civil wars, and who died without ...

Refugees in Dadaab talk of buufis - a term in Somali to describe the extreme anxiety the long wait can cause, and the impact on people's mental health. They also describe how undocumented young men in ...

Blog - Access to family planning services has become a struggle for many couples in Edo State. For the Isibors, the consequences of this shortage were devastating. After having three children, the ...

Kenya has deployed 217 more police officers to Haiti to provide backup to an understaffed security mission in the Caribbean country where spiralling gang violence has displaced more than a million ...