South Africa’s towering playwright Athol Fugard, who challenged apartheid, returns to the pavilion
Fugard told an interviewer that the best theatre in Africa would come from South Africa because the “daily tally of injustice and brutality has forced a maturity of thinking and feeling and an awareness of basic values I do not find equalled anywhere in Africa.”
Africa faces ‘deadlier’ test as malaria season sets in against backdrop of Trump’s US aid cuts weaken the fight against it
Uganda in 2023 had 12.6 million malaria cases and nearly 16,000 deaths, many of them children under 5 and pregnant women, according to WHO. Opigo said the US has been giving between $30 million and $35 million annually for malaria control. He didn’t say which contracts have been terminated but noted that field research was also affected.
South Africa says Zelenskiy will visit in April as part of its ongoing talks with Ukraine and Russia
Ramaphosa is due to meet with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President António Costa next week in Cape Town at an annual European Union-South Africa summit.
UN: Whereabouts of 181 migrants unknown, at least two dead after boats capsize off Yemen and Djibouti
Over the past decade, at least 2,082 people have disappeared along the route, including 693 known to have drowned, according to the IOM. About 380,000 migrants are currently in Yemen.
Experts champion investments in agroecology instead of traditional industrial agriculture
Last year in October, Balay noted that AFSA and other CSOs launched EU-AU Civil Society Engagement Mechanism as a platform to engage the EU-AU partnership engagement and whose one of the focus is finance that comes to Africa.
United States military commands sustains airstrikes on Al Shabaab in Somalia as UN extends sanctions
Following its first airstrike in Somalia under second term US President Donald Trump – made public by The Pentagon on February 1 – Africom reports four more similar sorties to date. Two, specify the number – three – of actual strikes with the others reported as “collective self-defence air strikes”.
Trump finds ‘less soot’ in stripping tiny African kingdom Lesotho of $8m in humanitarian aid
Musk in September was meeting with Lesotho’s Prime Minister Sam Matekane, while trying to do business with the southern African nation.
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela play explores Black women’s long wait for absent husbands during South African freedom struggle
Madikizela-Mandela, who died in 2018 aged 81, was accused of kidnapping and murdering people she allegedly suspected of being police informants under apartheid. She also faced allegations of being unfaithful to Mandela during his 27 years in prison.
Kenya, Egypt, Cameroon and South Sudan implicated again in smuggling of Sudan’s gum Arabic used in manufacture of Coca-Cola
In the year after Sudan’s civil war began, the country’s gum arabic exports to the EU fell, even as exports from countries like Egypt, Kenya, Cameroon and South Sudan rose.
Serious funding questions raised as new Somali peace support takes over from previous under-resourced military mission
Past missions – the AU Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) and ATMIS – depended heavily on donor funding. The EU paid for troops’ stipends, while the UN provided logistical support packages to the missions and Somalia Security Forces through the UN Support Office in Somalia (UNSOS).
