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South African unemployment rate, already the highest in the world, rose to 32.1% in the fourth quarter of 2023, according to official government figures released. The Quarterly Labour Force Survey reported that the number of unemployed…

Amidst growing pressure from climate change, Senegal's nomadic pastoralists are finding ways to adapt. Although pastoralism has sustained populations around the world for millennia, climate change is contributing to a deterioration of…

Tunisia's powerful UGTT trade union has accused President Kais Saied of targeting it as a distraction from record low election turnout and what's been called a "total failure" of his economic policies. On 3rd February UGTT chief…

Liberian President George Weah has come under pressure a year ahead of the presidential election for his inadequate response to the indictment of three senior officials for alleged corruption and embezzlement by the country's major US ally.…

UN Security Council delegates, led by the ambassadors from the US, France and Niger, arrived in Bamako for two days of talks to push the military-led interim government for a return to democracy after two coups in nine months. The…

In Blantyre, south Malawi, the Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital has turned at least five wards for treating other illnesses into Covid-19 wards. Covid-19 cases in Malawi are on the rise, Local hospitals are now on the edge as the country…