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MOGADISHU— Arbay Mahad Qasim has already lost two children to a vicious drought, and now the Somali villager fears she could lose a third as her malnourished toddler Ifrah awaits treatment in a Mogadishu hospital.Barely out of her teens, Qasim is among...

EPWP has created over 400 000 EPWP work opportunities for young people during 2021/22 financial yearAs South Africa commemorates Youth Month, the Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) is contributing to the socio-economic upliftment of poor communitie...

GENEVA— The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said it had suspended some food aid in South Sudan due to a funding shortage – heightening the risk of starvation for 1.7 million people.The move to suspend aid to almost a third of the 6.2 million ...

Rights groups in Malawi have urged authorities to quickly find and deport a Chinese man who was found to be making and selling exploitative videos of children. A BBC investigation found the man, Lu Ke, paid children to sing and speak Mandarin in distu...

ADDIS ABABA— Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said the federal government had formed a committee to negotiate with forces from the rebellious northern region of Tigray, in the first public confirmation of a key step towards peace negotations.The ne...

CAIRO– The Suez Canal Economic Zone (SCZone) in Egypt, and the Colon Free Zone (CFZ) in Panama, have signed here, an agreement to promote cooperation, the SCZone said, in a statement yesterday.“The agreement aims at exchanging information, to lure inve...

LONDON— A first flight carrying asylum seekers to Rwanda as part of a controversial UK policy was cancelled on Tuesday in an embarrassing blow to Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government.The number of those due to be put on the flight had dwindled fro...

The Republic of South Africa to host the United Nations 6th International Partnership for Technology in Peacekeeping SymposiumThe Republic of South Africa (RSA), as a Member State to the United Nations (UN) and a Troop and Police contributing country, ...