Thirty deaths occurred in the Western Cape, eight in KwaZulu-Natal, five in the Free State, three in Mpumalanga and one in Gauteng
Participating youth are optimistic that the media has a role to play in breaking the silence on taboos like rape and other forms of sexual abuse. Sensitive issues such as early and forced marriages are also included
Ethiopian refugees are evacuating border camps in Sudan as aid resources are diverted to Um Rakouba, the country’s main camp where many still lack food and shelter
A new report by World Bank and UNHCR revealed that there is a jump in poverty among refugees during pandemic, adding that cash programmes that help offset impact must be scaled up in 2021
The Antidote, a documentary by filmmakers Kahane Cooperman and John Hoffman, offers stories about acts of kindness in communities across America
News of the granting of bail to the main defendant Ali Azhar and to the co-defendants saddens and wounds the religious minorities of Pakistan
Zimbabwean artiste Nomathamsanqa ‘Nkwali’ Mkhwananzi has launched a new album titled uThemba
In Tanzania, female circumcision – also known as female genital mutilation – is still practiced among some ethnic groups as a rite of passage into womanhood. Many girls are forced or coerced into it
A young Uyghur man who went missing after learning he was going to be sent to an internment camp in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) has been found to have died by suicide, according to officials and a Canada-based activist
Siberia’s Evenk region is larger than any European country but it is home to only around 17,000 people. It’s so vast and remote that scientists have spent decades searching and failing to find one of the largest meteorites ever to fall to Earth — the Tunguska meteorite