Africa accounts for nearly 80 per cent of cases of the inherited red blood cell disorder but has relied on expensive imported medication.

Funerals have taken place for 8 of the 15 migrants who drowned after the boat they were in sank in the Meditteranean.

Finance and water emerge as defining issues at COP17. PHOTO/UNCCD. By PATRICK MAYOYO ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia Negotiators, ministers, scientists and civil society leaders have entered a decisive phase of global talks aimed at tackling desertification, land degradation and drought, as the 17th Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)  moves into its final week in the Mongolian capital. With only days remaining before the conference closes on 28 August, delegates from the UNCCD’s 197 Parties are intensifying negotiations on some of the most politically sensitive and technically complex issues confronting the international community, including land restoration financing, drought resilience, water security, migration, private sector engagement and scientific cooperation. The summit, being held under the theme “Restoring Land. Restoring Hope.”, is widely viewed as a critical test of the world’s commitment to re...

INFOGRAPHIC/EYEWITNESS MEDIA. By PATRICK MAYOYO The tragic events in Homa Bay, which left two people dead, including a police officer, and injured 54 others, have once again exposed the persistent challenge of goonism, criminal gangs and political violence in Kenya. Beyond the immediate loss of life and destruction, the incident raises uncomfortable but necessary questions about the effectiveness of the country’s security leadership and the implementation of presidential directives aimed at restoring law and order. If the Inspector-General of Police, Douglas Kanja, and the Director of Criminal Investigations, Mohamed Amin, had acted decisively and consistently on President William Ruto’s directive to crack down on goonism, criminal gangs and lawlessness, could this tragedy have been prevented? While no security agency can guarantee the complete elimination of violence, Kenyans are entitled to ask whether enough was done to avert a situation that many viewed as predictable. On 21 Ju...

In tonight's programme, a three-day testimony of an alleged underworld kingpin exposed how deep the link between alleged criminals and high profile police officers is in South Africa. Also, in Tunisia grieving families lay their lost youth, all victims of a boat that went down in the Mediterranean Sea over the weekend. And finally in an era of mass production and electric machines, a young Kenyan fashion designer is taking a slower approach.

In tonight's programme: Muslims celebrate Mawlid across Africa but festivities are cancelled in Tigray because of recent drone attacks. But first: the United States calls for beefed-up UN sanctions against the warring parties in Sudan. Finally, in the Kenyan village of Cheporor, a recent discovery of gold sends thousands of amateur prospectors rushing to the area.

The Johannesburg Stock Exchange is using Trianz Concierto to support cloud migration and modernisation as the company expands in South Africa.

The Southern African Fraud Prevention Service saved its Members more than R7.44 billion in potential fraud losses in 2025, as rising vishing, identity theft, document forgery and money mule networks highlight the growing threat of organised financial fraud across Southern Africa.

By Prof. MarkAnthony Nze The Book That Was Standardized How the Recitation Was Collected, and What Was Burned to Make It One Sahih al-Bukhari is the most trusted book in Sunni Islam after the Qur’an itself, and at hadith 4987 it tells the following story. During campaigns in Armenia and Azerbaijan, a companion named Hudhayfa […]

By Prof. MarkAnthony Nze The Older Kaaba What Was Already Standing in Mecca When the Revelation Came Sometime around the year 819, a Muslim scholar of Kufa named Hisham ibn al-Kalbi finished a short book cataloguing the gods of Arabia before Islam. He listed them by name, tribe, and shrine: Wadd and Suwa, Yaghuth and […]