Police said the Western Cape’s extortion hotline is receiving fewer reports than expected.
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Nearly 50 years after Spain gave up its Saharan colony, tens of thousands of Sahrawis are still living in refugee camps in the Algerian desert, waiting on a vote that was promised and never held. Western Sahara sits on the Atlantic coast of northwest Africa, and it remains one of the longest-running unresolved territorial disputes…
Kenya, 18 July 2026 – National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetang’ula has launched what is emerging as one of the earliest and most organised political mobilisation strategies ahead of the 2027 General Election, urging religious centres across Western Kenya to transform from centres of worship into engines of voter registration.
The Rubber Processors Association of Ghana (RUPAG) has defended government’s temporary ban on raw rubber exports, insisting the policy is protecting Ghana’s industrialisation agenda rather than creating monopolies or depriving farmers and traders of market opportunities.
Against a frenzy of drums, chanting and gunfire, a few hundred Serer men parade about in a trance-like state, brandishing the day’s hunt — jackals, monitor lizards, monkeys and birds — in hopes of hastening Senegal’s rainy season.
A new provincial housing market study has found a severe shortage of affordable homes across the Western Cape.
As fatal shootings continue unabated in the Western Cape, police said that the SANDF’s deployment to gang hotspots has led to more than a thousand arrests in three months.
Temperatures across ravaged region 3C above average as scientists warn of risks for people, ecosystems and infrastructure
When Ghana declared independence in 1957 it kicked off a wave of decolonisation across the continent, and by 1975 every country in West Africa had wrested sovereignty from its former colonial rulers. The new leaders sought to reimagine what their fledgling nations might look like, not just socially and politically but also in terms of…