Retroviral Announces Ko.Kreate
Retroviral has announced that its Creative Director, Koketso Masisi, and Associate Creative Director, Kgothatso Maditse, are spearheading Ko.Kreate, a community dedicated to empowering women...
How AI Can Help Both Tax Collectors and Taxpayers
Artificial Intelligence, Development & Aid, Featured, Global, Headlines, IPS UN: Inside the Glasshouse, Sustainable Development Goals, TerraViva United Nations Opinion
Credit: Cynthia R Matonhodze/IMF PhotoWASHINGTON...
Victory for Kenyans Denied Citizenship
The High Court in Garissa, Kenya ruled on January 21 in favor of thousands of ethnic Somali Kenyan nationals whose rights were violated by the refusal...
Unknown Deadly Illness Strikes Western Congo
An unidentified illness has killed scores of people and infected hundreds in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the World Health Organization has reported, with...
China eyes opportunities as US scales back humanitarian aid
For Li Qiang, the Trump administration’s sudden freeze on foreign aid could not have produced a more striking win – for China.By cutting off...
A mystery illness in Congo has killed more than 50 people...
KINSHASA, Congo -- An unknown illness first discovered in three children who ate a bat has rapidly killed more than 50 people in northwestern...
Bold new initiative to put an additional 1.1 million people living...
JOHANNESBURG/GENEVA, 25 February 2025—UNAIDS welcomes South Africa’s plan to put an additional 1.1 million people living with HIV on life-saving treatment by the end...
Comprehensive update on the impact of the U.S. funding freeze on...
Due to the U.S. Government’s freeze of foreign assistance, 15,374 PEPFAR-funded HIV response staff across national and 27 priority districts have been affected, with...
Country impact of the suspension of U.S. aid to Morocco
The U.S. freeze of foreign assistance to Morocco is severely affecting several HIV programmes, particularly those implemented by local non-governmental organizations (NGOs). This includes...
Airport Ads Awarded Lanseria Airport Media Rights Tender
Airport Ads®, a Provantage company, has announced that its exclusive airport advertising rights to Johannesburg's Lanseria International Airport have been extended. Airport Ads says...
Scaling a Small Business With TikTok
The way Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) market themselves is changing rapidly. Traditional advertising — expensive and often impersonal — is losing ground to...
Primedia Out-of-Home Appoints Genevieve Coward as Deputy Chief Executive Officer
Primedia Out-of-Home has announced the appointment of Genevieve Coward as Deputy Chief Executive Officer, effective Saturday, 1 March. With over a decade of experience...
Cape Town Cycle Tour’s Sustainability Efforts and its Importance for Local...
The Cape Town Cycle Tour highlights, for local businesses, particularly small and medium-sized enterprises, the importance of adopting sustainability practices in their operations, says...
Amazeballs Transforms Used Padel Balls Into Sustainable Design
Amazeballs, a new sustainability-focused non-profit initiative, has announced that it is upcycling used padel balls into furniture and art pieces, proving that sustainability and...
IMM Institute Announces 2025 IMM Excellence Awards Judges
The IMM Institute has announced the experts from their disciplines, in both marketing and supply chain management, who are gearing up to present awards...
DAWN Calls on ICC to Investigate U.S. Officials for War Crimes...
Armed Conflicts, Crime & Justice, Headlines, Human Rights, Humanitarian Emergencies, Middle East & North Africa, Migration & Refugees, TerraViva United Nations
The former President...
Sudan: Armed Group Allied to the Military Attacks Village
The Sudan Shield Forces, an armed group that fights alongside the Sudanese Armed Forces, intentionally targeted civilians and their property in an attack on...
House defeats proposal to allow Montana up to $50M in cryptocurrency...
A bill to authorize the state’s Board of Investments to invest in digital assets like Bitcoin failed a vote of the Montana House of...
Farmers Sue Trump USDA Over Deletion of ‘Vital’ Climate Information
Climate defenders and farmers sued the Trump administration in federal court on Monday over "the U.S. Department of Agriculture's unlawful purge of climate-related policies,...
Civil Society at the Finance in Common Summit Calls for Community-led,...
Civil Society, Climate Action, Climate Change, Development & Aid, Energy, Environment, Financial Crisis, Food and Agriculture, Global, Headlines, Human Rights, Inequality, Sustainability, TerraViva United...
Man who has visited 5,000 pubs gives local boozers top reviews
Dale Harvey and his partner Holly Booth set out on the mission around three years ago to celebrate and support local pubs as part...
APO Group Wins at the 2025 Brands Review Magazine Awards
Africa Press Organization (APO) Group has announced that it has been named the winner in three award categories by Brands Review Magazine, a renowned...
How our actions affect others – from driving more safely to...
American health and public safety are on the upswingLast year, deaths from drug overdoses, violent crime, and traffic accidents all decreased in official metrics.Deaths...
UN Chief Should Propose Transforming Kenyan-led Haiti Mission into UN Operation
The United Nations leadership should support the Haitian authorities’ long-standing request to transform the troubled Kenyan-led Multinational Security Support (MSS) mission to Haiti into...
The Caribbean Mourns Loss of a Singular Writer
Arts, Headlines, Latin America & the Caribbean Arts
Dr Velma Pollard at her Kingston home. Credit:AM/SWANKINGSTON, Feb 24 2025 (IPS) - Jamaican writer Velma...
Kenyan Police Officer Deployed to Tackle Gangs in Haiti Killed
A Kenyan police officer was shot and killed in Haiti on Sunday in an operation that was part of the international effort to help...
AfriGIS Appoints Helen Hulett as Chief Sustainability Officer
AfriGIS, a leading provider of trusted contextual insights, has appointed Helen Hulett as its new Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO). Hulett brings over 17 years...
EU: No ‘Business as Usual’ at Association Council with Israel
(Brussels) – European Union High Representative Kaja Kallas and EU foreign ministers should unequivocally condemn Israel’s atrocity crimes and other serious violations of international law...
Overdue Accountability in Democratic Republic of Congo
Until now, the international response to the rapidly escalating crisis in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where the Rwanda-backed M23 armed group has committed a...
Swindon Planning: Developers of flats in town centre get short shrift
Town Centre: Abode Time Lt’s proposal to turn Trinity Hall, at the bottom of Victoria Road at the junction with Clarence Street...
Amid Regional Diplomatic Furor, Sudan’s Paramilitaries Forge a Rival Government
The Rapid Support Forces, the paramilitary group fighting Sudan’s military in the country’s calamitous civil war, signed a political charter with its allies late...
Full Court Press: Montana high school basketball highlights (Feb. 22)
Editor's Note: To have games included here, submit scores and scoring details to 406mtsports.myteamscoop.com. The Full Court Press is updated as we receive results.• Helena...
Vatican says Pope Francis is in critical condition
ROME — Pope Francis was in critical condition Saturday after he suffered a prolonged asthmatic respiratory crisis while being treated for pneumonia and a...
Full Court Press: Montana high school basketball highlights (Feb. 21)
Editor's Note: To have games included here, submit scores and scoring details to 406mtsports.myteamscoop.com. The Full Court Press is updated as we receive results.• Helena...
From the Tigris and Euphrates to the Nile: WANA’s unresolved water...
View of the Euphrates River in Turkey in 1994 with the recently completed Ataturk Dam and resultant reservoir. Picture uploaded to Flickr by NASA...
In First Major Climate Challenge to Trump 2.0, Groups Work to...
Climate advocates are expressing confidence as they file the first major environmental legal challenges to U.S. President Donald Trump's administration, with the legal group...
Hindu devotional singing is having a moment
(RNS) — The winner of the 2025 Grammy Award for best new age, ambient or chant album — a category once dominated by Enya...
1st for Women Receives Recognition
1st for Women has announced that it has received a series of awards in 2024 that showcase the brand's commitment to empowering women, providing...
Washington adopts a Zimbabwe innovation: Grannies offering park-bench therapy
Outside the Bernice Elizabeth Fonteneau Wellness Center in Petworth, a historically Black neighborhood in Washington, D.C., bundled-up passersby swerve around piles of melting slush....
CIM and AMC Announce Partnership
The Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) and The African Marketing Confederation (AMC) have announced a partnership to collectively advance the marketing profession, for the...
How Personal Branding Can Help People in South Africa
In South Africa, where entrepreneurship, digital innovation and career growth are on the rise, personal branding plays a crucial role in helping individuals stand...
Humanitarian Groups Face Challenges in Reaching the Sudanese Displaced Population
Africa, Aid, Armed Conflicts, Crime & Justice, Food and Agriculture, Gender Violence, Headlines, Health, Human Rights, Humanitarian Emergencies, Migration & Refugees, TerraViva United Nations ...
How Tanzania’s Farmers, Pastoralists Paid the Price for a World Bank...
Africa, Aid, Biodiversity, Conservation, Development & Aid, Economy & Trade, Editors' Choice, Environment, Featured, Food Security and Nutrition, Headlines, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Natural...
US aid freeze puts HIV-positive orphans in Kenya at risk as...
NAIROBI, Kenya -- Two-year-old Evans was brought to the Nyumbani Children’s Home in Nairobi, Kenya a year ago, suffering from HIV and tuberculosis. With...
Swindon organisation appoints new chief executive
With almost 20 years of experience in the education sector, Ms Dilly has led national programmes for organisations such as the National...
Emergency Food, TB Tests and H.I.V. Drugs: Vital Health Aid Remains...
Funds for vital health programs around the world remain frozen and their work has not been able to resume, despite a federal judge’s order...
Guinean ‘Disappeared’ Activist Resurfaces with Marks of Torture
A prominent civil society leader in Guinea, Abdoul Sacko, went missing in the early hours of February 19, 2025, after gunmen took him from his...
What’s next for the Gaza ceasefire? Netanyahu pressed from all sides.
Phase Two of the ceasefire with Hamas in Gaza is confronting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with an impossible puzzle.Under immense pressure from U.S. President...
Mali: Armed Islamist Attack on Convoy Kills 34 Civilians
(Nairobi) – An apparent Islamist armed group attacked a civilian convoy escorted by Malian armed forces and allied militias in northeastern Mali on February...
Study Shows Glaciers Have Lost ‘3 Olympic Swimming Pools Per Second’...
An international science project on Wednesday published a study in the journal Nature showing that glaciers have lost an average of 273 billion metric...
Status of HIV Programmes in Botswana
Documented Impact on Services: Government Support: HIV programmes are primarily (60%) supported by the government, with public health facilities operating normally.
Service Disruptions: All key population drop-in...
Blamed for ‘Causing’ Droughts: Zimbabwe’s LGBTQI Community Faces Climate Crisis Head-on
Active Citizens, Africa, Civil Society, Climate Action, Climate Change, Climate Change Justice, Editors' Choice, Environment, Featured, Gender, Gender Identity, Headlines, Human Rights, LGBTQ, Terraviva...
media update’s 10th Birthday Top Marketing Picks
For media update's 10th birthday, the team is looking back and shining a new spotlight on some of the best articles published over the...
Everything Naked Marketing Does Right
Since its establishment in 2018, Naked Insurance has quickly become a household name in South Africa. In large part, this is due to its...
Seseki Itsweng Named Managing Director of Octagon Africa
Octagon has announced Seseki Itsweng as Managing Director of Africa. Itsweng will be based in Octagon's Johannesburg office and will operate both in South...
Social Media in the Global South Needs More Protections
Development & Aid, Economy & Trade, Education, Global, Headlines, Health, Press Freedom, TerraViva United Nations
The United Nations’ 2024 Summit of the Future Interactive...
The Arab States Must Stop Trump– and Netanyahu– in Their Tracks
Armed Conflicts, Featured, Global Governance, Headlines, Human Rights, Humanitarian Emergencies, International Justice, IPS UN: Inside the Glasshouse, Middle East & North Africa, TerraViva United...
Trump’s foreign aid freeze halted a crucial program fighting HIV in...
HARARE, Zimbabwe -- Florence Makumene held a plastic container of HIV medication and wondered if it would be her last as fears swelled of...
Malian filmmaker Souleymane Cissé, a pioneer of African cinema, dies
Malian filmmaker Souleymane Cissé, a pioneer of African cinema with a career spanning 50 years, has died at age 84BAMAKO, Mali -- Malian filmmaker...
Montanans, workers warn mass Forest Service layoffs will impact public lands,...
A retired Forest Service supervisor is calling the recent terminations of over 300 federal workers in Montana a "disaster" for the state. Recently fired...
Bessent to Skip G20 Finance Ministers Meeting in South Africa
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will skip a meeting of finance ministers and central bankers from the Group of 20 nations in Cape Town next...
Impact of the pause of US foreign assistance in Côte d’Ivoire
A confusing and evolving situation in Côte d'Ivoire
The 90-day pause in US foreign assistance has caused a major shock to the national response to...
Burundi: Climate change makes rainy season a public danger in urban...
Flooding in Gatumba (western Burundi). Screenshot from the video “Burundi: Severe Flooding” on the Tv5monde Info YouTube Channel. Fair use.This article was published as...
Havas Africa Officially Launches Havas Play
Havas Africa has announced that it has officially launched Havas Play, its global network with expertise across sponsorships, partnerships, experiential, social, influencers and branded...
media update’s 10th Birthday Top Media Picks
Hip hip hooray! media update is turning 10! And what better way to celebrate a decade of content than taking a scroll through memory...
The Hive Group Appoints Shannon Naicker as Chief Innovation Officer
The Hive Group has appointed Shannon Naicker as its new Chief Innovation Officer to accelerate growth and enhance operational efficiency through innovation.As The Hive...
Engel & Völkers Florida Closes 2024 with Record Year In Talent...
"We continue to thrive by prioritizing quality over...
MarkLives Announces 2025 The Mark Awards
MarkLives has announced the 2025 The Mark Awards — a new platform dedicated to recognising achievements in marketing and advertising across strategy, innovation, design,...
Dentsu X: Shaping the future of experiences
At dentsu X, we don’t just create experiences – we craft moments that matter. Moments that speak to the heart of consumer motivations and...
Dentsu X: Shaping the future of experiences
At dentsu X, we don’t just create experiences – we craft moments that matter. Moments that speak to the heart of consumer motivations and...
Trump’s War on Global Governance: Lessons from the Past on How...
Civil Society, Democracy, Featured, Global, Global Governance, Headlines, Human Rights, International Justice, IPS UN: Inside the Glasshouse, TerraViva United Nations Opinion
Daniel D. Bradlow is...
Wiltshire school celebrates record number of Duke of Edinburgh awards
Royal Wootton Bassett Academy has seen a busy year with students hiking, voyaging, and traipsing through woods and hills to achieve their...
RSF Announces Plans for Breakaway Government in Sudan
The Rapid Support Forces, the paramilitary group battling for power in Sudan’s ruinous civil war, took a step toward forming its own breakaway government...
Shaping AI Rules Through Trade Agreements
Asia-Pacific, Development & Aid, Economy & Trade, Featured, Headlines, IPS UN: Inside the Glasshouse, Sustainable Development Goals, TerraViva United Nations Opinion
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and...