Husqvarna Partners With International Organisations to Restore Kenya’s Mangrove Forests
Husqvarna has partnered with environmental organisations, veritree and Earthlungs, to champion the Kenyan Mangrove Restoration Projects. The projects aim to plant more than 300...
Good Hope FM Supports Cape Town Pride Mardi Gras Festival
Good Hope FM has announced that it will once again be donning its brightest colours in supporting the Pride Mardi Gras Festival which is set...
‘I didn’t know I needed it.’ Why neighborhoods rally to save...
A man sitting two seats away from me at the West Newton Cinema is sobbing, again.His long gray beard flows in convulsing waves to...
Bizcommunity Launches BizTrendsTV
Bizcommunity has announced the launch of BizTrendsTV — a first-of-its-kind venture for Bizcommunity's annual trend content. The content will be available via multimedia platforms...
African Leaders Challenged To Unite Against Energy Transition Mineral Oppressors
Active Citizens, Africa, Armed Conflicts, Civil Society, Climate Change, COP28, Development & Aid, Economy & Trade, Featured, Headlines, Human Rights, Humanitarian Emergencies, Labour, Natural...
Togo: US aid suspension will negatively impact public health and education
Boxes labeled USAID. Screenshot from the video “The suspension of USAID funds is already having an impact in Côte d’Ivoire on the RFI YouTube...
In Yemen, activists seek to restore rubble-strewn sanctuary for migrating birds
In Adham Saleh’s childhood memory, the wetlands on the edge of this coastal city look like a postcard.When he was a boy, he came...
EU Accused of ‘Bowing to Pressure’ From Trump With Plan to...
On Wednesday, the European Commission, the executive branch of the European Union, unveiled its Affordable Energy Action Plan, a list of actions ostensibly aimed...
Military Plane Crash in Residential Area Kills at Least 46 in...
The crash of a military aircraft in a residential area of Sudan’s capital killed at least 46 people, regional officials said on Wednesday, adding...
Singer-musician Rhiannon Giddens calls off Kennedy Center show, citing Trump takeover
NEW YORK -- Award-winning singer-musician Rhiannon Giddens has become the latest artist to call off an appearance at the Kennedy Center, which has been...
Accenture Song Announces Strategic Leadership Change
Accenture Song has announced a strategic leadership change in South Africa. Effective immediately, Celeste Koert has been appointed as the new lead, succeeding James...
Excellerate Brand Management Wins at the 2024 Footprint Awards
Excellerate Brand Management (EBM) has claimed multiple accolades at the 2024 Footprint Awards presented by the South African Council of Shopping Centres (SACSC). This...
Creators Aren’t Just Influencers; They’re Entrepreneurs
For too long, digital creators have been dismissed as hobbyists or lucky influencers who stumbled into success. But the reality is very different. Today,...
DKMS Launches Schools Awareness Programme in KwaZulu-Natal
DKMS, a global organisation committed to fighting blood cancer by increasing the number of blood stem cell donors, has announced the launch of its...
Life-Changing Quarry Mining Shatters Lives in Zimbabwe
Active Citizens, Africa, Civil Society, Disaster Management, Environment, Featured, Headlines, Human Rights, Natural Resources, TerraViva United Nations Environment
Worried residents look at a flooded pool,...
Wildfire Burning on Table Mountain Moves Toward Cape Town
Firefighters in Cape Town on Wednesday were battling a wildfire that broke out in Table Mountain National Park and spread overnight toward the city,...
ANTY Introduces Everform, a Collection of Minimalist Luxury for Modern Elegance
Everform is a collection is for those who...
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...