The remarkable efficacy of new diabetes and weight loss medicines like Ozempic and Mounjaro have been one of the biggest health stories of recent years. Despite rising rates of diabetes and obesity, ...

The South African government declared a national disaster towards the end of 2024 in response to an outbreak of food-borne ...

Every day, more than 100 children arrive at Raja Hospital suffering from diarrhea, malaria, and pneumonia. The treatment options are limited due to a dire shortage of essential medications in the ...

But when the jet stream gets wobbly, the cold air can bust out and travel south. Temperatures can fall by tens of degrees within hours and snow can hit parts of the United States like Florida and ...

We would like to thank the World Economic Forum and especially Professor Klaus Schwab for giving South Africa this opportunity to outline our objectives and priorities for the G20 Summit that will be ...

Theo Neethling receives funding from the National Research Foundation. South Africa’s political and economic landscape shifted significantly after the 2024 national elections. The ruling ANC’s ...

It helps its war in Ukraine,” Filatova, a senior research associate at the University of Cape Town, told CNN from South Africa. In CAR, Martin Ziguélé, a former prime minister and current ...

The continent's most electrified nations, concentrated largely in North Africa but including South Africa, Ghana, and Kenya, boast higher urbanization rates, attract more investment, and foster ...

Women's cricket in Africa is strongest in the south of the continent, and there are pockets of growth and progress in the east. But now, for the first time, the west will have a presence at a ...

At least 78 dead bodies have been retrieved from a discontinued gold mine in South Africa where police cut off food and water supplies for months, in what trade unions called a “horrific ...

The Straits Times looks at key issues raised at the forum, organised from Jan 7 to 10 by the GHHIN South-east Asia Hub based at the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. Heat in South-east Asia is ...

Output per head may be no higher in 2026 than it was in 2015. Two giants, Nigeria and South Africa, have done atrociously. Only a few countries, such as Ivory Coast and Rwanda, have bucked the trend.