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Dr Shakira Choonara was the regional adolescent manager at the SRHR Africa Trust. This article is amended from a presentation given at a Higher Education and Training HIV/AIDS event in Durban in 2017.

Italy fines Apple and Samsung

Italy’s competition authority has fined Apple and Samsung €10-million and €5-million respectively for the ‘planned obsolescence’ of their smartphones

The problem is not confined to countries in the Global South. October 16 marked one year since Daphne Caruana Galizia, a Maltese journalist investigating corruption, was killed by a car bomb. (Reuters)

Journalist murder a toxic mystery in Malta one year on

Three men who allegedly carried out the car bombing have been arrested and are facing trial, but whoever ordered the killing remains free

Growing alarm over stockpiled weapons in Libya

Tripoli buckling under humanitarian situation

Libyan rebels are facing a new battle by struggling to provide Tripoli’s residents with water, electricity, petrol and food.

Libya rebels launch massive attack on Gaddafi lair

Libyan rebels have launched a massive offensive on Muammar Gaddafi’s compound in Tripoli, as the strongman’s son refuted reports of his own arrest.

The Irish teen who tracks and kills Gaddafi’s snipers

With his flipped-round baseball cap and "Just Do It" T-shirt, Tareg Gazel looks like any other 19-year-old. But his job is to kill Gaddafi snipers.

Huge crowds maintain pressure on Mubarak

Huge crowds maintain pressure on Mubarak

Egyptian protesters massed on Friday for sweeping "departure day" demonstrations to force President Hosni Mubarak to quit.

Fresh bid to break Côte d’Ivoire deadlock

Fresh bid to break Côte d’Ivoire deadlock

Africa’s mediator in Côte d’Ivoire’s leadership crisis flew to Abidjan on Monday, armed with a new offer to get Laurent Gbagbo to step down.

Côte d’Ivoire’s Gbagbo intensifies stand-off

Côte d’Ivoire’s Gbagbo intensifies stand-off

Ivorian strongman Laurent Gbagbo’s stand-off with the world intensified on Friday after Britain and Canada rejected his expulsion of their envoys.

Gbagbo expels UK

Gbagbo expels UK, Canada envoys

Gbagbo’s government said it was expelling the British and Canadian envoys from Côte d’Ivoire, as the countries no longer accepted his ambassadors.

Ouattara sacks top officials close to ex-rival

Côte d’Ivoire’s Gbagbo orders UK, Cananda envoys out

Laurent Gbagbo’s government said it was expelling the British and Canadian envoys from Côte d’Ivoire, as countries stopped accepting his ambassadors.

Clinton visits Côte d’Ivoire to ‘strengthen democracy’

African leaders bid to end Côte d’Ivoire crisis

African mediators flew in to Côte d’Ivoire on Monday in their bid to get President Laurent Gbagbo to stand down following disputed polls.

Street clashes as French battle Sarkozy reform

French workers and students took to the streets once again on Tuesday to defend their right to retire at 60.

Bandits kidnap tourists in Sahara

Masked bandits have kidnapped a group of 19 foreign tourists and Egyptians who were on an expedition in a remote corner of the Sahara Desert.

Internet failure hits business from Cairo to Colombo

Damage to undersea internet cables hit businesses across the Middle East and South Asia on Thursday, including the vital call-centre industry, prompting calls for people to limit…

Sudan pardons UK teacher over teddy-bear insult

A British woman jailed in Sudan for insulting religion by naming a teddy bear after the Prophet Muhammad was to be released on Monday after being granted a presidential pardon.…

British peers in Sudan to seek teddy teacher’s release

Two Muslim members of Britain’s House of Lords were in Khartoum on Saturday to seek the release of a British woman teacher jailed for insulting Islam after she named a teddy bear…

Desert art in danger at Egypt’s new tourism frontier

A rising tide of travellers seeking out the new frontier of Egyptian tourism is threatening priceless rock art preserved for millennia in one of the most-isolated reaches of the…

Deadlier than Darfur: Sudan’s neglected eastern crisis

Helicopter gunships and a humanitarian crisis greet the few Westerners who make it to Kassala, an eastern Sudanese town far from the infamous Darfur region, where analysts say a…

Sudan’s ex-rebels show unity with Khartoum

Former southern Sudanese rebels wound up landmark talks with the ruling party in Khartoum on Monday, vowing to work as partners but failing to reach agreement on a disputed…

Anger over Egypt ferry tragedy sparks violence

A mob of Egyptians ransacked on Monday the offices of the owners of a ferry that sank in the Red Sea as anger over the fate of relatives missing after one of the worst maritime…