While the summit leaders solemnly swear that they are singing off the same struggle song sheet towards progressive development, the bloc’s leaders’ solidarity is mostly skin-deep
Independent reports slam Cape Town’s Covid-19 homeless site, the city says things have improved since independent monitors visited the site
South Africa can work hard to be the positive example to lead the way for proper and humane migration management by improving its immigration policies
Doctors Without Borders reaches out to people, driven solely by medical criteria and independent from any powers.
Western nations are turning their backs on refugees fleeing war and there are alarming signals that Kenya and South Africa may adopt this stance.
This is not the first time the US has bombed a hospital.
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Personal accounts from Liberia and Sierra Leone bring home the devastation wrought by the virus.
Humanitarian aid organisation Médecins Sans Frontières is pulling out of the country, saying the threat of deadly violence has become intolerable.
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Radios, local doctors and techniques to help underweight newborns are saving the lives of women and children in Burundi.
Tens of thousands of people have already swarmed to a refugee camp in South Sudan and a new wave will soon begin the trek from the Nuba Mountains.
Médecins Sans Frontières has warned that Malaria cases have increased dramatically in the DRC, leaving clinics and treatment centres unable to cope.
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/ 26 January 2012
An MSF report claims 15 000 Aids victims in Congo will likely die waiting for ARVs in the next three years because of "horrific" health care access.
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Fighting between tribes in its troubled Jonglei state has led South Sudan to declare the area a disaster zone, pleading for help from relief agencies.
Armed Lou Nuer youths have marched on Pibor, home to the rival Murle people, who they blame for cattle raiding and have vowed to exterminate.
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/ 30 December 2011
Médecins Sans Frontières has confirmed that two staff members, a Belgian and an Indonesian, have been killed by a gunman in war-torn Mogadishu.
An Afghan woman has an average of five babies in her lifetime — with mothers saying it is hard, lonely and frightening.
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/ 5 September 2011
Famine has spread to another Somali region and the UN has warned more areas will become affected in the next four months.
Médecins Sans Frontières has revealed that Tripoli’s Abu Salim Hospital has been shut down because staff and patients can no longer access it.
Low on medical staff and much-needed supplies in Libya, Médecins Sans Frontières is appealing to SA to send more doctors to the war-torn country.
The biggest refugee camp in the world is full, creating a humanitarian emergency that threatens thousands of malnourished children, MSF has warned.
The successes of SA’s first public-sector ARV programme shows governments what can be achieved ahead of the United Nations High-Level Meeting on Aids.
Aids patients and government officials on Friday celebrated the 10th anniversary of a pioneering program that brought drugs to impoverished people.
Access to healthcare in Côte d’Ivoire has been hit hard by post-election violence, Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) reported on Friday.
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/ 13 January 2011
(DRC government troops have been blamed for abuses, including rapes and looting, in of Sud-Kivu to avenge the death of one of their colleagues.
Now is not the time to cut funding for HIV/Aids, say the TAC, MSF and Cosatu, among others.
As many as 300 Zimbabweans are arriving in South Africa a day to apply for asylum, Médecins Sans Frontières said on Wednesday.
More than a month after xenophobic attacks shook Gauteng, feelings of desperation worsen among thousands of foreigners housed at temporary shelters.
Jaspreet Kindra The Black Economic Empowerment Commission’s final report, which was released last weekend, is intent on uplifting the majority of South Africans rather than building a black bourgeoisie. Commission chair Cyril Rama-phosa said a broader definition of black empowerment was accepted by the African National Congress’s economic transformation committee two weeks ago. The new […]