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Liquefied natural gas (LNG) took an even harder hit. Oil prices surged more than 50% but LNG soared as much as 143%—a three-year high. Photo warrenski

The impact of the US/Israel–Iran crisis on Asia

The LNG shock was underestimated. The foreign exchange and inflation feedback loop has proved more challenging than anticipated

Conditional: Iran has accepted the ceasefire but on certain terms.

Immediate ceasefire declared as US and Iran head to Islamabad talks

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif announced that the ceasefire would apply “everywhere including Lebanon and elsewhere”, positioning Islamabad as the central diplomatic…

Protesters waving Palestinian flags and posters opposite the Cape Town Holocaust and Genocide Centre on Tuesday to mark International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide. Photo: Matthew Hirsch

Protesters demand that Cape Town holocaust centre recognise genocide in Gaza

The vigil also marked the International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide

Devastation: People search the rubble of the Bureij camp for refugees in Gaza destroyed by an Israeli attack. (Eyad Baba/AFP)

Urgent need to form a global bloc against genocide

Unified action led by states must follow South Africa’s stand against Israel to stop the killings in Gaza and Western-backed impunity

A woman mourns the people killed and kidnapped on 7 October 2023 in Israel. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)

Israel marks first anniversary of Hamas’s 7 October attack

The attack claimed more than 1 200 lives, while more than 41 000 people, the majority civilians, have been killed in Israel’s war on Gaza

Pakistani education activist Malala Yousafzai arrives for the Kering Foundation’s second annual Caring for Women Dinner at The Pool in New York City on September 12, 2023. (Photo by KENA BETANCUR/AFP via Getty Images)

Malala Yousafzai calls on SA to lead ‘gender apartheid’ fight

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Gutted: Businesses and
homes have been torn
apart in Sudan’s capital. (Photo by Omer Erdem/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Sudan fighting hits home

First, they took away people’s dreams of democracy and peace. Now the men with guns are looting and occupying their homes

On guard: A South African soldier in the United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (John Wessels/AFP)

South African soldiers have been fighting in a distant land for 20 years

Troops were sent to the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2001 as part of the UN peacekeeping mission that became an offensive against rebels

Israel declares seven-hour ceasefire in Gaza

Following international outrage over a strike on a UN school in the Gaza Strip, Israel has said it will temporarily cease its attacks in some areas.

Israel agrees to extend Gaza truce

Israel has extended the 12-hour truce by four hours after international powers called on it and Palestinian militants to extend the ceasefire.

The government continues to deny the existence of a deep and widespread famine. Photo: Ahmed Satti/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

Security tightened after deadly attack on UN base in South Sudan

South Sudan has sent troops to secure a UN base which was attacked by gunmen on Thursday, who killed at least 48 people.

Mali, Niger evacuate citizens from Central African Republic

Violence in the Central African Republic has uprooted nearly a million people, a fifth of the population, and is hampering aid efforts.

Syria has been accused of killing at least 95 civilians and destroying hundreds of houses in Idlib

Eleventh-hour crackdown

Syria has been accused of killing at least 95 civilians and destroying hundreds of houses in Idlib, in a last-minute dash before the ceasefire was called.

Gaza, Israel truce begins to show progress

Previous ceasefire deals after earlier rounds of fighting have often got off to a slow start with guns falling silent within a day or two.

South Sudan accuses north of provocation

The south Sudanese army accused the north’s troops of provoking it, with the intention of breaking a ceasefire agreement between the two.

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Sudan, Darfur rebels sign ceasefire agreement

Sudan and Darfur’s main rebel group signed a ceasefire agreement on Tuesday.

Sudan, rebel group to sign Darfur ceasefire in Qatar

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir is expected to sign a ceasefire deal in Doha with a key rebel group, hopefully ending the conflict in Sudan.

EU earmarks €32-million in aid for Gaza

The European Commission announced on Monday that it was providing €58-million in humanitarian aid to vulnerable Palestinians this year.

Israeli army says Gaza pullout complete

Israeli troops completed on Wednesday their withdrawal from the Gaza Strip after a 22-day offensive against the Islamist Hamas movement.

Gaza peace talks under way in Egypt

A Hamas delegation was in Cairo on Tuesday to discuss an Egyptian-proposed ceasefire with Israel.