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Umm Muhammed Umar In Colombia the elections to select a new president, at the weekend, had been a race that seemingly defied expectations. Polls placed the two candidates, former rebel member and leftist, Gustavo Petro, and the conservative outsider Rodolpho...

By Neelam Rahim After a nine-year hiatus, the long-awaited inexperienced Drop report paints a bleak picture: half the waste treatment works in African nation fail to treat waste product properly and, in several cases, fail to treat it. Anthony Turton of the Centre for...

By Neelam Rahim South Africa has identified its first case of monkeypox since a world outbreak began. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), a division of the National Health Laboratory Service, confirms that a case of monkeypox has been identified...

By Neelam Rahim The government has officially tabled salary increase offers of up to 7.5% for the majority of public servants. At the same time, there is outrage over substantial pay increases for MPs, ministers and their deputies. Parliament has defended the pay...