Editorial coverage from the Newcastle South Africa Wire newsroom.
Au Sénégal, améliorer la production locale de riz ne dépend pas seulement de la disponibilité de semences performantes. Pour les petits producteurs, l’accès au crédit et la sécurité des droits fonciers peuvent aussi déterminer la capacité à…
Conversations around health progress in Africa usually focus on lives saved. And rightly so. Across the continent, people are living longer01330-3/fulltext) than they did a generation ago.
The success of South Korean popular music or K-pop continues to power the Hallyu Wave, a term that describes the global obsession with the country’s pop culture production.
South Africa endured its worst year of loadshedding (scheduled power cuts by the country’s utility, Eskom) in 2023. The power went off on 335 of the year’s 365 days, often several times a day.
Climate change and changes in the way land is used are the two biggest threats to wildlife because they change the environment in which animals survive and thrive.
In many African cities, a broken fridge is rarely thrown away immediately. It may be repaired and resold, dismantled for spare parts or collected for its metal components.
Schools are often among the first places where emotional and behavioural difficulties become visible. Learners may start missing classes, withdrawing from friends or struggling academically.
La réduction de la pollution atmosphérique en Afrique présente de nombreux avantages économiques, selon une nouvelle étude menée par les spécialistes des sciences de l’environnement Chris Malley, Kevin Hicks et Caroline Sawe.
South Africa’s education system is often described as the key to overcoming the legacy of apartheid.
Across sub-Saharan Africa, revenue authorities are increasingly changing how they engage with small businesses. The traditional approach involved audits, penalties and inspections.
A patrol boat off the coast of Gabon intercepted three trawlers in July 2026, inside the Grand Sud Reserve. This is one of west and central Africa’s largest marine reserves, where industrial trawling is banned.
Worldwide about 13.5 million children have never received a vaccine at all. These are known as zero-dose children. Reaching them is central to the Immunization Agenda 2030, a global drive to ensure that everyone has access to the vaccines t…