Editorial coverage from the Newcastle South Africa Wire newsroom.
La Guinée-Bissau a changé de régime politique. La nouvelle Constitution soumise à référendum le 30 août 2026 et approuvée à 70 % renforce nettement les pouvoirs du président de la République, au détriment du Premier ministre et du gouvernem…
Africa boasts up to 25% of Earth’s animal and plant species. This diversity is driven by diverse habitats: harsh deserts, vast grasslands, dense forests, towering mountains, lush coastlines and teeming seas.
On 9 October 1876, Solomon Tshekisho “Sol” Plaatje was born in the rural interior of what is now South Africa. He was raised in a Setswana-speaking Barolong family and grew up on a German mission station in the then Cape Colony.
À Madagascar, un fait criminel local peut rapidement être commenté sur Facebook comme le signe d’une insécurité généralisée. Comment s’opère ce basculement ?
Climate does more than shape the weather. It can influence when and where infectious diseases emerge by changing how disease-carrying vectors and animal hosts survive and behave.
In southern Africa, the El Niño – caused by warmer sea surface temperatures in the Pacific Ocean which affect air pressure and wind directions – usually brings below-average summer rainfall and increases the risk of drought.
Grain legumes, also known as pulses, are an important source of calories and income for rural households and small farmers globally. Beans, especially dry beans, are the most traded and consumed grain legume crop in southern Africa.
Le Sahara occidental est divisé en deux depuis les années 1980 par un mur que le Maroc a construit pour conserver le territoire qu'il occupe depuis 1975.
Every local government election season, South Africans are handed the same menu. They hear from councillor hopefuls that they will repair potholes, stop water outages and power cuts, and improve refuse collection.
World leaders have been asked to support a proposed International Panel on Inequality. Brazil, Norway, South Africa and Spain, together with Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz, made the call on the margins of the UN General Assembly meeting in…
Estimates of the number of people directly killed in Sudan’s civil war vary widely, in part because counting casualties in active conflict zones is extremely difficult.
Le Sénégal se trouve devant un paradoxe historique. Après avoir découvert que sa dette était bien plus élevée que les chiffres officiellement communiqués, le pays s’apprête à accepter un nouveau programme avec le FMI destiné à rétablir ses…