Africanews  

Dozens of Israelis demonstrated outside the Knesset in West Jerusalem on 17 September, accusing political leaders of using regional tensions to interfere with the 27 October parliamentary election.

Design Indaba  

Architect and artist Elsa Ponce transforms a New York street with an inspired climate responsive walkway

Africanews  

Protesters in San Francisco urged OpenAI and Anthropic to pause powerful AI, calling for global rules and an AI emergency amid safety and climate fears.

Design Indaba  

Pentagram’s Paula Scher maps the space women have been granted in democracy.

Africanews  

The Head of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) witnessed first-hand the threats to community safety in Unity State and, in response, deferred closing a UN base there.

BBC News Africa  

The mother of two young children was kidnapped last week in the middle of the day in the main city, Blantyre

BBC News Africa  

Authorities linked the deaths to disease, but the official explanation has been disputed by intelligence reports and relatives of the accused.

BBC News Africa  

Many Nigerians buy their first ever shares - in the oil refinery owned by Africa's richest man, Aliko Dangote.

Africanews  

The discovery of the bodies of nine women in the same area on the outskirts of South Africa's biggest city, Johannesburg, in the last two months have prompted police to investigate if the killings are linked and being carried out by the same person. Women say they're living in fear.

Africanews  

Displaced Yemenis who fled to Djibouti have been describing the fighting that forced them to leave. At least 100,000 people have left Yemen since the start of September as Iran-backed Houthi rebels advanced on the coast, seizing control of the strategic Bab el-Mandeb strait.

Africanews  

In a report co-authored with Caritas, the diocese of Pointe-Noire said farmers in the Koilou department have reported sharp drops in cassava harvests. The residents pointed the finger at gas flaring by oil companies

Africanews  

Medical teams face brutal conditions as grave diggers work night and day to bury victims of the Ebola outbreak which continues to grip the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Africanews  

For Sudanese women, keeping the tradition alive has become a way of preserving cultural identity amid profound upheaval.

Africanews  

The Palestinian Authority on Thursday slammed a decision by the United States to refuse visas for its officials to attend the UN General Assembly in New York next week, a move which includes president Mahmoud Abbas according to a source familiar with the case

Africanews  

The war in the Middle East has weakened Iran militarily but it hasn’t changed Tehran’s hatred for his country, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday.

Africanews  

In the coastal Gambian town of Tanji, Sirah Darboe-Manneh cleans fish next to a row of ice boxes laying empty because of relentless power cuts. With limited supplies of ice, storing the daily catch has become almost impossible

Africanews  

The debate reflects a growing global question: how to harness AI's benefits while limiting its risks.

This Is Africa  

Zimbabwe’s shift to biometric e-passports masks a critical vulnerability: digital sovereignty. With foreign firms building the state's digital identity infrastructure, convenience risks becoming a new form of dependency. This article analyses the hidden geopolitical costs of outsourced technology and ask a defining question: who truly controls the digital Zimbabwean?

Africanews  

This business in Lockland, Ohio, looks like a bike shop, but it’s a lot more than that. It’s also a gathering center for Mauritanians seeking asylum in the United States.

Africanews  

Intense rainfall dumped up to 96 mm on Torrent, south‑west of Valencia, flooding roads, homes and the Parc Central tunnel, trapping cars and prompting emergency pumping operations.

This Is Africa  

Zimbabwe’s cultural industry is confronting a deeper question than patronage: can art remain culturally independent when financially vulnerable creators receive cars, cash and other rewards from powerful benefactors? The debate exposes tensions between artistic survival, political influence and cultural ownership, raising urgent questions about whether Zimbabwe’s creative legacy can truly be bought.