Africa Articles

Sameera Casmod | sameerac@radioislam.co.za 15 October 2024 | 23:10 CAT 3-minute read Flooding crisis in Chad Chad has been grappling with severe floods since July, and the situation continues to worsen. Nearly a million people have been displaced, and at least 145...

Sameera Casmod | sameerac@radioislam.co.za 17 September 2024 | 12:04 p.m. SAST 1-minute read Soaring temperatures in Africa break records The continent has been affected by heat waves, with temperatures in the summer of 2024 breaking all previous records. While the...

Sameera Casmod | sameerac@radioislam.co.za 10 September 2024 | 12:10 p.m. SAST 2-minute read China pledged $51 billion at the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) which was held last week from September 4-6 2024 and aims to facilitate collaborative efforts to...

Sameera Casmod | sameerac@radioislam.co.za 03 September 2024 | 16:12 SAST 3-minute read The second Indonesia-Africa forum, held in Bali from 1 September and set to conclude today, seeks to boost strategic relations, open trade options between Jakarta and Africa, and...

Sameera Casmod | sameerac@radioislam.co.za 20 August 2024 | 12:36 p.m. SAST 1-minute read Young people in Kenya have taken to the streets to demand political reform, effective leadership and an end to corruption in protests dubbed the ‘Gen Z uprising’. The finance...

Sameera Casmod | sameerac@radioislam.co.za 06 August 2024 | 11:40 a.m. CAT 1-minute read The ongoing famine in Sudan’s Zamzam camp near al Fasher in northern Darfur has reached extreme proportions and is likely to persist until October, according to the UN’s hunger...

Sameera Casmod | sameerac@radioislam.co.za 30 July 2024 | 22:15 SAST 2-minute read Turkey has approved a two-year military deployment to Somalia to support the country’s counterterrorism operations, further reinforcing the support it has shown for the African country...