Neelam Rahim | neelam@radioislam.co.za 3-minute read 04 June 2025 | 10:15 CAT Africa enters the new year amid seismic...
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Media Lens | Africa’s Rising Challenges: A Continent at a Crossroads in 2025
Neelam Rahim | neelam@radioislam.co.za 3-minute read 28 May 2025 | 11:45 CAT As Africa enters 2025, it faces a complex...
Africa Report: Geopolitical Shifts, Trade Wars & Pan-African Realities
Neelam Rahim | neelam@radioislam.co.za 3-minute read 27 May 2025 | 15:45 CAT In a rapidly evolving geopolitical...
Women informal cross-border traders are facing monumental hurdles
Neelam Rahim | neelam@radioislam.co.za 2-minute read 11 March 2024 | 19:50 CAT The governments of Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe have failed to protect women participating in Informal Cross-Border Trade (ICBT) from gender-based violence and economic exploitation, which...
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Sameera Casmod | sameerac@radioislam.co.za 05 March 2024 | 12:58 p.m. SAST 2 minute read Zambia has recently declared a national emergency due to severe drought conditions, resulting in significant water shortages in the region. The situation has prompted immediate...
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Sameera Casmod | sameerac@radioislam.co.za 27 February 2024 | 12:12 p.m. SAST 2 minute read Nearly a year since the violence in the region began, displaced Sudanese people in the ZamZam camp in North Darfur are suffering from high levels of malnutrition and...
Zimbabwe politics: Nelson Chamisa’s resignation due to state ‘infiltration’
Sameera Casmod | sameerac@radioislam.co.za 16 February 2024 | 12:00 p.m. SAST 1 minute read Following the resignation of Nelson Chamisa on January 25 from the Citizens Coalition for Change, a party that he founded, opposition politics in Zimbabwe are under scrutiny....
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Sameera Casmod | sameerac@radioislam.co.za 13 February 2024 | 12:32 p.m. [SAST] 3 minute read There is growing dissent in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) for what they see as Western support of neighbouring Rwanda. According to reports, police dispersed...
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Sameera Casmod | sameerac@radioislam.co.za 06 February 2024 | 20:55 SAST 2-min read In this week’s Africa Report with Ashraf Patel, a senior lecturer at the University of Witwatersrand’s Business School: Senegalese election postponed, Italy’s Africa initiative...
Zimbabwe opposition leader Job Sikhana released after court decision
Sameera Casmod | sameerac@radioislam.co.za 02 February 2024 | 10:14 a.m. SAST 1-min read The Zimbabwean opposition politician, Job Sikhala, was freed after 600 days of pre-trial detention on Tuesday when a Harare court handed him a suspended sentence. Sikhala joined...
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Sameera Casmod | sameerac@radioislam.co.za 30 January 2024 | 23:00 SAST 2-min read Egypt decries West’s UNRWA cuts, Africa ought to eye Italy’s development plan cautiously The Prime Minister of Italy, Georgia Meloni, at a summit on Monday, discussed the details of a...
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Sameera Casmod sameerac@radioislam.co.za 23 January 2024 | 21:39 SAST 2-min read In this week's Africa Report on Radio Islam International, John Bwasa, an academic with a diverse educational background, discussed the issue of leadership failure in Africa, using the...
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