50+ min ago   (764+ words) Cubans wave flags in front of a billboard depicting the late leader Fidel Castro and reading "Homeland or death, we will defeat!" Cuba has withstood humanity’s greatest threat with dignity, and it is the duty of all of us to…...

1+ hour, 51+ min ago   (950+ words) A voter casts her ballot at Shalla Park polling station in Addis Ababa, on June 1, 2026, during the 2026 Ethiopian parliamentary elections. The 2026 election saw the continued rollback of many reforms that came with the 2018 transition, say the writers. Abadir M. Ibrahim and…...

8+ hour, 50+ min ago   (860+ words) President Cyril Ramaphosa, Ministers, Premiers and Executive Mayors of Metropolitan Municipalities in a group picture following an engagement on aligning national and local government's service delivery, infrastructure investment, and economic growth strategies held in Boksburg on April 30. As we draw…...

4+ hour, 50+ min ago   (881+ words) An electoral commission official prepares ballot papers at a polling station in Mabopane township, north of Pretoria, on November 1, 2021, during the last local elections. Opinion polls are a global phenomenon. Before an election, independent survey companies, media houses, political parties,…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago   (849+ words) Displaced Somali women hold their severely malnourished babies in a stabilization centre for children suffering severe accute malnutrition in Kismayo, Somalia on April 22. Today across Africa, women and girls remain caught in a confluence of armed conflict, forced displacement, food…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago   (823+ words) Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma congratulates Cyril Ramaphosa following his election as ANC President at the 54th ANC elective conference in Johannesburg on December 18, 2017. Nine years after his 2017 campaign, the country is still no wiser about the identity of Ramaphosa’s funders or the extent…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago   (947+ words) Supporters of the Democratic Alliance at the party's local government elections manifesto launch held at the Mary Fitzgerald Square in Johannesburg on August 8. The DA’s policies of austerity, privatisation and deregulation are not designed to serve the interests of ordinary…...

5+ day, 8+ hour ago   (1642+ words) Roselina Seaga (67), speaks out on whether Section 25 of the Constitution regarding the expropriation of land without compensation, should be amended at a public hearing held in the Sedibeng Town Hall, Vereeniging on July 27, 2018. The consolidated court cases of the DA,…...

1+ week, 1+ hour ago   (821+ words) Leader of the Chinese delegation to United Nations, Chiao Kuan-hua (left) and Chinese permanent representative to the UN Huang Hua (right) present their credentials to UN Secretary General U Thant in New York 16 November 1971. The United Nations General Assembly adopted…...

1+ week, 8+ hour ago   (1055+ words) A woman casts her vote in Ntuzuma outside Durban on 26 June 1996 during South Africa's first local government elections in the democratic era. Every woman who votes can help create a more just, equal and democratic society. The ability to achieve…...