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While it is true that “too many young people struggle to find their first job” (SONA), imposing the primary responsibility on young people to ‘do better’, by completing well-meaning programmes designed by adults who know what is best, absolves institutions of the responsibility to re-think their assumptions, approaches, and programming to more effectively address structural challenges. (Oupa Nkosi)

“Inactive” youth, Sona’s panacea of digital skills and missed creative opportunities

If a commitment to youth-led initiative is to be taken seriously, it is imperative to include youth in decision making on where to direct investment, how to design curricula for skills training, which job markets to prioritise, including those that may not yet exist.

  • Eyaaz
7 min read
The Office of Botswana’s Ambassador to the United Nations recently announced that Botswana has nominated renowned jurist and scholar, Justice Oagile Bethuel Key Dingake, to run for Judge of the International Court of Justice

Botswana nominates its finest jurist as judge of International Court of Justice

The Office of Botswana’s Ambassador to the United Nations recently announced that Botswana has nominated renowned jurist and scholar, Justice Oagile Bethuel Key Dingake, to run for Judge of the International Court of Justice

  • Eyaaz
4 min read
King Mohammed VI

Morocco welcomes UN support for Western Sahara talks

Despite the positive developments, the King assured that his country remains committed to finding a solution where there are no winners or losers – a solution that preserves the dignity of all parties

  • Eyaaz
3 min read
Smoke rises as clashes continue between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), in Khartoum, Sudan on May 1, 2023. (Photo by Ahmed Satti/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Rampage and ransom as heavyweight in Sudan’s RSF defects

A fuller picture of the Rapid Support Forces massacres in Gezira, committed under the cover of a communications blackout, is emerging from survivors and victims’ families

  • Eyaaz
3 min read
Smoke rises as clashes in Khartoum between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces reached boiling point in 2023.(Photo by Mahmoud Hjaj/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

‘Rebels’ should give up hope of ruling Sudan, says RSF adviser

US peace talks to end the 16-month war in the country have yielded no concrete results

  • Umamah Bakharia
7 min read
Fleeing for their lives: Tayyib Mahmoud and his family from Al Fashir in Darfur in 2021 going on a bus that will take them to safety in Egypt.

Sudan civil war fuels sexual violence and humanitarian crisis

Both sides are accused of war crimes, and millions of people have been displaced and face famine in 14 areas of civil war in the country

  • Umamah Bakharia
7 min read
Dire situation: An armoured vehicle in Port-au-Prince on 2 April. The Haitian capital has become a battlefield between the forces of law and order and armed gangs. Photo: Getty Images

How Kenyan standby force is preparing for Haiti intervention

Oscar Gakuo Mwangi, who studies radicalisation and counter-terrorism in Kenya, looks at the country’s preparedness to take on Haiti’s urban gangs

  • Umamah Bakharia
5 min read
Brainchild of Tshepo Mohlala, who started the brand nine years ago.

Denim designer reaps what he sews

Tshepo Mohlala is crafting a legacy, one stitch at a time, with his brand of jeans

  • Eyaaz
7 min read
United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) Executive Director Inger Andersen at the opening of Unea-6 in Nairobi, Kenya. (UNEP/K.Worth)

Political leadership and will is needed to fight climate crisis, says Unep head

Speaking to the Mail & Guardian at a conference on climate change, Inger Andersen says people need to demand their leaders put effective measures in place

  • Umamah Bakharia
2 min read
Leila Benali, president of Unea-6 and minister of energy transition and sustainable development for Morocco. (Hollie Adams/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Multilateral agreements can help tackle climate change, says UN

Treaties and diplomacy are key to curbing climate turmoil

  • Umamah Bakharia
3 min read
South African higher academic institutions have called for a ceasefire and the promotion of education in Palestine-Israel

The UN security council caves to US pressure to prevent a ceasefire

This marks as a win for the US who didn’t have to use its veto again

  • Eyaaz
5 min read
Photo: Getty Images

We are nowhere where we need to be in fighting climate change

As the 28th UN climate change conference of parties, COP28, looms, there is much more work to do

  • Umamah Bakharia
5 min read
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

UN must reform to represent interests of Global South

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  • Des Erasmus
1 min read