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Eastern Cape EMS Rescue team searches for missing Jumba Senior secondary school students in South Africa
Hard Numbers

HARD NUMBERS: Flooding in South Africa, one lucky Canadian & More

Flooding in South Africa’s Eastern Cape, the result of snow and heavy rain, has left at least 49 people dead, including several people on a school bus that was swept away by the waters.

​South African President Cyril Ramaphosa at the NASREC conference center in Johannesburg, South Africa, on November 3, 2023.
Analysis

The real reason South Africa’s president is coming to Washington

If recent headlines are anything to go by, you’d think that South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s visit to Washington, D.C. this week is an effort to rebut US President Donald Trump’s belief that white South Africans are suffering a genocide. In reality, it’s all about trade.

​Traders work on the New York Stock Exchange floor as screens broadcast a news conference by US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell following the Fed rate announcement on May 7, 2025.
News

Hard Numbers: Federal Reserve holds interest rates steady, US Navy jets skid into the sea, The one-percent impact on the climate, Feathery “mass cannibalism” in South Africa

An armored vehicle of Nigerian Security Forces drives by newly built homes, ahead of the community re-opening ceremony which was destroyed by Boko Haram armed militants in 2015, in Ngarannam, Borno State, Nigeria, October 21, 2022.
What We're Watching

Jihadist violence surges in Nigeria as terror networks expand

There has been a rise in attacks in northeastern Nigeria by Boko Haram and a rival group called the Islamic State West Africa Province, spurring concerns that jihadists might be making a strong return in the region.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio
What We're Watching

Out of Africa? US may be planning to pull diplomats

The Trump administration may be planning the most far-reaching overhaul of the US State Department in generations. A leaked draft executive order obtained by The New York Times outlines a sweeping restructuring plan that would prioritize “transnational threat elimination,” downsize the foreign service, and hire personnel who are in “alignment with the president’s foreign policy vision.”

​Democratic Republic of Congo's former President Joseph Kabila, attends a memorial service of Sam Nujoma, who became Namibia's first democratically elected president., February 28, 2025.
What We're Watching

DRC crisis deepens as former President Kabila reenters the scene

Former Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila has announced his return to the country, vowing to halt the rapid advance of the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels who have seized significant territory in the country’s conflict-ridden east.

​African National Congress (ANC) members of parliament react after South African lawmakers passed the budget's fiscal framework in Cape Town, South Africa, April 2, 2025.
What We're Watching

Budget clash puts South African government on brink of collapse

The second largest party in South Africa’s coalition, the business-friendly Democratic Alliance, launched a legal challenge on Thursday to block a 0.5% VAT increase in the country’s new budget, raising concerns that the fragile government could collapse.