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Nicholas Haysom has died at 73. The white South African anti-apartheid activist was tapped by prisoner-turned-president Nelson Mandela to help draft the country’s new constitution that ...

The Tonse Alliance has condemned the blocking of its president Brian Mundubile from boarding an international flight, describing the incident ...

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Reporter Shirin Jaafari has covered countless conflicts across the Middle East. But now, for the first time, the neighborhoods of her childhood in Iran have become a warzone. Shirin has been covering ...

Between a reduction in freedoms in the U.S. and an uptick in organized collaboration among autocracies around the world, Freedom House’s most recent Freedom in the World report paints a stark image of ...

According to the 2026 edition of Freedom in the World, media freedom, personal expression, and due process registered the ...

Questions have arisen over the legitimacy of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament to conduct an inquiry into the sale of the Amaryllis hotel to the Public Service Pension Trust Fund ...

Explore how Western countries and donors push for abortion rights in Africa, raising concerns over manipulation and influence.