# Google will invest more than 260-billion-rand in India over the next five years, as it announced a giant data centre and artificial intelligence base in the country. It will be the largest AI hub anywhere outside of the US. Demand for AI tools and solutions is surging among businesses and individuals in India, which […]
# Britain’s unemployment rate has edged up to the highest level in over four years, adding to the country’s economic strains ahead of the government’s annual budget. The rate reached 4.8-percent in the three months to the end of August, the highest level since the first half of 2021. That is comparison with unemployment at […]
# Die Banhine Nasionale Park in Mosambiek wat deur oorlog en stropers vernietig is, gaan tot sy volle glorie herstel word. Byna 400 diere soos sebras, wildebeeste en wildsbokke is uit die Maputo Nasionale Park in Banhine hervestig as deel van ʼn groot rehabilitasieprogram. Die park is deel van die Groter Limpopo-oorgrenspark wat Mosambiek, Suid-Afrika […]
# The General Industries Workers Union of South Africa says the European Union’s move to slap hefty tariffs on steel and iron imports will be a crushing blow for South Africa’s steel manufacturing industry. The European Commission has proposed 50-percent tariffs on all steel imports in a bid to protect its domestic steel sector. The […]
# Banhine National Park in Mozambique, once devastated by war and poaching, is being restored to its former wildlife glory. Nearly 400 animals, including zebra, wildebeest, and antelope, have been relocated from Maputo National Park to Banhine as part of a major rehabilitation effort. The park forms part of the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park linking […]
# Die Internasionale Migrasie-organisasie eis ‘n beslissende verskuiwing in globale finansieringsprioriteite en waarsku dat toenemende rampe en klimaatsgevolge rekordvlakke van ontheemding veroorsaak. In 2024 alleen is byna 46-miljoen mense deur rampe ontwortel, die hoogste aantal ooit aangeteken. Volgens die organisasie het aardbewings, oorstromings, storms, droogtes en hittegolwe die afgelope twee dekades 95-persent van die direkte […]
# Die Verenigde Nasies se Kantoor vir die Koördinering van Humanitêre Sake sê genoeg noodsaaklike voorrade kom nou Gaza binne. Dit volg nadat die eerste fase van die vredesooreenkoms ingestel is waarna die laaste 20 oorlewende Israelse gyselaars in Gaza vrygelaat is. Een-duisend-718 Palestynse aangehoudenes is uit Israel na Gaza teruggestuur. Die VN-kantoor sê hy […]
# The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs says lifesaving relief supplies are now flowing at scale into Gaza. This follows the implementation of the first phase of the peace plan, which saw the release of the last 20 living Israeli hostages held in Gaza on Monday. One-thousand-718 Palestinian detainees held in Israel […]
# The International Organisation for Migration is demanding a decisive shift in global financing priorities, warning that intensifying disasters and climate impacts are driving record levels of displacement. In 2024 alone, nearly 46-million people were displaced by disasters, the highest number ever recorded. According to the IOM, earthquakes, floods, storms, droughts, and heatwaves made up […]