WEATHER WATCH World Meteorological Organization scales back chance of La Niña forming this year to 60% 3 min 0 By Ed Stoddard
MAFIA STATE Africa’s abduction capital - harrowing tales of kidnapping syndicates holding SA to ransom 10 min 3 By Vincent Cruywagen and Nonkululeko Njilo
ISS TODAY OP-ED Illusion of safety shattered with Islamic State West Africa Province's attacks on civilians 5 min 0 By Malik Samuel for ISS TODAY
AFRICA CUP OF NATIONS ‘Annoyed’ Bafana boss Hugo Broos confident his side can start Afcon qualifiers perfectly 4 min 0 By Yanga Sibembe
UGANDA ATTACK OP-ED Shooting of Bobi Wine — stand up against Museveni’s bloody rule, stand up for human rights 4 min 2 By Platform for African Democrats
FOREIGN AFFAIRS SA won’t pay ‘ransom’ for release of two citizens jailed in Equatorial Guinea 3 min 23 By Peter Fabricius
BUSINESS REFLECTION After the Bell: How cellphone companies are leapfrogging banks in Africa 3 min 2 By Tim Cohen
AGE OF ACCOUNTABILITY Courts slap long sentences on Transnet infrastructure thieves 2 min 11 By Neesa Moodley
CULL-HUNTING Conservationists decry drought-hit Namibia’s plan to cull national park wild animals for meat 6 min 0 By Don Pinnock
ISS TODAY OP-ED New AU mission for Somalia to tackle al-Shabaab — old problems, fresh solutions? 4 min 0 By Meressa K Dessu, Dawit Yohannes and Tsion Belay
SMOKE SIGNAL Corporations and communities - is Big Tobacco using child and forced labour in Malawi? 4 min 3 By Ed Stoddard
AGE OF ACCOUNTABILITY Rhino poaching gangster ‘Navara’ locked up for 27 years for Kruger National Park-linked killing sprees 3 min 10 By Tony Carnie
ARBITRARY DETENTION Lamola to be summoned to Parliament to explain efforts to free SA ‘hostages’ in Equatorial Guinea 3 min 3 By Peter Fabricius
BOOTED OUT Libyans who received military training in SA deported to Benghazi as civil war looms 4 min 2 By Peter Fabricius
TROUBLED KINGDOM SADC leaders agree to King Mswati’s request to pull Eswatini from security organ’s agenda 5 min 2 By Victoria O’Regan
BUSINESS REFLECTION Loaded for Bear: Hunger in southern Africa reaches historic levels in El Niño’s wake 3 min 1 By Ed Stoddard
SOUTHERN AFRICAN DEMOCRACY OP-ED Rhetoric and reality — Checking SADC’s compliance with its own Treaty 8 min 1 By Ibbo Mandaza and Tony Reeler
GEOPOLITICS OP-ED Outside world can help turn the Sahel away from its disastrous path 7 min 2 By Greg Mills and Ray Hartley
HEALTH EMERGENCY As the mpox virus sweeps through Africa, here’s what SA is doing to curb the outbreak 3 min 2 By Lerato Mutsila
