On a misty November morning, I could hear piet-my-vrou (red chested cuckoos) calling as I walked through the hydrangea garden and into the neat white house just outside Pietermaritzburg in KwaZulu-Natal, home of evangelist Michael Cassidy, who turns 90 years old today. Cassidy, who walks with a cane
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Social media is bad for you. It’s bad for the world, for politics, for young people. In fact, it’s bad for everybody, at every level, and no platform is exempt: not Facebook, not X, not Instagram or TikTok or Bluesky. Nor is there some edifying version of social media in the offi...
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At 18 months old, Arthur Bailly was too young to understand why his family’s small 10th-floor apartment in the north central French city of Orléans baked in late June. During France’s hottest summer on record, the building’s cement construction absorbed accumulating heat. The lac...
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. HIGHLIGHTS The floods have claimed 1,453 lives; 5,644 people remain missing and 13,795 have been rescued (NDRRMA, 23 September, 19:00) 1,112 people remain in 21 displacement centres. World Food Programme recently completed a Rapid Market Functionality and Price Monitoring Asses...
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Countries: Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, Mali, Niger . The agreement, valued at USD 5,327,244.97, was signed by His Excellency Dr. Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Rabeeah, Advisor to the Royal Court and Supervisor General of KSrelief, and Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of ...
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. The escalating severity of climate events demands a fundamental shift in how we prepare and respond. As the continent transitions to proactive, predictable resilience, our tools must be of the highest calibre. Any effective disaster response mechanism must be anchored in high-q...
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Countries: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda . Event description The Bundibugyo virus disease (BVD) outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has expanded further, with Dungu Health Zone in Haut-Uélé Province, bordering South Sudan, being the latest affected, bringi...
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. This plan outlines IOM's efforts to save lives, drive solutions to displacement, and facilitate pathways for regular migration. In 2026, IOM requires $19,100,000 to support 16,000 individuals, including internally displaced persons, local populations / communities, internal and...
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. This brief presents protection considerations and priority actions to support government-led planning for the transition from Temporary Protection (TP) to other legal pathways. It does not assume one legal model. The considerations remain relevant whether the authorities facili...
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. Introduction The Climate and Environmental Crisis According to the World Meteorological Organization, the past 11 years have been the warmest on record,¹⁰ and scientific assessments are increasingly pessimistic about the likelihood of limiting global warming to 1.5°C as the win...
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. In Rakhine State, the situation remains extremely volatile and dangerous for all communities. Amid the ongoing conflict, civilians are frequently the victims of aerial bombings, artillery shelling, drone attacks, arbitrary detention, sexual and gender-based crimes, torture and ...
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. “The remains of what appears to be entire families are now being unearthed at locations that were pulverized by Israeli attacks. It is heartbreaking that the loved ones of those missing for so long are only now having their worst fears confirmed,” said the High Commissioner. “I...
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. Data collected by Insecurity Insight shows that since the military coup on 01 February 2021 and 31 August 2026, at least 1,969 incidents of violence against or obstruction of access to health care took place across Myanmar: 174 health workers were killed, 939 arrested and 51 ki...
