South Africa

ADF STAFF The mystery of a Russian cargo ship docking at South Africa’s largest naval base in early December did more than spark concerns of opaque weapons trading. It has renewed focus on the still-smoldering accusations of corruption…

ADF STAFF About one-third of Africa’s 1.3 billion people are online these days, with millions more expected to join them as mobile and broadband technology expands rapidly across the continent. With so many new users joining the internet,…

ADF STAFF The COVID-19 pandemic helped to accelerate the growth of digital technology across Africa, but it also led to an explosion of internet-related crime. The arrests in September of 75 members of Nigeria’s Black Axe criminal…

ADF STAFF South African officials are vowing to dismantle terror cells that have links to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). “We will not allow our territory to be used to fund terrorism in other countries,” said Mondli…

ADF STAFF Letta Nkabinde rises before the sun and worries about the rising price of the minibus she takes each morning to her factory job in Johannesburg, South Africa. A single mother of three, Nkabinde is among the tens of millions of…

ADF STAFF As the virus that causes COVID-19 has mutated and evolved throughout the pandemic, its symptoms also have changed. Research by the Zoe Health Study, formerly known as the COVID Symptom Study, shows how variants have changed the…

ADF STAFF The idea of a COVID-19 hybrid that fuses the delta and omicron variants of COVID-19 is concerning scientists. Delta, which first emerged in the spring of 2021, attacks the lungs and has a higher mortality rate than previous…

ADF STAFF Life is seemingly returning to normal in many areas, but the COVID-19 pandemic is far from over, as reporting from the World Health Organization (WHO) suggests. In late October, the organization reported that more than…

ADF STAFF As COVID-19 case numbers declined in recent months, so did the number of people wearing masks. Encouraged by a significant drop in COVID-19 deaths, governments across the African continent followed suit, discarding their mask…

ADF STAFF The cranes that unload containers from ships at two of South Africa’s busiest ports slowed nearly to a halt in July 2021. Trucks waited in line for 14 hours or more to pick up cargo. Ships were forced to anchor outside the…