The World Bank plans to step up assistance to the Solomon Islands with $130 million in new funding for projects and assistance expected to be allocated to the country this month.

Advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane has spent more than R67m of her office’s budget on legal costs to defend public protector decisions taken on judicial review and on efforts to halt her impeachment.

Global trade discord, Covid-19 and the crippling of its dispute settlement mechanism had already weakened the Geneva-based body, which was twice forced to cancel the ministerial conference due to the pandemic.

Every province experienced an increase in this crime, with Gauteng recording the biggest increase from the same time last year, according to the quarterly crime statistics reported by police minister Bheki Cele.

The EFF said a national shutdown will force National Treasury and mineral resources and energy minister Gwede Mantashe to introduce immediate measures to drop fuel prices.

The murder trial of former Orlando Pirates and Bafana Bafana goalkeeper Senzo Meyiwa continues in the high court in Pretoria on Friday.

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett appealed for more open support from what he described as Israel's silent majority on Friday as he marked a year in office with his governing coalition tenuously controlling half the seats in parliament.

Attempted murder was committed against 331 children in the first three months of this year, according to the latest crime statistics.

Diagnostic companies are racing to develop tests for monkeypox, hoping to tap into a new market as governments ramp up efforts to trace the world's first major outbreak of the viral infection outside of Africa.

M-Pesa, the mobile phone-based African money transfer service owned by Kenya's Safaricom Plc, and Visa Inc launched a virtual payment card on Thursday in a bid to capture some of the continent's $40 billion-a-year subscriptions market.

A Durban couple drove to their local police station for help after they were shot several times on Friday morning.

The number of sexual offences reported to police in the first three months of the year increased by 13.7% to 13,799, an increase of 1,666 from the same time last year.

Police minister Bheki Cele is releasing the quarterly crime statistics on Friday.

From January to March 2022, 6,083 people were murdered in the country, an increase of 22.2% from the same period last year when 4,976 murders were recorded.

Cape Town Central police station was top of the list of the 30 police stations which recorded the highest number of serious crimes in the first quarter of the year.

SA National Parks has sacked its CEO Fundisile Mketeni after a disciplinary inquiry.

Scientists are flummoxed as to what is driving the current crop of monkeypox cases - mostly identified in Europe so far - given they are predominantly not linked to travel to Africa, where it is endemic.

EFF leader Julius Malema has threatened to release a video of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s burglary after his appearance in assault case at the Randburg magistrate’s court on Friday.

Former spy boss Arthur Fraser said the incident allegedly happened on February 9 2020 and claimed he had evidence including photographs, bank accounts, video footage and names to support his claims.

SA made some progress toward adding new generation to its underpowered electricity grid, signing power purchase agreements for 150 megawatts of capacity from private projects by developer Scatec ASA that were selected a year ago.

Damning evidence is expected to be heard on Friday in the Mbombela magistrate’s court when the investigating officer in the Hillary Gardee murder case takes the stand.

The use of ivermectin for the treatment and prevention of Covid-19 received a lot of public interest in 2020.

The Randburg magistrate’s court is expected to pass judgment in the assault case of EFF leader Julius Malema and MP Mbuyiseni Ndlozi on Friday.

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Ukraine updates.

The number of child abductions and killings in the country is appalling. Innovator Ntombizodwa Kepeyi has designed a tracker with features that could be key in solving missing children cases.

The Competition Commission has intervened in the plight of commuters who have found themselves at the mercy of other airlines following the voluntary suspension of Comair's Kulula and British Airway flights earlier this week.

Figures released by the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) on Thursday showed there were 2,970 new Covid-19 cases that had been identified in SA in the previous 24 hours.

Comair workers affiliated to the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) intend to picket outside the offices of Comair in Kempton Park on Friday morning.

Tourism minister Lindiwe Sisulu says the latest data from Statistics SA relating to tourist accommodation for March 2022, released on Thursday, shows that tourism continues its strong recovery.