Atrocities in Sudan’s Darfur region are spreading rapidly from town to town in what the International Criminal Court (ICC) describes as an organised campaign of mass violence amounting to war crimes and crimes against humanity.

As world leaders gather for the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, senior United Nations (UN) agencies are warning that escalating hunger and displacement are no longer solely humanitarian crises, but growing threats to global economic stability.

South Africa’s (SA) Gauteng province’s Education Member of the Executive Council, Matome Chiloane says preliminary investigations indicate that the taxi driver involved in the horrific scholar transport crash that took the lives of 14 learners on Monday was attempting to overtake multiple vehicles when the collision occurred. Fourteen learners died in the crash, while four others remain in critical condition.