New evidence indicates malaria vaccination is significantly reducing child deaths in Africa, with potential for a larger impact as programmes expand, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday.

The World Food Programme (WFP) has warned that Somalia is sliding toward a new hunger emergency, with nearly 6 million people facing acute food insecurity, including 2 million at emergency levels, one step from famine.

Public opinion data from the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) suggests anti-immigrant sentiment in South Africa (SA) has intensified since the COVID-19 pandemic, as recent anti-immigrant marches in the country’s Tshwane, Johannesburg, plus Durban metropolises renew concern about xenophobia in post-apartheid SA.