Court Decision on Zuma’s Fate Leaves South Africans Nervous

South Africa’s high court has ordered the former president Jacob Zuma to return to jail after setting aside a decision to release him on medical parole. Zuma, 79, is serving a 15-month sentence for contempt of court after he ignored instructions to participate in a corruption inquiry. He began medical parole in September, and in […]
What’s Behind Africans’ Reluctance to Get Jabbed?

In 2019, the World Health Organization identified vaccine hesitancy as one of the 10 greatest threats to global health. It is very worrying because it poses significant risks not only to the hesitant individual but also to the wider community. Vaccine hesitancy has resulted in outbreaks of vaccine preventable diseases. For example, there were measles […]

