Researchers have voiced concerns after South Africa updated its health-research ethics guidelines to include a new section on heritable (or germline) human genome editing. Scientists say this could ...

PRETORIA, March 6 (Reuters) - An influential South African government agency recommended the country phase out coal-fired power stations on Thursday as it published a 10-year study which found that ...

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Françoise Baylis is affiliated with the International Science Council, the UNESCO World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST) and the Royal Society of Canada. Update ...

The abrupt, politically charged pause in funding from the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) sent shockwaves through the country’s health sector, forcing a rapid re-evaluation of its ...

In a decision welcomed by advocacy groups and researchers, South Africa’s Cabinet has approved a ban on the import of Terbufos, a highly toxic pesticide linked to the deaths of six children in a South ...

Last Friday, South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa signed a law making, among other provisions, one year of pre-primary education compulsory, further strengthening the right to education for South ...

(Johannesburg, March 3, 2025) – South Africa and other countries that have not yet done so should endorse a widely adopted political commitment aimed at protecting civilians from the bombing and ...

JOHANNESBURG, May 22 (Reuters) - Nelson Mandela's African National Congress promised South Africans "A Better Life For All" when it swept to power in the country's first democratic election in 1994, ...

Today’s Week Ahead comes to you from sunny Atlanta, where the African Studies Association (ASA) is holding its flagship annual gathering of Africanist scholars from around the world. Known as the ...