Fertiliser disruption exposes a blind spot that farm-level policy has long ignored – but Africa holds the resources to fix it, write Julia Baum and Marvellous Ngundu in ISS Today.

The death toll from a train collision near the Indonesian capital Jakarta has risen to 15 with another 88 injured, a senior minister said on Tuesday, as emergency teams completed work to rescue passengers trapped in the wreckage.

Tunisia’s President Kais Saied dismissed Energy Minister Fatma Thabet on Tuesday, amid growing controversy over renewable energy projects set to be voted on in parliament.

South Korea’s former First Lady Kim Keon Hee was sentenced on Tuesday to four years in prison for stock manipulation and bribery, after an appeals court increased her earlier sentence.

A Ghanaian military convoy protecting 140 civilians came under fire in the northern town of Binduri on Monday, resulting in the death of three of the people being escorted and one injury, the armed forces said.

How are ordinary citizens and households expected to pay when the very government that should be leading by example is not doing so? It seems there is a different set of rules for government departments and parastatals.

Carla Smith’s new comedy, CRYBABY, is about a four-year-old whose encounter with a grown-up’s media feed instantaneously transforms his body into that of an adult, his childhood shattered by the weight of obnoxious headlines, memes, advertising and conspiracy theories.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has hailed the International Panel on Inequality as the most consequential outcome of South Africa’s G20 Presidency, warning that systemic disparity is no longer just a hardship, but a structural brake on human progress.

South African opera singer Mimi Coertse died on Monday night at the age of 93.