1.South Afrika – Soweto 

The 2026 National Youth Day commemoration is held under the theme “RESET@50 – The Future Calls”, with the slogan “Our National Commitment to the Future, for Freedom Lives in Every Generation”, and is further anchored by the focus “Mapping the Barriers: Auditing Access for Economic Inclusion”. 

From FNB Open space to Soweto Orlando West

"The theme young people have chosen is 'Finishing Off What Was Started'."

As part of the commemorations today, participants will retrace the historic route, marching from the corner of Moema and Vilakazi streets, where police first opened fire on students, past the Hector Pieterson Memorial, and ending at Orlando Stadium.

2.Somaliland- Israel

Somaliland president visits Jerusalem in defiance of Mogadishu

Israeli President Isaac Herzog welcomed his counterpart from Somalia's breakaway region of Somaliland, Abdirahman Mohamed Abdillahi in Jerusalem 

"Both our countries acted with courage and realism. Israel recognised Somaliland as an independent state, which has been a reality on the ground for several decades," Herzog said during a joint news conference.

3.Sudan – Khartoum 

 Drone strikes killed more than 1,000 civilians in war-torn Sudan in the first five months of 2026, a senior United Nations official said Monday as the unmanned aerial vehicles turn the conflict deadlier for civilians.

U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said his office has documented a “sharp increase” in drone attacks as well as rape and sexual violence in the Sudan war, now in its fourth year.

4. In our historical archives, it was on this day, 16 June 1991, when the then Organisation of Afrikan Unity, now the African Union, commemorated June 16 as the Day of the Afrikan Child and to honour those who had laid down their lives for the cause of freedom in South Africa.

Haiti's worsening security crisis has taken another alarming turn after a senior defence ministry and police official was reportedly abducted in Port-au-Prince.

Diplomatic tensions between India and the United States are escalating after three Indian sailors were killed during a US military operation in the Strait of Hormuz.

Guest: Dr Naledi Modise - Lecturer of Political Science and International Relations at the North West University

Last year, Dr Alulutho Mazwi, an intern in the paediatrics department at Umlazi’s Prince Mshiyeni Memorial Hospital was found. He suffered from diabetes and died a week after allegedly being made to work despite reporting that he was unwell. Earlier this year, it was revealed that an investigation was conducted by the Office of the Health Ombudsman

Guest: Dr Aaron Motsoaledi - National Health Minister

Guest: Lehanda Rheeder - Spokesperson for Pit Bull Federation of South Africa  

Guest: Sizwe Kupelo - Patron & Founder, Sizwe Kupelo Foundation 

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The African Transformation Movement has formally opposed President Cyril Ramaphosa’s urgent interdict application and is ready to defend the impeachment process.

Guest: Zama Ntshona - Spokesperson of the African Transformation Movement

Last week, we spoke to KZN Premier Thami Ntuli about roundtable discussions he was hosting as part of dealing with illegal immigrants in his province and the protest action that has been taking place there. He also met with the Pakistani High Commissioner to South Africa to discuss fears of a June 30th deadline given by the organisers of the March on March movement.

Guest: Thami Ntuli - KZN Premier 

President Cyril Ramaphosa has approached the courts in an urgent bid to halt Parliament’s impeachment process linked to the Phala Phala scandal, arguing that the process should not continue while he challenges the Section 89 panel report that forms its basis. Can the President stop the impeachment process?

Guest: Bophelo Seleke - Independent Legal Analyst

1.DRC- Kinshasa  

Rally against the constitution change plan turns violent

Two opposition figures in the DR Congo were injured on Friday at a rally against government plans to change the constitution, broken up by police after clashes with pro-government supporters.

In power since 2019, President Felix Tshisekedi, 62, is approaching the end of his second, and, under the current constitution, final five-year mandate in 2028.

He recently declared, however, that he would agree to lead the conflict-plagued country for a third term "if the people wish it" after a referendum on constitutional reform.

Martin Fayulu, who came second to Tshisekedi in the 2018 presidential election and third in 2023, and fellow opposition figure Prince Epenge were slightly injured in the clashes, marked by stone throwing.

1. Nigeria – Lagos

Angry Nigerians rally against poverty, insecurity on Democracy Day

Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in Nigeria’s commercial capital last week Friday to mark Democracy Day, utilising the public anniversary to protest rising living costs and crumbling security.

Protesters assembled in Lagos, carrying placards and chanting slogans that called on the government to address economic hardship, unemployment and what they described as a failure of the country’s democratic system to deliver meaningful improvement to its citizens.

Democracy Day honours the June 12, 1993, presidential election, widely regarded as the country’s freest and fairest vote and won by the late pro-democracy figure Moshood Abiola.

3.    Germany – The Gambia 

 Germany Deports Over 1,300 Gambians in Eight Years

Germany has deported 1,369 Gambians to The Gambia since 2018, with removals increasing sharply over the past three years as German authorities intensify efforts to enforce immigration decisions.

The figures were presented by Dr Judith Altrogge of the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) during the Migration Evidence Forum organised by the Centre for Research and Policy Development (CPRD) and GK partners.

The data shows that 41 charter deportation flights landed in The Gambia between 2018 and 2025, carrying 578 deportees. Hundreds of others were returned on commercial flights, suggesting that roughly half of all deportations were conducted through regular airlines.

4.    In our historical archives, it was on this day, 15 June 1960, when the Second Conference of Independent African States held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, a resolution calling for sanctions against the then apartheid South Africa was passed. 

The history of international pressure for sanctions against South Africa dates to December 1958, when the All-African Peoples' Conference in Accra, Ghana, called on all countries to impose economic sanctions against the Union of South Africa in protest against apartheid.

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