South Africa

South Africa will classify gender-based violence as a national disaster, a decision that followed an online campaign and national protests by thousands of women.

Several thousand women are likely to die from complications during pregnancy and childbirth as a result of Trump’s foreign aid freeze.

Thousands of South African women took to the streets of Cape Town on Thursday to protest against increasing levels of gender-based violence.

Nelson Mandela, the first black president of South Africa, has died at the age of 95.