Category: Africa

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From 1-6 September 2025, Climate Week in Addis Ababa will bring together negotiators with implementers in government and the real economy, along with key financiers including development banks, businesses, civil society, and Indigenous Peoples to help speed up climate implementation.

Organized by UN Climate Change and hosted by the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, the second Climate Week (CW2) of 2025 will focus on turning pledges into solutions that deliver tangible benefits for people – stronger economic growth, more affordable energy, better health, and rising living standards.

It will highlight how communities and partners are already pioneering scalable solutions — from community recycling projects in Kenya, to green bonds in Morocco, to digital platforms tracking ambition – with sessions structured around implementation challenges identified by countries and regional actors, while also sharing proven solutions so they can be replicated and scaled up.

“Climate Weeks are about connecting the international climate process to people’s real lives and to real economies. They will showcase proven real-world solutions so they can be replicated and scaled up, and will help lay a foundation for real progress on finance, adaptation, mitigation and a Just Transition, in Belém and beyond,” said UN Climate Change Deputy Executive Secretary Noura Hamladji.

CW2 builds on the renewed Climate Week model launched earlier this year, designed also to drive efficiencies by clustering mandated events in the formal UNFCCC process on key issues to be progressed in advance of COP30.

The Implementation Forum: A Crucial Platform

The Implementation Forum is at the core of CW2 – a new space to share and develop practical solutions across climate finance, technology, and other key sectors. With a strong focus on investment and collaboration, it will bring together diverse actors through Implementation Labs, dialogues, and roundtables to address real-world challenges.

Key thematic sessions include:

• Adaptation Finance
• Public–Private Finance Dialogue
• Accelerating Agriculture Climate Action
• Scaling Forest Climate Action
• Strengthening Public–Private Sector Collaboration
• Multilevel and Community-Driven Action

The Climate Week has also been structured to reflect and help advance the incoming COP30 Presidency’s six focus areas in its Action Agenda.

A Steppingstone for the Africa Climate Summit and COP30

The Climate Week is global in focus, but its solutions are deeply relevant to Agenda 2063 – Africa’s vision for inclusive growth, sustainability, and resilience. CW2 has been deliberately timed to take place just ahead of the Africa Climate Summit 2 (ACS2), hosted in Addis Ababa from 8-10 September 2025.

The outcomes of CW2, particularly from the Implementation Forum, will help inform the Summit, where African leadership will advance work on finance, adaptation, and resilience – shaping Africa’s voice on the road to COP30 and marking a crucial moment for the continent’s climate leadership.

Learn more about the second Climate Week (CW2) and consult the full Agenda.

– on behalf of United Nations Climate Change.

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After 500 days under siege, the city of Al Fasher in Sudan’s North Darfur has become an epicentre of child suffering, with malnutrition, disease, and violence claiming young lives daily, UNICEF warned today.

At least 600,000 people – half of them children – have been displaced from Al Fasher and surrounding camps in recent months. Inside the city, an estimated 260,000 civilians, including 130,000 children, remain trapped in desperate conditions, cut off from aid for more than 16 months.

“We are witnessing a devastating tragedy – children in Al Fasher are starving while UNICEF’s lifesaving nutrition services are being blocked,” said UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell. “Blocking humanitarian access is a grave violation of children’s rights, and the lives of children are hanging in the balance. UNICEF continues to call for immediate and full access, including through expanded pauses in the fighting to allow us to reach all children in need.  Children must be protected at all times, and they must have access to life-saving aid.”

The toll on children is catastrophic. Since the start of the siege in April 2024, more than 1,100 grave violations have been verified in Al Fasher alone, including the killing and maiming of over 1,000 children. Many were struck down in their homes, inside displacement camps, or in marketplaces. At least 23 children have been subjected to rape, gang rape, or sexual abuse, while others have been abducted, recruited, or used by armed groups. Due to limited access and verification challenges, the number of affected children is almost certainly significantly higher.

This week saw reports of another mass casualty event, as seven children were reportedly killed in an attack on Abu Shouk Internal Displacement camp, located on the outskirts of Al Fasher.

In Al Fasher, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) siege has completely cut off supply lines. Health facilities and mobile nutrition teams have been forced to suspend services as supplies have been depleted without new supplies able to enter, leaving an estimated 6,000 children with Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) without treatment. Without therapeutic food and medical care, these children face an exponentially higher risk of death.

Health and education facilities have come under continued attack, with 35 hospitals and 6 schools struck, including Al Fasher Saudi Maternal Teaching Hospital, which was hit more than ten times, killing and injuring many, including children. In January, shelling destroyed the therapeutic health centre at Abu Shouk camp, depriving thousands of malnourished children of treatment.

Meanwhile, acute malnutrition is spreading fast. More than 10,000 children in Al Fasher have been treated for SAM since January – nearly double last year’s figure. But depletion of supplies has now forced the suspension of services. Recent reports indicate at least 63 people – mostly women and children – died of malnutrition in a single week.

The situation in the wider region is also concerning; In July, Mellit locality – hosting many displaced from Al Fasher – recorded an Acute Malnutrition rate of 34.2 per cent, a record high since the onset of the war in April 2023 in Sudan.

The siege is colliding with Sudan’s worst cholera outbreak in decades. Since July 2024, more than 96,000 suspected cases and 2,400 deaths have been reported nationally, with nearly 5,000 cases and 98 deaths in Darfur alone. In overcrowded camps around Tawila, Zamzam, and Al Fasher, children weakened by hunger are now highly vulnerable to deadly waterborne disease.

UNICEF continues to call on the Government of Sudan, and all other concerned parties, to help ensure sustained, unimpeded, and safe access to reach children wherever they are in Sudan, including:

• An immediate and sustained humanitarian pause in Al Fasher and across other conflict-affected areas.
• Unimpeded humanitarian access for the delivery of therapeutic food, medicines, clean water, and other essentials.
• The re-establishment and continuity of UN and partner operations in the areas most critically affected
• Protection of civilians, including children, and civilian infrastructure in line with international humanitarian law.

– on behalf of United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).

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On Monday, 25th August, 2025, the President of the ECOWAS Commission, His Excellency Dr. Omar Alieu Touray, received the United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed at the ECOWAS Commission headquarters in Abuja. The meeting reviewed bilateral cooperation and priority challenges affecting development in West Africa.

Discussions focused on terrorism, the proliferation of weapons, insecurity, and efforts to uphold peace, security and stability within the ECOWAS region.

The two leaders also discussed the presidential elections to be held before the end of the year in Côte d’Ivoire and Guinea-Bissau, relations between ECOWAS and the Alliance of Sahel States (AES), ECOWAS missions in Guinea-Bissau and The Gambia, the transition process in Guinea, the situation at the Guinea-Sierra Leone border, as well as reforms under consideration within ECOWAS and the African Union to improve institutional performance.

H.E. Dr. Omar Alieu Touray briefed the Deputy Secretary-General on flagship ECOWAS initiatives, including the ECO common currency envisaged for 2027, implementation of the electronic component of the Interconnected System for the Management of Goods in Transit (SIGMAT) to facilitate trade and strengthen intra-regional commerce, and regional infrastructure projects such as the Abidjan-Lagos Corridor Highway and the maritime links Dakar-Praia, Praia-Dakar-Abidjan, and Praia–Banjul.

Impressed by these initiatives, Ms. Amina J. Mohammed reaffirmed the United Nations’ commitment to continue supporting ECOWAS in addressing the Community’s challenges and promoting peace, security, and stability in West Africa.

The United Nations Deputy Secretary-General was accompanied by Ms. Hadiza Elayo, Special Assistant, Mr. Leonardo Santos Simão, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), and Mr. Mohamed Fall, United Nations Resident Coordinator in Nigeria. On the ECOWAS side, H. E. Dr. Omar Alieu Touray was joined by Mr. Abdou Kolley, Chief of Staff to the President of the ECOWAS Commission, Dr Cyriaque Agnekethom, Director of Peacekeeping and Regional Security, Mr Serigne Mamadou Ka, Acting Head of the Electoral Assistance Division, and Mr. Liberor Doscof Aho, the Commission’s Communication Officer.

– on behalf of Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).

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Operation ANOUANZÉ 3 was launched in Freetown, Sierra Leone, by the ECOWAS Multinational Maritime Coordination Centre (MMCC) Zone F on Monday, 25 August 2025, under the leadership of the ECOWAS Regional Security Division, who provided the necessary coordination for this operation.

The launch ceremony was attended by representatives of ECOWAS and the Chief of Naval Staff of Sierra Leone, Commodore Lawrence K. Jabati and the Commandant of the Western Naval Command (Sierra Leone), Captain (Navy) A.K. Dumbuya.

This operation, which consists of joint maritime patrols in Zone F (Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia Coast Guard, Sierra Leone) in coordination with the West Africa Regional Maritime Security Centre (CRESMAO) CRESMAO, runs from 25 to 28 August 2025 with the technical support of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) through the Safe Seas for Africa project (funded by the EU).

Operation ANOUANZÉ 3 is part of the implementation of ECOWAS’ integrated maritime security strategy, which aims to promote regional cooperation and strengthen the capacity of member states to combat maritime threats.

– on behalf of Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).

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On August 26, Ms. Wang Li, Counsellor of the Chinese Embassy in Zambia, paid a courtesy call on Mr. Nason Banda, Director General of Drug Enforcement Commission of Zambia, and exchanged views on cooperation in combating cross-border crime.

Ms. Wang said that the Chinese government has consistently cracked down on crimes such as drug trafficking, telecommunications fraud and money laundering. The Chinese side is ready to keep close collaboration with the Zambian side to jointly combat transnational crime and safeguard the lives and property of the two peoples.

Mr. Banda spoke highly of China’s achievements in drug control and fight against cybercrime. He said that Zambia cherishes the Zambia-China all-weather friendship and is ready to carry out law enforcement cooperation and personnel exchanges with China to effectively protect the legitimate rights and interests and safety of Chinese enterprises and nationals in Zambia.

– on behalf of Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in the Republic of Zambia.

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On 25 August, Ambassador Han Jing attended the 8th Council Inaugural Ceremony of the Association of Chinese Corporation in Zambia (ACCZ) and delivered a speech. Hon. Frank Tayali, Minister of Transport and Logistics, Hon. Chipoka Mulenga, Minister of Commerce, Trade and Industry, Mr. Liao Jianfeng, newly elected Chairperson of ACCZ, Mr. Jinjun, Counsellor of Chinese Embassy, officials from the Zambian government and heads of Chinese businesses were present.

Ambassador Han expressed his congratulations to the new Council of ACCZ and said that 2025 marks the beginning of a new 60-year chapter in China-Zambia relations and the 20th anniversary of the establishment of ACCZ. It is hoped that ACCZ will seize opportunities, leverage its strengths and guide Chinese businesses in Zambia to innovate cooperation models, uphold lawful and compliant operations and actively fulfill social responsibilities, continuously advancing the high-quality development of China-Zambia cooperation under the Belt and Road Initiative.

Minister Tayali and Minister Mulenga stated that Zambia was the first country in Southern Africa to establish diplomatic ties with China. The Zambia-China relations have remained enduring and ever-growing and more fruits of mutually beneficial cooperation have been yielded. China is Zambia’s largest source of foreign investment and the Zambian government warmly welcomes more Chinese businesses to expand investments, which will help Zambia accelerate industrialization process, enhance employee skills, increase local value addition and improve transportation and logistics infrastructure, injecting strong momentum into the sustainable economic and social development of Zambia.

Ambassador Han and the Ministers jointly presented certificates to the newly elected council members. ACCZ signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Zambia Chinese Association (ZCA) and Chinese Chamber of Commerce in Zambia (CCCZ), respectively.

– on behalf of Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in the Republic of Zambia.

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• Mauritanian security forces committed serious human rights violations between 2020 and early 2025 against migrants and asylum seekers.
• The European Union and Spain, bilaterally, have continued to outsource migration management to Mauritania, despite its rights violations.
• Recent steps by the Mauritanian government may improve protection for migrants and their rights. These should continue, and the EU and Spain should ensure that their migration cooperation with Mauritania prioritizes rights and saving lives.

Mauritanian security forces committed serious human rights violations between 2020 and early 2025 against largely West and Central African migrants and asylum seekers, often when they were seeking to leave or transit the country, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. However, recent steps and commitments by the Mauritanian government may improve protection for migrants and their rights.

The 142-page report, “‘They Accused Me of Trying to Go to Europe’: Migration Control Abuses and EU Externalization in Mauritania,” documents abuses by the Mauritanian police, coast guard, navy, gendarmerie, and army during border and migration control, including torture, rape, and other violence; sexual harassment; arbitrary arrests and detention; inhumane detention conditions; racist treatment; extortion and theft; and summary and collective expulsions. The crackdowns and rights violations were exacerbated by the European Union and Spain, bilaterally, continuing to outsource migration management to Mauritania, including through years of support to Mauritania’s border and migration control authorities.

“For years, Mauritanian authorities followed an abusive migration control playbook – sadly common across North Africa – by violating the rights of African migrants from other regions,” said Lauren Seibert, refugee and migrant rights researcher at Human Rights Watch. “But Mauritania’s recent reforms show that a new approach is possible. The government should build on these efforts, scale up monitoring of security forces, and halt collective expulsions.”

Between 2020 and mid-2025, Human Rights Watch interviewed 223 people by phone and in person during visits to Mauritania, Mali, Senegal, and EU institutions in Brussels. In addition to 102 migrants and asylum seekers from Senegal, Guinea, Mali, Cameroon, Sierra Leone, and Liberia, Human Rights Watch interviewed government, United Nations, and EU officials; members of nongovernmental and civil society organizations; relatives of abuse victims; witnesses; experts; lawyers; community members; and others.

Human Rights Watch examined injuries from alleged abuse; collected photos, videos, and documents to corroborate accounts; and, in 2022 and 2023 in Mauritania, visited migrant detention centers and Dar Naïm prison, which held people on migrant smuggling charges.

Human Rights Watch documented violations by Mauritanian security forces between 2020 and 2025 against 77 migrants and asylum seekers – men, women, and children – and a Mauritanian man, who said police tortured him during migrant-smuggling-related interrogations in 2022.

Increasing numbers of migrants and asylum seekers between 2020 and 2024 attempted the “Atlantic Route” by boat from northwest Africa to Spain’s Canary Islands, with many departing from Mauritania. Some have fled conflict or persecution in their countries – including many from Mali, where armed conflict has worsened alongside government repression – while others aimed to escape poverty and find work. In 2024, a record 46,843 people arrived by boat in the Canaries. About 11,500 people arrived between January and July 2025.

Mauritania has also long attracted West and Central Africans seeking work, and it hosts about 176,000 registered asylum seekers and refugees, the majority from Mali. Some migrants seek to transit Mauritania toward Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara, Morocco, or Algeria.

In 2024, Mauritania signed a new migration partnership with the EU in exchange for €210 million in funding to reduce irregular migration, comparable to other EU deals with Tunisia and Egypt. Spain increased its bilateral support to the same end, while maintaining deployment of Spanish police and civil guard in Mauritania to assist authorities with migration control.

Dozens of people who had been held in Mauritania’s police-run migrant detention centers described inhumane conditions and treatment, including lack of food, poor sanitation, adolescent children at times detained with unrelated adults, and some beatings by guards.

Between 2020 and mid-2025, Mauritanian police expelled tens of thousands of African foreigners of multiple nationalities – generally without formal legal procedures or an opportunity to challenge their expulsion – to remote locations along the borders with Mali and Senegal, where limited aid, plus worsening insecurity in Mali’s Kayes region, has put people at risk. In the first half of 2025, Mauritania expelled over 28,000 people, the government said.

Marco Gibson, a Liberian man, said Mauritania’s military arrested him with a group of over 40 migrants near Mauritania’s northern border in December 2024, as they were leaving toward Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara: “The Mauritanian army … beat us with sticks … [and] a rubber whip…. I’ve never seen such a brutal attitude.” Following detention, police expelled him and around 20 others, including children, to Mali’s border town of Gogui, in the Nioro du Sahel area of Kayes region, he said. Days later, an Islamist armed group attacked Nioro.

Human Rights Watch has documented police use of prolonged, painful restraints, limited food and water, and other mistreatment during expulsions, as well as cases of children, asylum seekers, and people with valid legal status in Mauritania among those expelled.

The report also highlights the negative impacts of Mauritania’s interceptions and forced returns of migrant boats, supported by the EU and Spain, while search-and-rescue in the Atlantic remains insufficient, contributing to ongoing deaths.

By funding, equipping, and collaborating with Mauritanian forces for years to bolster border and migration controls without ensuring adequate human rights safeguards, the EU and Spain incentivized repression of migration and share responsibility for abuses in Mauritania, Human Rights Watch said. In some cases, Spanish forces were present during abusive arrests and detention of migrants by Mauritanian authorities. The EU also funded renovations of two former migrant detention centers, set to open this year to receive migrants intercepted or rescued at sea.

In a reply to questions from Human Rights Watch, the Mauritanian government said it “reject[s] allegations of torture, racial discrimination, or systematic violations of migrants’ rights.” It cited recent steps to improve respect for rights, including a “ban on collective expulsions” and new standard operating procedures (SOPs) adopted in May 2025 to regulate disembarkations and “management” of migrants, with strong rights and protection guarantees.

The European Commission, in its reply to Human Rights Watch, said its partnership with Mauritania was “solidly anchored” in respect for rights and cited EU support for the SOPs and other rights-focused initiatives.

“The Mauritanian government’s steps to improve respect for migrant rights are much needed,” Seibert said. “By going further to end abuses, Mauritania could potentially lead the way toward rights-respecting migration management in North Africa. For their part, the EU and Spain should ensure that their migration cooperation with Mauritania prioritizes rights and saving lives, instead of supporting security crackdowns that lead to abuses.”

Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Human Rights Watch (HRW).

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Universities are essential partners in Africa’s development, and the African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) is committed to supporting them as centres of innovation that can attract not only Bank financing but also private investment and venture capital, Vice-President for Regional Development, Integration and Business Delivery, Nnenna Nwabufo, said.

She was speaking at a symposium held Saturday 23 August, on the sidelines of the Ninth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD9). The event was organised by the University of Tokyo and co-hosted by the University of Pretoria in partnership with the African Development Bank.

The symposium, titled From Campus to Community – University Collaboration between Africa and Japan for Real-World Change, explored how academic partnerships between Africa and Asia can generate new opportunities for co-creation and progress. It took place at the University of Tokyo on Saturday, 23 August.

“As Africa’s premier development finance institution, the African Development Bank sees universities as vital allies — not only as centres of learning, but also as drivers of innovation, engines of entrepreneurship, and catalysts for societal transformation,” Nwabufo said in her keynote address.

“The Bank believes that Africa’s future depends on strong and empowered universities that go beyond producing knowledge to becoming active agents of change,” she added.

Dr Teruo Fujii, President of the University of Tokyo, and Dr Francis Petersen, Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Pretoria, also delivered keynote remarks. Dr Petersen’s message was read on his behalf by Prof Margaret Chigita-Mabugu, Dean of the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences at the University of Pretoria. Both speakers emphasised the importance of collaboration through diverse voices, innovative partnerships, and the social impact of Africa–Japan cooperation.

The audience also heard from two panels of experts who further unpacked the role of universities in fostering entrepreneurship and innovation through Africa-Asia collaboration.

Professor Frans Swanepoel, Head, Wits School of Governance, underlined the need for skills development on a continent with such a youthful population. “Education plays a determination in what you achieve as an entrepreneur,” he noted.

Hendrina Droba, Division Manager, Education, Human Capital and Employment at the African Development Bank gave examples of promoting university partnerships for youth and innovation as a core facet of the Bank’s new 10-year strategy. One of the  most successful is the Japan Africa Dream Scholarship.

Mary Yeboah Asantewaa from Ghana, a recipient of the scholarship, shared how the opportunity opened up career pathways which led to her current employment in healthcare and using innovative drone technology to fight malaria.

Putting university education and skills development top of the agenda

The African Development Bank is committed to leveraging the potential and power of universities through five areas: by integrating universities into investment programs – ensuring that higher education institutions are embedded within national development and industrialization projects supported by the Bank; financing skills and innovation ecosystems; fostering university-industry partnerships – so that universities become not only knowledge producers but also co-creators with private sector players; supporting entrepreneurship hubs and technology parks within universities; and facilitating knowledge-sharing platforms that enable universities to showcase their innovations and attract investment.

The Japan Africa Dream Scholarship (https://apo-opa.co/4oUsefa) is a capacity building program by the African Development Bank and the Government of Japan. The program, initiated in 2017, offers high-achieving African students a two-year scholarship opportunity to pursue post-graduate studies at master’s level in energy, agriculture, health, environmental sustainability and engineering. To date, 41 students have been awarded full scholarships, with 27 and 14 of them in Japanese and African partner universities respectively.

“I am glad to say that the University of Tokyo is a partner in this program,” Nwabufo said. “Partnership between African and Japanese universities is one sure way of strengthening and fostering long-term partnership and collaboration between Africa and Japan, as the African trainees of today will become the leaders of tomorrow.”

Distributed by APO Group on behalf of African Development Bank Group (AfDB).

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The Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Police, Mr Ian Cameron, has noted Statistics South Africa’s release of the Governance, Public Safety and Justice Survey 2024/25, which highlights the worrying and inherent trust deficit between the South African Police Service (SAPS) and the broader community.

“It is worrying that it is estimated that only about 43% (43,4%) of households that experienced housebreaking in the 2024/25 financial year reported some or all incidents to the police, and that about 51% (51,3%) of households that experienced home robbery reported some or all incidents to the police. This is a worrying low number of reported incidents to the police and points to an inherent trust deficit,” Mr Cameron emphasised.

While these challenges are evident in the high police-to-population ratio and the perennial lack of tools of trade, such as vehicles, the Chairperson highlighted that the SAPS should use the statistics to enhance their efforts and adopt a data-driven approach to policing.

The Chairperson also highlighted that the most common crime consistently experienced by South Africans is housebreaking/burglary/robbery. “The South African Police Service must do more to enhance visible policing, especially in hotspot areas, to ensure a feeling of safety, especially in their homes,” Mr Cameron said.

The increase in sexual offences is also a point of concern for the Chairperson. It is worrying that Stats SA reported that about 132 000 individuals experienced sexual offences over the past five years, an increase of 13.8%. In its recent visit to KwaZulu-Natal at the South African Police Service (SAPS) Forensic Science Laboratory division, the committee highlighted concerns around processing DNA samples to ensure effective prosecution of GBV cases. “The increase in cases highlights for the SAPS the need to urgently resolve the matter to ensure that perpetrators are brought to book. The only deterrence against GBV is effective prosecution,” Mr Cameron highlighted.

It is also worrying that the proportion of adults aged 16 and older who felt safe walking alone in their neighbourhoods during the day declined from 85% in 2020/21 to 80,4% in 2023/24, before edging up slightly to 81% in 2024/25, pointing to declining perceptions of safety. The Chairperson has highlighted the importance of visible policing, especially at night, where only 36,1% adults feel safe in the 2024/25 financial year.

While the Chairperson acknowledged SAPS’s shortcomings in resolving the current crime challenge, he has also called for a broader societal reflection on how, as a society, we can contribute to efforts to fight crime. “It is important that we adopt a whole-of-society approach to fight crime, either by sharing information with police or establishing functional community policing forums to enhance collaboration in the fight against crime. The police cannot do it alone,” Mr Cameron emphasised.

The committee intends to interact with Statistics South Africa and SAPS on the general crime statistics, especially the misalignment between the SAPS’s crime statistics and the perception on the ground, as revealed in the Stats SA survey.

– on behalf of Republic of South Africa: The Parliament.