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            <title>Failure to activate Hormuz fertiliser plan could trigger food crisis, UN official says</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A failure by the United States and Iran to agree within weeks on a UN-backed plan for moving fertiliser through the Strait of Hormuz could cause a food security crisis in parts of Asia and Africa, an official overseeing the proposed scheme said on Wednesday. The United Nations set up a taskforce in March to facilitate passage of fertilisers through the strait. It is yet to implement the mechanism it drew up, but United Nations Under-Secretary-General Jorge Moreira da Silva said this could be activated within seven to ten days of an agreement between Washington and Tehran.]]></description>
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            <title>Western Cape seeks 1 000 new exporters; steps into EU markets as US exports fade</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Western Cape government aims to add 1 000 new exporters to its current portfolio of 8 000 registered exporters by 2035. The Western Cape Export Strategy 2035 sets a number of targets, in fact. It aims to grow exports to R408-billion a year (from R136-billion in 2020), and to add more than 200 000 new jobs from increased exports nine years from now.]]></description>
            <author>Irma Venter</author>
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            <title>Diesel shortages could persist well into 2027, IEA says</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Tight diesel supplies could persist well into next year as conflicts curb output from the Middle East and Russia, while record high prices spur stock drawdowns ahead of peak winter demand, the International Energy Agency said on Wednesday. Diesel refining margins, the fuel's premium to underlying crude oil, soared to record highs of almost $95 per barrel in September, as reduced refining capacity caused by attacks on energy infrastructure linked to the Iran and Ukraine wars hit production.]]></description>
            <author>  Reuters</author>
            <category>ENERGY</category>
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            <title>UN refugee agency's funding shortfall is impacting refugees worldwide, its chief says</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Deep funding shortfalls are forcing the UN refugee agency to make painful cuts across its humanitarian operations worldwide, and there are limits to how much restructuring can offset shrinking donor support, its chief said on Monday. UNHCR has secured only $3-billion, or 35% of the $8.5-billion in funding it requires for 2026, High Commissioner Barham Salih told the agency's executive committee at a meeting in Geneva. The shortfall follows aid cuts by countries including the United States under President Donald Trump ​at a time of record global displacement. Funding for next year remains uncertain although the expected figure of around $2.68-billion could improve after a UNHCR donor pledging conference in December, Salih said. ]]></description>
            <author>  Reuters</author>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 14:05:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title>US imposes sanctions on International Criminal Court, hours after former judge wins Nobel</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[US President Donald Trump's administration imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court on Friday, hours after one of its former judges won the Nobel Peace Prize, putting Washington on a diplomatic collision course with European allies. The court denounced the move as an "assault on the rule of law and on the very foundations of the international legal order," and called on its 125 member states to take action to defend it. "The Court cannot stand alone. Its fate now rests also in the hands of the states that created it," it said in a statement. "This is not just about defending a single institution, but about safeguarding the international order grounded upon the rule of law. History will judge this moment."]]></description>
            <author>  Reuters</author>
            <category>International News</category>
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            <title>Ramaphosa congratulates Navi Pillay on ‘profound tribute’ of Nobel Prize win </title>
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            <description><![CDATA[President Cyril Ramaphosa on Friday extended his congratulations to judge Navanethem "Navi" Pillay, who won the Nobel Peace Prize "for her efforts to promote peace and international law". She is the fifth Nobel Peace Prize laureate and the eleventh South African to win a Nobel Prize. The Norwegian Nobel Committee honoured Pillay as “a person who, with exceptional courage and integrity, has led the way towards a more comprehensive legal order. This year’s laureate has been instrumental in ensuring that war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide are prosecuted." In her early career Pillay defended anti-apartheid activists, including former President Nelson Mandela before branching into international law. ]]></description>
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            <title>South African Navanethem &quot;Navi&quot; Pillay wins 2026 Nobel Peace Prize</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Navanethem "Navi" Pillay won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday "for her efforts to promote peace and international law," the Norwegian Nobel Committee said. The peace prize is the fifth Nobel awarded this week, after literature, chemistry, physics and medicine. Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado won in 2025. The peace prize is the fifth Nobel awarded this week, after literature, chemistry, physics and medicine. Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado won in 2025. The Nobel Peace Prize, worth 12-million Swedish crowns, or about $1.2-million, is due to be presented in Oslo on December 10, the anniversary of the death of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, who founded the awards in his 1895 will. The United Nations human rights office on Friday welcomed the news of Pillay's Nobel Peace Prize win, acknowledging her longstanding advocacy for human rights. ]]></description>
            <author>  Reuters</author>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 11:12:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title>IMF chief warns energy shock, growing debt and AI risks threaten global growth</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The global economy is under threat from persistently high energy prices, record public debt and risks from the AI investment boom, International Monetary Fund MD Kristalina Georgieva warned on Wednesday, urging governments to implement protective fiscal and monetary policy measures. In a speech previewing IMF and World Bank Annual Meetings next week in Bangkok, Georgieva said the world was being pulled in two directions — a negative energy supply shock from the Middle East conflicts and a positive demand shock from artificial intelligence that is also fuelling inflation. "The combined impact of these two forces is highly uneven across the world," Georgieva said, adding that the AI boom was bypassing many countries.]]></description>
            <author>  Reuters</author>
            <category>ECONOMY</category>
            <pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 10:07:00 +0200</pubDate>
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