Sat 01 August 2026: Officials declare the outbreak the fastest spreading ever, warning the world to ‘pay much more attention’. More than 3,500 people have been infected with the Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), making it the world’s second largest outbreak on record. Confirmed cases have reached 3,532, the DRC Ministry of Communication and […]
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Sat 01 August 2026: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today:👇🏼 ◼️ Oprah Winfrey to close her school for girls in SA: At the end of the 2027 academic year, the expansive boarding school campus near Johannesburg is to be handed over to local education authorities as per the original agreement, her statement says. Since […]
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Fri 31 July 2026: More than 48,300 of the approximately 50,000 migrants who entered the Spanish enclave of Ceuta since early Thursday have returned to Morocco by Friday afternoon, Spain’s Interior Ministry said, according to EFE news agency. EFE reported that the figures, compiled as of 3.30 pm local time (1330GMT), followed an earlier ministry […]
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Fri 31 July 2026: United States officials attending a major health conference in Brazil mislabeled the African countries they showed on a map, causing an online stir and a subsequent admission of error from the Department of State. Attendees at the AIDS 2026 conference in Rio de Janeiro earlier this week took videos and screenshots […]
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Fri 31 July 2026: Zimbabwe wants to process more minerals at home, but smaller miners fear being left behind. Harare, Zimbabwe – Zimbabwe wants to move beyond being a supplier of raw minerals and build industries that process and manufacture from its own resources. But as the government tightens restrictions on unprocessed mineral exports, smaller miners […]
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Fri 31 July 2026: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today:👇🏼 ◼️ ‘No place like home’: Cabinet says Afrikaners who left South Africa for the United States (US) after claiming there was genocide remain welcome to return and will not face persecution. Ntshavheni’s announcement comes after reports emerged that hundreds of Afrikaners hoping to relocate […]
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Fri 31 July 2026: Think your friends would be interested? Share this story! Despite the staggering murders from firearms recorded across South Africa, the country’s gun violence crisis continues to raise urgent questions. A claim that 99% of firearm murders are committed using illegal weapons has placed fresh scrutiny on where these guns come from […]
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Image is for illustration purpose. Thu 30 July 2026: Minister in The Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni has announced that Cabinet has approved the extension of the validity period of driving licences for light motor vehicles and motorcycle licences from five years to 10 years. Addressing members of the media in Pretoria on Thursday on the outcomes […]
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Wed 29 July 2026: More than 20,000 people have recently been displaced in Sudan’s western Darfur region because of deteriorating security conditions and escalating violence, the UN said Tuesday. Farhan Haq, deputy spokesperson for the UN secretary-general, said humanitarian partners reported that insecurity and intercommunal violence in Darfur had forced more than 20,000 people to […]
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Representative image Wed 29 July 2026: An international team of paleontologists has identified a new dinosaur species in Zimbabwe dating back about 210 million years, a discovery that researchers say provides fresh insights into the early evolution of dinosaurs in southern Africa. The species, Musango matusadonaensis, was described Wednesday in the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology […]
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