Tanzanian opposition leader and former presidential candidate of CHADEMA party Tundu Lissu. Wed 25 September 2024: Tanzania’s main opposition party has called for telecoms firm Tigo to respond to a former employee’s accusation that the company helped the government track the location of an opponent who was later targeted in a failed assassination attempt. […]
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Wed 25 September 2024: The United States is to give a further $424 million in humanitarian aid to the people of Sudan, Reuters has reported. US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield made the announcement on Wednesday. Civil war erupted in mid-April last year out of a power struggle between the Sudanese army (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support […]
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Wed 25 September 2024: An Egyptian warship has delivered a second major cache of weaponry to Somalia including anti-aircraft guns and artillery, port and military officials said on Monday, in a move likely to stoke further friction between the two countries and Ethiopia, Reuters reports. Ties between Egypt and Somalia have grown this year over their shared […]
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Wed 25 September 2024: President Cyril Ramaphosa has called on US businesses to deepen their investment ties with South Africa, highlighting the country’s renewed focus on economic recovery and structural reform. Speaking at the SA-US Interactive Business Forum in New York on Monday, the President emphasised the progress made under South Africa’s Government of National […]
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Tue 24 September 2024: Eskom’s proposed electricity tariff increases for the next three financial years, have gone out for public comment, EWN reported. The power utility wants to hike up tariffs for direct customers by around 36% next year and then by 12% and 9% in the 2027 and 2028 financial years respectively. Following an […]
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Tue 24 September 2024: A Jewish-American man has been sentenced to death in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) for alleged involvement in a failed coup attempt, raising debate and conspiracy theories regarding possible ties to Israeli spy organization Mossad, according to MEMO. Benjamin Reuben Zalman-Polun, a native of Washington DC and father of […]
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Mon 23 September 2024: Nearly 30,000 suspected mpox cases have been reported in Africa so far this year, most of them in Democratic Republic of Congo where tests have run out, the World Health Organization said on Monday. More than 800 people died of suspected mpox across the continent in that time, the U.N. health body said in its report. Congo’s central African […]
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Mon 23 September 2024: South Africa has a new law governing education. The Basic Education Laws Amendment (BELA) Act changes several aspects of how schools are managed. It was introduced to address inequalities in the school system by standardising rules on admissions, language policies, discipline, and even the operation of homeschooling. But it has sparked controversy. Education professor […]
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Mon 23 September 2024: President Cyril Ramaphosa says as the continent tackles Mpox, Africa needs to learn from the COVID-19 pandemic. “We need to ensure equitable distribution of medical countermeasures based on transparent criteria and readiness to initiate vaccination. We ask Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) to lead the consultation with […]
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Sat 21 September 2024: Relatives of jailed Tunisian opposition figures plan to file a submission to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate alleged rights violations against migrants and refugees in the country, The Guardian newspaper reports. The move planned for next week by the group, which previously petitioned The Hague-based court to probe alleged political persecution […]
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