Thu 07 November 2024: The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) has encouraged citizens to always report any suspected side effects they may experience from taking medicines, vaccines or using medical devices, to help make medicines safer for everyone. While humanity benefits greatly from medicines in the treatment of illness and management of […]
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Wed 06 November 2024: Mogadishu and Washington yesterday agreed to exempt Somalia from paying $1 billion in debt. According to the official news agency Sonna, the Somali Minister of Finance Bihi Egeh signed an agreement with the US Ambassador Richard Riley in the capital, Mogadishu. The agency stated that “a bilateral agreement forgives Somalia’s $1.14 billion […]
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Wed 06 November 2024: The number of cholera infection cases in Sudan has climbed to 30,880, while dengue fever cases reached 6,011, Sudan’s Health Ministry said on Tuesday. “The cholera epidemiological situation report revealed the registration of 138 new cases, including two deaths, bringing the total to 30,880 cases, including 887 deaths,” the ministry said […]
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Wed 06 November 2024: South Africa – Amid recent foodborne illness outbreaks across South Africa, parents and guardians are urged to take extra precautions to protect their children’s health. These outbreaks have resulted in the tragic loss of young lives and numerous hospitalisations in Gauteng, Mpumalanga, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, and the Eastern Cape, impacting families and […]
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Tue 05 November 2024: An independent investigative report on incidents at Pretoria High School for Girls has recommended that the principal and deputy principal responsible be charged with misconduct. The Gauteng MEC for Education, Matome Chiloane, on Monday released the independent investigative report which probed allegations of a culture of racism at the school and […]
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Tue 05 November 2024: Nigeria’s president has directed that all minors detained during protests against the rising cost of living in August be freed and treason charges against them dropped, Information Minister Mohammed Idris has said. “The president has directed that these children, these minors, be released immediately,” Idris said on Monday. At least 76 […]
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Mon 04 November 2024: Salma Abdallah was recuperating from a caesarean section and tending to her one-month old baby when soldiers from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) barged into her home in Sudan’s eastern Al-Jazira state late last month. They accused her of loyalty to the army and its allies, their rivals in an 18-month war. […]
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Mon 04 November 2024: A recent poll by the Social Research Foundation, a think thank, found that 60% of South Africans thought the government of national unity was working well. It also reported that support for the unity government’s anchor political parties, the African National Congress (ANC) and the Democratic Alliance (DA), had risen since 29 May 2024 when elections […]
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Mon 04 November 2024: Britain’s Prince William landed in Cape Town on Monday for a four-day trip to South Africa centred on his annual Earthshot Prize for environmental innovators. The heir to the British throne will attend a global wildlife summit and meet with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa during the trip, which is his first to South Africa since 2010. […]
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Mon 04 November 2024: Due to load shedding being suspended for over seven months, Eskom’s diesel savings have reached R13.7 billion year-on-year. In a statement on Friday, Eskom said load shedding has remained suspended for over seven months (219 consecutive days) since 26 March 2024. “Investments in the Generation Recovery Plan have been instrumental in […]
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