Tue 10 September 2024: Vehicle owners are increasingly abandoning the long queues at vehicle licensing centres and opting to renew their vehicle licences online to save time. An analysis of the Road Traffic Management Corporation (RTMC) online platform, online.natis, shows that more than 2.5 million vehicle owners have opted for the convenience of the online […]
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Tue 10 September 2024: Dickson Ndiema Marangach, the former boyfriend of Ugandan marathon runner Rebecca Cheptegei, has died from burns sustained during the horrific attack in which he is accused of setting her on fire. The Kenyan hospital treating him confirmed his death on Monday evening. Marangach reportedly suffered 30% burns after dousing Cheptegei with […]
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Tue 10 September 2024: Israel is actively lobbying members of the US Congress to exert pressure on South Africa to withdraw its case against Israel from the International Court of Justice (ICJ), according to recent reports from Axios and Israeli media Walla. Israel’s foreign ministry has dispatched a classified cable instructing its diplomats in the US to […]
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Tue 10 September 2024: The devastating conflict between Sudan’s army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group has claimed over 20,000 lives since it erupted in April 2023, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. During a two-day visit to Sudan, Ghebreyesus highlighted the staggering toll at a press conference […]
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Mon 09 September 2024: The North West had the fifth highest HIV prevalence rate in the country at 12.3% in 2022, with HIV prevalence in the province at 20.8% among those aged 25 to 49 years old overall. In addition, a large number of people living with HIV (PLHIV) in the province were women. This […]
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Mon 09 September 2024: National Commissioner of the South African Police Service (SAPS), General Fannie Masemola, has warned would be criminals that attacks on police officials will not be tolerated. This after an attack on a member of the National Intervention Unit (NIU) at the base of the unit in Mthatha in the Eastern Cape […]
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Sun 08 September 2024: Bunkering in South Africa’s Algoa Bay has dramatically cut the number of birds in the former world’s largest colony by 90 percent The first time I visited St Croix island, in 2017, it was home to about 6,000 breeding pairs of African penguins – 35 percent of the global population of […]
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Voting in Algerian presidential election ends as Tebboune eyes re-election Sun 08 September 2024: Vote count began on Saturday evening as polling for the snap presidential election in Algeria ended at 1900GMT. The polling stations have closed, and the counting of votes has begun immediately in the presence of the media and representatives of the […]
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Democratic Republic of Congo has received its first shipment of Mpox vaccines, with nearly 100,000 doses now in hand. Sat 07 September 2024: The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday jointly launched a continental plan to scale up the response to the ongoing […]
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Anxious parents gather outside Hillside Endarasha Primary Academy in Nyeri, Kenya. Fri 06 September 2024: The death toll in a fire at central Kenyan school early Friday morning has risen to 17, authorities confirmed. The blaze broke out at Hillside Endarasha Academy in Nyeri, about 150 kilometers (93 miles) north of Nairobi, engulfing a […]
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