An artisanal miner walks towards a trench at a mining site in Zimbabwe [File: Zinyange Auntony/AFP] Wed 12 June 2024: Shamva, Zimbabwe – On a winter’s morning in Shamva, in Zimbabwe’s Mashonaland Central province, Brenda, a single mother of three, is on the hunt for lithium ore. The 39-year-old, who asked that only her first […]
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Tue 11 June 2024: Health Minister, Dr Joe Phaahla, will hold a media briefing on Wednesday to provide an update on the outbreak of Monkeypox disease, also known as Mpox. According to the statement, the Minister will outline plans by the department in collaboration with various stakeholders in the sector to curb further spread and […]
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Tue 11 June 2024: A military plane carrying Malawi’s vice president and nine others has gone missing and a search is under way, the president’s office has said. The plane carrying 51-year-old Vice President Saulos Chilima left the capital, Lilongwe, on Monday but failed to make its scheduled landing at Mzuzu International Airport about 370km […]
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Tue 11 June 2024: The first sitting of the National Assembly is expected to be held at 10am on Friday. This, according to a statement released by the Office of Chief Justice Raymond Zondo. South Africans cast their votes on 29 May in the country’s most contested elections since the dawn of democracy. Section 51(1) […]
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Sun 09 June 2024: Nearly 13 million people are in dire need of agricultural assistance in Ethiopia, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the UN. In a report released on Friday, the FAO warned of complex humanitarian challenges driven by climate shocks, economic instability, armed conflict and threats to the food chain. […]
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Sun 09 June 2024: South Africans do not have a deep culture of coalitions. There have been a few coalitions at provincial and municipal levels but most of these were quite unstable. The outcome of the 2024 national election up-ended 30 years of electoral dominance by the African National Congress. The party garnered only 40.18% of the vote […]
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Sun 09 June 2024: In Bredasdorp, South Africa, a series of rapes and murders has shaken the small town of 15,000 people. The Black and mixed-race community in the divided town suffers from endemic poverty, family breakdown and drug addiction. Lana O’Neill, a community worker, has taken it upon herself to provide a safe house […]
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Sat 08 June 2024: Rebel fighters associated with ISIL (ISIS) have killed at least 38 people in a nighttime assault on a village in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), according to local officials and a regional civil society leader. Armed with guns and machetes, the attackers targeted residents in Beni territory, North Kivu province, […]
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Sat 08 June 2024: After South Africa’s 29 May election, the African National Congress has lost the electoral majority it held for 30 years, but remains the party with the highest number of seats in parliament. This makes it a key partner in the formation of a coalition government. For 30 years the ANC had a comfortable […]
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Fri 07 June 2024: African National Congress (ANC) leader Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa declared that his party would pursue a national unity government, claiming that this would reflect the wishes of the electorate and help move the country forward. Following an hours-long meeting of the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) in Johannesburg, where ANC […]
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