Fri 07 June 2024: Algeria wants to lure more visitors to the cultural and scenic treasures of Africa’s largest country, shedding its status as a tourism backwater and expanding a sector outshone by competitors in neighbouring Morocco and Tunisia, Reuters has reported. The giant north African country offers Roman and Islamic sites, beaches and mountains just an […]
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Thu 06 June 2024: Nigeria’s Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, has announced that the UAE plans to lift a travel ban on Nigerian citizens imposed in 2022. According to Punch, Keyamo made the announcement during a welcome dinner for delegates at the International Air Transport Association (IATA) 80th Annual General Meeting and World Air Transport […]
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Thu 06 June 2024: The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) says it has found no traces of diethylene glycol in the Benylin paediatric cough syrup. This comes after SAHPRA recalled two batches of the cough syrup in April after the Nigerian National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) raised concerns […]
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Thu 06 June 2024: The Department of Health is appealing to citizens who have been in close contact with known or suspected patients of monkeypox disease, also known as Mpox, to go to their nearest health facility. This is after the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) detected two more cases of Mpox this week […]
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Wed 05 June 2024: The Commissioner of the Border Management Authority (BMA), Dr Michael Masiapato, has issued a stern warning to travellers, who are in contravention of the Immigration Act of South Africa. Last night, during a routine intelligence-driven operation, 25 travellers were intercepted and deported by the BMA Immigration officials at OR Tambo International […]
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Wed 05 June 2024: South African retailer Woolworths said it expected annual earnings to be more than 20% lower than the prior year, as consumers cut down on discretionary spending, sending its shares to their lowest level in nearly two years on Thursday. At 1523 GMT, shares in the upmarket food, fashion and beauty products […]
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Wed 05 June 2024: There is compelling evidence that Ethiopian forces committed genocidal acts during the Tigray war, a new report has concluded. Issued on Tuesday by the United States-based New Lines Institute, the 120-page draft quotes multiple, widespread and credible independent reports that Ethiopian forces and their allies carried out “acts constituting the crime […]
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Wed 05 June 2024: Consumers are expected to feel some relief this month as the price of all grades of fuel are expected to fall. This was announced by the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) in a statement on Tuesday. The decreases are as follows: Petrol 93 and 95 (ULP and LRP): R1,24 […]
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Tue 04 June 2024: Britain intends to begin deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda on 24 July, a government lawyer said on Monday, although the hotly contested scheme is dependent on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Party winning the upcoming General Election, Reuters has reported. Sending asylum seekers to Rwanda if they have arrived in Britain without permission […]
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Tue 04 June 2024: The governing party has a range of potential partners. But early negotiations suggest that no deal would be easy. Johannesburg, South Africa — After suffering a stunning blow in last week’s election, South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) has begun closed-door negotiations with its political opponents to begin talks about forming […]
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