Tue 07 May 2024: Eskom says it will approach the courts in a bid to have City Power pay its R1 billion debt to the national power utility. City Power is a company wholly owned by the City of Johannesburg which purchases, distributes and sells electricity within the city coupled with maintaining and installing electrical […]
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Mon 06 May 2024: A caesarean section is an important surgical intervention that can save the lives of mother and baby. Caesarean sections are essential in complicated labours such as prolonged or obstructed labour or if the baby is distressed. The World Health Organization says that while “every effort should be made to provide a caesarean section […]
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Mon 06 May 2024: Eskom says load shedding remains suspended due to the continued sustained improvement in generation performance and a 4 400MW reduction in unplanned outages. “Following the suspension for 39 consecutive days, load shedding remains suspended until further notice due to ongoing sustained improvements in generation performance. “Over the past few weeks, there […]
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Sun 05 May 2024: Niger’s junta recently ended a military agreement with the US. Protesters now demand the expulsion of US troops from Agadez, echoing the action taken against the French last year In just two months, flash floods have killed hundreds of people and left close to 200,000 Kenyans homeless. The military has now […]
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Sun 05 May 2024: Lubombo, Eswatini – In the heart of the Jilobi Forest, a biodiversity hotspot in Eswatini’s eastern region of Lubombo, the three chiefdoms inhabiting the territory had longstanding disputes, and tensions used to run high. But recently, an urge to preserve their shared land has caused them to retire their rivalry. “There were […]
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Sun 05 May 2024: UN’s World Food Program (WFP) on Friday sounded the alarm about the situation in Sudan, saying the African country is on the brink of becoming the “world’s largest hunger crisis”, Anadolu reports. Leni Kinzli, WFP’s spokesperson in Sudan, said at a virtual news conference that the agency is “warning that time is […]
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Sat 04 May 2024: Johannesburg, South Africa – For the first time in 30 years, South Africa’s governing party faces an electoral crisis with expectations that its support will dramatically reduce and it may lose its parliamentary majority in this month’s election. But even as the African National Congress (ANC) – which has been in power […]
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Fri 03 May 2024: Following torrential downpour of rain and flooding that ravaged East Africa, killing close to 400 people and displacing tens of thousands more, Kenya and Tanzania have been bracing for a cyclone. As per the most recent meteorological forecast, Cyclone Hidaya is gradually approaching Tanzania’s eastern coast and is predicted to make […]
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Fri 03 May 2024: Domestic rivalries and external players pollute the Sudanese information space. A year into the civil war in Sudan, the humanitarian costs have been staggering – but the news coverage has been minimal. A conflict on this scale should top the news agenda but it has been relegated to the back pages […]
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Thu 02 May 2024: An aquarium in Cape Town stretched beyond capacity with around 500 baby sea turtles that washed up on beaches due to an unusual powerful storm. Most of the small turtles are loggerheads, which are endangered and belong to the ocean. Instead, the majority of them will spend their first few months […]
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