Sat 22 June 2024: South Africa has identified six additional laboratory-confirmed cases of Mpox, taking the total number of cases from seven to 13 since the first case was reported last month. The Department of Health reported new infections in Gauteng and the Western Cape. The death toll is still at two. The first case […]
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Sat 22 June 2024: Eskom has obtained a court judgement against the City of Johannesburg (CoJ) and City Power for the payment of their R1.073 billion debt. According to Eskom, the city and its local power utility have been defaulting on their account since October last year. “When the matter was heard on 4 June […]
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Sat 22 June 2024: The National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) and emergency services have appealed to the public to be cautious around the country’s coastlines as a spring tide is expected this weekend. “Spring tides pose a potential hazard to bathers around the coastline – especially during the outgoing tide. With schools’ vacation now in […]
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Fri 21 June 2024: At least 200 people were injured and more than 100 arrested across Kenya in nationwide protests against government tax hike plans, rights groups have said. Five groups, including Amnesty International, said late on Thursday in a joint statement that at least 105 protesters had been arrested in a violent crackdown by riot police […]
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World leaders pose for a photo during the Global Forum for Vaccine Sovereignty and Innovation at the French Foreign Ministry in Paris on June 20, 2024 Fri 21 June 2024: French President Emmanuel Macron has joined several African leaders to kick off a planned $1.1bn project to accelerate vaccine production in Africa, after the COVID-19 pandemic […]
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Renaldo Gouws / Youtube Fri 21 June 2024: South Africa’s centre-right Democratic Alliance (DA) party has suspended one of its lawmakers after an old video of the legislator using explicitly racist language resurfaced online. The suspension of the recently sworn-in member of parliament, Renaldo Gouws, on Thursday highlights the uneasy alliance between the DA and […]
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Thu 20 June 2024: Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have taken control of el-Fula, the capital of West Kordofan state, sources told Al Jazeera. The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) fought the RSF for several hours before withdrawing from the city, with the paramilitary group seizing government and military headquarters, the sources said on Thursday. […]
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Thu 20 June 2024: New research has found that several countries could meet all their energy needs from solar panel systems floating on lakes. Climate, water and energy environmental scientists R. Iestyn Woolway and Alona Armstrong analysed how much energy could be produced by floating solar panels on just 10% of the water surface of one million […]
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Wed 19 June 2024: South Africa’s seventh democratically elected President, Cyril Ramaphosa, was officially sworn in on Wednesday for a second term in office after his re-election by Parliament last Friday, Anadolu Agency reports. Chief Justice, Raymond Zondo, administered the oath of office in a colourful ceremony attended by several heads of state and government in […]
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Wed 19 June 2024: British servicemen are accused of raping hundreds of Kenyan women during decades of training in the East African country, leaving behind dozens of children. This is not the first report of British soldiers committing war crimes around the world. In 2022, a BBC inquiry found worrying evidence of SAS war crimes […]
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