Fri 19 April 2024: Government has welcomed the marginal dip of consumer price inflation from 5.6% in February to 5.3% in March as it views this as a positive sign and encouraging. According to Statistics South Africa (Stats SA), the rate has held its ground between 5% and 6% since September 2023. “The main contributors […]
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Fri 19 April 2024: Kenyan President William Ruto confirmed that military chief Francis Ogolo was among 10 senior commanders killed in a helicopter crash in the northwestern part of the country on Thursday. The helicopter crashed shortly after take-off on Thursday afternoon local time, killing Ogolla and nine other members of the military, Ruto said. […]
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Thu 18 April 2024: Volkswagen South Africa’s (VWSA) investment of R4 billion in their assembly plant in Kariega, in the Eastern Cape, has been welcomed by Trade, Industry and Competition Minister, Ebrahim Patel. The investment will introduce a new SUV model built on the Polo platform. The move also positions the facility as the sole […]
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Thu 18 April 2024: Power utility Eskom says although reaching 21 days without load shedding is a milestone, it remains committed to ultimately eliminating the rotational power outages. Eskom has kept the lights on for at least 535 hours – a feat last achieved nearly two years ago. “This is a result of sustained generation […]
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Wed 17 April 2024: The UK’s House of Commons on Wednesday, once again, rejected a House of Lords’ attempt to amend the Safety of Rwanda Bill, which allows illegal arrivals into Britain to be deported to the East African country, Anadolu Agency reports. Following a lengthy debate of the bill by all parties in the Parliament, the […]
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Thu 18 April 2024: BlueBird Aero Systems, an Israeli firm that designs and manufactures tactical unmanned aerial systems (UAS), plans to establish a drone production plant in Morocco. In a recent report by Argentinian military news website Zona Militar, Ronen Nadir, CEO of BlueBird Aero Systems, confirmed the company’s plans, indicating that the local production […]
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Wed 17 April 2024: In light of the ongoing severe drought, Zambia’s president said on Tuesday that his country urgently needs 23.5 billion kwacha ($937 million) to effectively tackle immediate life-saving and sustaining humanitarian and recovery needs, Anadolu Agency reported. “Of this amount, 1.3 billion kwacha ($51.2 million) is available, leaving a financing gap of […]
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Wed 17 April 2024: The case against nine suspects facing charges relating to the R47 million Soccer World Cup police accommodation fraud and corruption investigation has been postponed in the Durban High Court. The case was postponed to allow for pre-trial conferencing. The accused in the case include former high ranking police officials including: Former […]
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Wed 17 April 2024: Armed groups have kidnapped over 1,680 students and 60 school staff in various violent attacks on schools in Nigeria in a decade since Chibok kidnappings, UNICEF said on Monday. UNICEF Country representative in Nigeria, Cristian Munduate, also said 180 students and 14 staff were killed in school attacks during the period. […]
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Tue 16 April 2024: A health official in Tunisia’s coastal region of Sfax has said that the number of drowned migrants has exceeded the capacity of the region’s hospital mortuary, which can take 35 corpses. There are around 100 awaiting burial at the moment, but even the local cemeteries are starting to fill up. The […]
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