Wed 27 March 2024: The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) has decided to hold the repo rate unchanged at 8.25%. Addressing a media briefing on Wednesday, SARB Governor Lesetja Kganyago said the decision was unanimous. “In assessing this forecast, the MPC noted a range of risks. Inflation expectations have moderated […]
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Wed 27 March 2024: Kenyan authorities on Tuesday delivered their relatives the seven Shakahola cult members’ bodies, which had been positively identified by DNA testing, so they could be buried. One of the individuals receiving the bodies of their family members, Titus Ngonyo, became overwhelmed with grief. He conveyed his deep sorrow to reporters during […]
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Wed 27 March 2024: Motorists have been warned against violating traffic laws this Easter weekend as law enforcement officials intensify their operations to ensure the country’s roads are safe. “Roadblocks will be staged on all major routes and within residential areas to address deviant behaviours by those who think that long weekends are a license […]
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Mon 25 March 2024: Senegal’s ruling coalition candidate Amadou Ba congratulates his rival Bassirou Diomaye Faye on winning the presidential election in the first round, the ruling coalition said Monday. Results trickling in since polls closed on Sunday evening in the first round of a delayed presidential election suggested Faye, 44, may have clinched an […]
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Mon 25 March 2024: President Cyril Ramaphosa has acknowledged that the relationship between South Africa and the United States has recently received a great deal of attention due to the Israel-Palestine conflict. In his weekly newsletter, the President assured citizens that strengthening ties between the two countries was among the important issues discussed by the […]
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Mon 25 March 2024: UN experts on Friday expressed alarm about increasing reports of trafficking in persons, particularly women and girls, for purposes of sexual exploitation, as well as child recruitment in hostilities in Sudan. As the humanitarian crisis already caused the mass displacement of over 9 million people, the experts said in a statement […]
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Sun 24 March 2024: More than 130 students abducted by gunmen from a school in Nigeria earlier this month have been released “unharmed” days before a ransom deadline, say officials. Government spokesman Abdulaziz Abdulaziz told Al Jazeera on Sunday that it “took a lot of backchannel engagement” to release the students abducted on March 7 […]
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Sun 24 March 2024: Voters in Senegal are casting ballots to elect their next president among a crowded field of 17 candidates. The delayed polls take place following a period of uncertainty after President Macky Sall’s unsuccessful effort to delay the election. There are no clear frontrunners, but former Prime Minister Amadou Ba from the […]
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South Africa Police Service Fri 22 March 2024: Members of the South African Police Service’s border policing unit have arrested a 43-year-old truck driver from the Kingdom of Eswatini for allegedly attempting to smuggle dagga into South Africa. In a statement on Friday, the SAPS said the male suspect was apprehended at the Oshoek Port […]
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Fri 22 March 2024: In early March 2024 the residents of Johannesburg, South Africa’s largest city and the economic capital of the country, were hit by extended cuts in water supplies. This was a new low after months of continuous deterioration. Professor in the School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand […]
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