Mon 19 February 2024: Pope Francis appealed on Sunday to Sudan’s warring factions to put an end to a 10-month conflict that has seen millions displaced and prompted warnings of famine. “I ask again the warring parties to stop this war, which causes so much damage to the people and the future of the country”, […]
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Mon 19 February 2024: Public hearings at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Israeli practices in Palestine began on Monday. The public hearings started following the UN General Assembly’s request for an advisory opinion on the legal consequences arising from policies and practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem. A […]
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Mon 19 February 2024: Eskom has announced that load shedding will oscillate between Stage 2 and no load shedding until further notice. This after the power utility faced serious challenges over the past 10 days, with load shedding reaching Stages 5 and 6 – leaving consumers without power for up to four hours per shedding […]
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Sun 18 February 2024: Academic research tends to focus on the negative aspects and sexual dangers of girls and young people viewing porn. But what do girls themselves say about growing up in a world where porn is so readily available from such a young age? It’s a question Deevia Bhana, a professor in gender […]
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Sun 18 February 2024: Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva told the African Union summit Heads of State meeting in Ethiopia on Saturday that the African continent is indispensable for the cohesion and progress of the Global South. “My friends, I would like to say that there is no Global South without the African […]
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Fri 16 February 2024: The Benadir regional administration in Somalia announced late yesterday that the Mogadishu municipality imposed a complete ban on face masks and hats in public. Administration spokesman Salah Dheere told reporters that the ban was imposed for security reasons. The administration of Banadir region has also banned the use of light weapons […]
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Fri 16 February 2024: An intensive police awareness campaign against sexual offences-related crimes has yielded positive results with a decline in the number of sexual offences crimes registered in the country. According to the quarterly crime statistics, reflecting on crimes that occurred between 01 October 2023 to 31 December 2023, sexual offences crimes, including rape […]
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Fri 16 February 2024: South Africa has begun collecting data on cancer directly from patients for the first time, to help shape national cancer policies and resourcing. A lack of extensive and detailed data has long been recognised as a barrier to improved cancer care, amid a national and Africa-wide crisis. According to the World Health Organization, […]
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Thu 15 February 2024: Lawmakers in Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland have rejected a maritime access deal with Ethiopia. In a joint statement late on Tuesday, members of both houses of Somaliland’s parliament, mainly from the coastal Awdal and Salal provinces, said the Red Sea access deal was “illegal” and aims to “harm the unity […]
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Thu 15 February 2024: Efforts to fight crime in Gauteng have received a much-needed boost through a partnership with Vuma Cam, which will allow the province to have access to an additional 6 000 CCTV cameras to keep an eye on the province’s streets. CCTV cameras are part of the Gauteng Provincial Government’s strategy to […]
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