Thu 15 February 2024: The South African National Roads Agency (SANRAL) has advised road users that the N2 will be intermittently closed between Makhanda (formerly Grahamstown) and the Fish River Pass due to blasting operations taking place this month. Blasting operations started on Monday and will end on 26 February 2024. Motorists are notified of […]
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Wed 14 February 2024: Following decades of study and trials, a groundbreaking malaria vaccine is being pushed out across West Africa in a major effort to eradicate the disease, which is the continent’s second leading cause of infant mortality. On January 22, health workers in Cameroon began gathering babies and children below five years of […]
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Tue 13 February 2024: South Africa is to deploy at least 2 900 members of the South African National Defence Force to assist in the fight against illegal armed groups in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). President Cyril Ramaphosa ordered the deployment in line with fulfilling South Africa’s international obligation towards the Southern […]
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Tue 13 February 2024: Eskom has reduced load shedding to Stages 3 and 4 until further notice. This after the state power utility implemented Stage 5 and 6 load shedding over the past weekend. “Eskom has returned to service five generating units which will allow the emergency reserves to be adequately replenished by Tuesday morning. […]
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Mon 12 February 2024: With Valentine’s Day around the corner, the Gauteng Department of Health (GDoH) has cautioned the public against engaging in risky sexual behaviour, as this increases the transmission of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and HIV infection. Between April and December 2023, 167 109 males presented at public health facilities across the province […]
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Mon 12 February 2024: A six-year-old project to return giant tortoises to the wild in Madagascar could result in thousands of the 350kg megaherbivores re-populating the island for the first time in 600 years. The first group of Aldabra giant tortoises (Aldabrachelys gigantea) were brought in from the Seychelles in 2018, and have been reproducing […]
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Mon 12 February 2024: At least 700,000 children in Sudan are likely to suffer from the worst form of malnutrition this year, and tens of thousands could die, the United Nations children’s agency has warned. A 10-month war in Sudan between its armed forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has devastated the country’s […]
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Sun 11 February 2024: The National Consumer Commission (NCC) has urged consumers in possession of various peanut butter brands manufactured by House of Natural Butters to return them to the point of purchase. Acting Commissioner Thezi Mabuza said the manufacturer informed the Commission that the products from Pick n Pay’s No Name brand, Eden All […]
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Sun 11 February 2024: The Fowler Museum in Los Angeles, California has returned seven royal artifacts to Ghana’s Ashanti king, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, in a ceremony that marks a significant step towards the repatriation of cultural treasures looted during colonial times. The Thursday handover coincided with the king’s silver jubilee, making it a doubly […]
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Sat 10 February 2024: The international aid group Oxfam warned Thursday of an aggravating hunger crisis in Ethiopia’s Tigray region. “After two years of conflict, erratic rainfall during the planting season is threatening to plunge the Tigray region of Ethiopia into a deeper humanitarian catastrophe,” the group said in a statement. Commenting on the worsening […]
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