Thu 14 December 2023: The Road Traffic Management Corporation (RTMC) has urged motorists who will be travelling to various destinations this long weekend to check the weather forecast before embarking on their journeys and to avoid travelling at night where possible. The December period is generally characterised by summer rainfall in South Africa and motorists […]
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A dead elephant lays in the Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe. FILE PHOTO CREDIT:AP An international animal welfare and conservation group claimed Monday that El Nino-induced drought has killed at least 100 elephants in Zimbabwe’s largest game reserve, Hwange National Park. Summer rains are five weeks late due to the ongoing El Nino phenomenon, […]
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Wed 13 December 2023: Kenya has lifted visa requirement for all foreigners visiting the country. President William Ruto made the announcement on Tuesday during the East African country’s 60th Independence Day anniversary. Ruto said the move will encourage free movement of people and goods, and open up Kenya to more trade opportunities. “Beginning January 2024, […]
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Wed 13 December 2023: State-owned power utility, Eskom says the mounting debt by the City of Tshwane (CoT) and the City of Ekurhuleni (CoE) for bulk electricity supply is posing a “significant challenge”. According to Eskom, the City of Tshwane owes it some R4.2 billion while Ekurhuleni is currently in arrears of some R146 million. […]
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Tue 12 December 2023: The United Nations mission in Mali has officially ended a 10-year deployment in the country, its spokesperson said, in a pullout ordered by Mali’s military government. The mission, known as the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), lowered the UN flag in its headquarters in the capital Bamako, its […]
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Tue 12 December 2023: Natural disasters affected a total of 407.5 million people in Africa between 2000 and 2022 as climate-induced catastrophic events led to severe humanitarian crises across the continent, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) has said. Amid the growing impact of climate-induced incidents across the African continent, such events have […]
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Tue 12 December 2023: The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Interpol National Central Bureau (NCB) for South Africa that will allow the unit to have direct access to Interpol’s information system. “The MoU will strengthen the SIU’s investigating tools of trade and access to data systems to […]
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Mon 11 December 2023: Although South Africa’s Tuberculosis (TB) infection incidence is dropping, government is disturbed about the death rate among patients. This is according to the Deputy Health Minister, Dr Sibongiseni Dhlomo, who was delivering a keynote address on the opening day of the BRICS TB Research Network Innovation Summit in Durban. “TB remains […]
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Mon 11 December 2023: Since the current civil war began in mid-April, more than 3,000 humanitarian groups in Sudan have entirely halted operations, official SUNA news agency cited Sudan’s Humanitarian Aid Commission as saying on Friday. “These include around 2,900 national organizations, 110 foreign organizations and more than 10 UN humanitarian agencies and regional organizations,” […]
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Sun 10 December 2023: Harare, Zimbabwe – When Obert Manduna was elected member of parliament for Nketa constituency in Zimbabwe’s second biggest city of Bulawayo in August, the former humanitarian worker was elated. “It has always been my passion to work with the downtrodden, vulnerable, and disadvantaged members of the society,” Manduna told Al Jazeera. “So […]
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