Tue 23 January 2024: A man who posed as a teenager to lure under-age girls to a chat group where child pornography was distributed and shared, is amongst three Child Online Sexual predators arrested in a joint operation by the SAPS Serial and Electronic Crime Investigations (SECI) unit. The USA Department of Homelands Security was […]
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Tue 23 January 2024: The mosquito-borne disease kills more than 600,000 people a year, mainly in Africa, according to the World Health Organization. Children under five years old account for more than 80 percent of deaths on the continent. Following a pilot phase, the RTS,S vaccine is being rolled out at scale across Africa, starting […]
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(Representational image) Tue 23 January 2024: Several flood-stricken parts of KwaZulu-Natal have been classified disaster areas by Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA) Minister, Thembi Nkadimeng. The move will enable government to access additional funding from provincial and national departments to start repairs as soon as possible. According to the SABC, the disaster areas […]
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Mon 22 January 2024: More than 13,000 people have been killed and 26,000 others injured in the ongoing conflict in Sudan since last year, the United Nations humanitarian office said Sunday, Anadolu Agency reports. Sudan has been mired by fighting between the army, led by Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, head of the country’s ruling Sovereign Council, […]
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Mon 22 January 2024: The Arab Parliament yesterday granted the President of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, the International Medal on behalf of the Arab people, after his country filed a lawsuit against Israel in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) charging the occupation state with genocide. The Medal is the highest honour presented to international […]
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Mon 22 January 2024: Amid tensions with Ethiopia over a recent maritime agreement between Addis Ababa and Somaliland, the breakaway province of Somalia, Egypt said on Sunday that it will not tolerate any risks to the security of Somalia, Anadolu Agency reported. During a news conference in Cairo with his Somali counterpart Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, […]
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Judges take their seats prior to the hearing of Israel’s defense at the International Court of Justice on Jan. 12, 2024. Dursun Aydemir/Anadolu via Getty Images Mon 22 January 2024: – Decision on South Africa’s request for provisional measures ‘could be expected in February, if not before,’ Italian lawyer Tiersisto Mariniello tells Anadolu – Decision […]
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Mon 22 January 2024: Government has noted Fitch’s decision to affirm South Africa’s longterm foreign and local currency debt ratings at ‘BB-’ and maintain the stable outlook. According to Fitch, South Africa’s credit rating is constrained by low real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth, high level of inequality, a high and rising government debt-to-GDP ratio, […]
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Sun 21 January 2024: A British oil and gas company Shell, has been in Nigeria for nearly a century, bringing not only money but also serious environmental issues, Sputnik reported. Shell has agreed to sell its Nigerian onshore subsidiary, The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC), to Renaissance, a consortium of four Nigerian exploration and […]
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Sun 21 January 2024: More than 3.4 million people have been displaced in Ethiopia because of conflicts and drought, the UN migration agency said on Friday. The International Organization for Migration’s (IOM) Ethiopia’s National Displacement report said on Friday that 64% of these people were displaced by conflict and 17% were forced to leave their […]
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