Category: Africa

Mon 06 October 2025: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today: ◼️ US-blacklisted Russian cargo plane lands in South Africa, raising diplomatic tensions: A Russian cargo aircraft, which has been blacklisted by the US, and landed in Upington on Thursday was offloading transport general cargo, civilian helicopters, and acrobatic. aeroplanes, the Department of Transport confirmed […]

Sun 05 October 2025: Attackers wore military uniform and rode vehicles imitating security forces to breach a high-security prison in the capital.  All seven attackers who stormed a major prison complex in Mogadishu have been killed following an hours-long gun battle in the largest such assault on the capital in recent months, the Somali government […]

Sat 04 October 2025: Madagascar’s President Andry Rajoelina has dismissed demands for his resignation from a youth-led protest movement, labeling their actions as a coup attempt orchestrated by political opponents. On Friday, demonstrators flooded the streets of Antananarivo following a brief pause in the almost daily protests led by the “Gen Z” movement, which has […]

Sat 04 October 2025: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today:  ◼️ Mandla Mandela to be deported: Chief Mandla Mandela, the grandson of global anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela, is expected to be deported by Israel within the next few days. The activist was among those intercepted on the GSF Flotilla this week. The GSF comprises […]

Fri 03 October 2025: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today:  ◼️ Why did Nathi Mthethwa initially book the Paris hotel for two days?: “The body is in the government mortuary (Paris). They must still do the autopsy. They said they think by Monday, at the latest, Tuesday, they’ll finish their processes, and they can […]

Thu 02 October 2025: Two individuals were killed when police fired on a crowd trying to “storm” a police station in southern Morocco, state media reported, amid ongoing, occasionally violent youth-led protests across the country. Morocco’s Ministry of Interior announced on Wednesday that around 300 people, most of them members of the security forces, were […]

Thu 02 October 2025: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today:  ◼️ Ramaphosa calls for the release of South Africans abducted by Israel: President Cyril Ramaphosa has urged the Israeli government to immediately release South Africans and other nationals detained after Israeli naval forces intercepted the Global Sumud Flotilla in international waters off Gaza. https://iol.co.za/news/politics/2025-10-02-ramaphosa-calls-for-the-release-of-south-africans-abducted-by-israel/ […]