Tue 19 September 2023: The Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) announced on Monday the appointment a new service provider for foreign-qualified medical doctors to sit for their board exams. This comes after South African foreign-qualified doctors encountered numerous delays due to administrative challenges. Earlier this month, a group of jobless doctors who studied […]
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Tue 19 September 2023: The United Nations said on Tuesday countries could consider financial reparations among the measures to compensate for the enslavement of people of African descent, though legal claims are complicated by the time passed and the difficulty in identifying perpetrators and victims. A report of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said no country […]
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Nigeran President Bola Ahmed Tinubu (L) meets UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan (R) during his official visit in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates on September 11, 2023 Mon 18 September 2023: Contradicting claims made by the Nigerian government earlier this week, the UAE has insisted that no changes have been made to its […]
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Mon 18 September 2023: The South African Weather Service (SAWS) has issued a severe weather alert for damaging waves between Plettenberg Bay and Richards Bay on Monday. “The damaging waves are expected to result in localised disruptions to beachfront activities, localised disruption of small harbours and/or ports, difficulty in navigation of vessels at sea, and […]
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Sun 17 September 2023: After two years in power, President Samia Suluhu Hassan has consolidated her political base, opened up the media space and increased the number of women in public appointments. But Tanzania is not yet out of the woods. Years of failed accountability created the conditions for the rise of authoritarianism and the worrying absence […]
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Sun 17 September 2023: An Islamic scholar turned freedom fighter, Omar Al-Mukhtar is best known for leading an armed revolution and guerrilla campaign against Italian colonisers for the last two decades of his life until his capture and subsequent execution 90 years ago. He remains a Libyan national hero and an inspirational symbol of resistance […]
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Sun 17 September 2023: At least 11,300 people have died and another 10,100 are missing from the coastal city of Derna one week after Storm Daniel hit northeastern Libya, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported on Saturday. An estimated 170 people have been killed as a result of the flooding elsewhere […]
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Sun 17 September 2023: The three Sahel countries have agreed to cooperate in defense against potential threats from armed insurrection or foreign aggression. Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger have signed the agreement. The Alliance of Sahel States charter, which was signed on Saturday, obligates the signatories to aid one another, including militarily, in the event […]
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Sat 16 September 2023: They arrived in rapid succession, a flotilla of rickety boats, carrying desperate migrants from the Tunisian coast across the Mediterranean Sea. Within three days, their numbers — nearly 7,000 by late Wednesday — had topped the total population of their destination, the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa. The island – whose […]
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Fri 15 September 2023: Under Niger’s new military administration, France’s ambassador has effectively been “taken hostage,” said President Emmanuel Macron, reported French media on Friday evening. “In Niger, as I speak to you, we have an ambassador and diplomatic members who are literally taken hostage at the French Embassy,” Emmanuel Macron said during a visit […]
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