Fri 15 September 2023: Many of the casualties from the devastating floods in Libya this week could have been avoided if the divided country had a functional weather service able to issue warnings, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Speaking to reporters in Geneva on Thursday, WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas said Libya’s main challenge in managing […]
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Thu 14 September 2023: On Thursday, Nigeria had a statewide power outage due to technical issues in the country’s electrical grid, the West African nation’s electricity distribution companies reported. Multiple grid failures have occurred in recent years, and the most recent one occurred on Thursday, affecting all 36 of Nigeria’s states as well as the […]
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Ishmail Haffejee and Sara Lall with a photograph of their brother, Hoosen Haffejee, who died while in police detention in 1977. The Pietermaritzburg High Court overturned the 1978 inquest finding on Dr Hoosen Mia Haffejee’s death, ruling it wasn’t self-inflicted. Picture: Bongani Mbatha/African News Agency (ANA) Archives Thu 14 September 2023: The Pietermaritzburg High Court […]
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Thu 14 September 2023: The City of Tshwane has advised residents that it has regrettably withdrawn, with immediate affect, its bus service and A Re Yeng operations. The decision follows several incidents of organised violence and destruction of property in the city on Wednesday. “A Tshwane bakkie, water tanker, three trucks from Water and Sanitation […]
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Thu 14 September 2023: The death toll from devastating floods that struck eastern Libya could reach 20,000 in the city of Derna alone, the mayor said. “We expect a very big number of victims. It can reach 18,000 to 20,000 deaths based on the destroyed districts in Derna,” Mayor Abdulmenam al-Ghaithi told the Al Arabiya channel […]
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Wed 13 September 2023: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday met head of Sudan’s Sovereignty Council Abdel Fattah al-Burhan in the Turkish capital of Ankara on Wednesday. No more information was provided about the closed-door meeting held at the presidential complex. The visit is the fifth foreign trip by al-Burhan, who is Sudan’s army […]
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Wed 13 September 2023: The latest edition of the Essential Food Pricing Monitoring (EFPM) report, released by the Competition Commission on Wednesday, details how inflation has come down, but food inflation remains at nearly twice the inflation rate for all goods and services. The report also highlights comparative trends in grocery retailer margins to global […]
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Wed 13 September 2023: In Libya, floods have caused the displacement of more than 36,000 people, the UN migration agency said on Wednesday. “At least 30,000 individuals displaced in Derna due to Storm Daniel, with 3,000 in Albayda, 1,000 in Almkheley, and 2,085 individuals still displaced in Benghazi,” the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Libya […]
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Tue 12 September 2023: The interior ministry of eastern Libya’s administration says the death toll has risen to at least 5,200 people. “Around 5,200 people were killed in Derna city alone,” Tareq al-Kharaz, a spokesman for the ministry, told Anadolu Agency. Aid agencies have so far provided lower figures but warn the number of victims […]
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South African traditional healer Gogo Kamo uses technology to treat her patients remotely. Getty Tue 12 September 2023: Traditional medicines are part of the cultural heritage of many Africans. About 80% of the African continent’s population use these medicines for healthcare. Other reasons include affordability, accessibility, patient dissatisfaction with conventional medicine, and the common misconception that “natural” […]
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