Sun 20 August 2023: After meeting with a team of West African leaders, Niger’s coup leader advocated a three-year handover of power and warned that any attack on the country would “not be a walk in the park” for those involved. General Abdourahmane Tchiani said on national television late Saturday that the principles for the […]
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Sat 19 August 2023: Morocco has refrained from submitting an application to join BRICS and will be absent from the upcoming summit in Johannesburg, as confirmed by the state news agency MAP on Saturday, Anadolu reports. Citing an undisclosed source within the Foreign Ministry, the agency conveyed that there had never been any intention of positively […]
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Sat 19 August 2023: Imagine the weight of responsibility for caring for a child when you are not yet fully grown yourself, and the fear of being shamed by parents, fellow learners, and even strangers within the community? Vast numbers of adolescent mothers, many of them very vulnerable, exist across Africa, but there remains little […]
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Sat 19 August 2023: The major West African bloc has agreed on a “D-day” for possible military involvement in Niger to restore democracy after generals deposed and imprisoned President Mohamed Bazoum last month. According to a senior official, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) agreed on Friday to activate a standby force as […]
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Fri 18 August 2023: The National Department of Health on Wednesday confirmed the first case of the new COVID-19 “Eris” variant from a sample taken in Gauteng. The department has since used this opportunity to remind citizens that they can still access life-saving vaccines at public healthcare facilities, although the World Health Organisation (WHO) has […]
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Fri 18 August 2023: Police Minister Bheki Cele says while there are still unacceptably high crime levels, violent crime levels are starting to show a decrease. “We have analysed these recent figures and this Ministry remains persuaded, that the decision to aggressively and strategically confront crime, was the right one,” Cele said at a media […]
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Fr 18 August 2023: Next week, Chinese President Xi Jinping will pay a state visit to South Africa and attend the BRICS summit there. “At the invitation of President of the Republic of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa, President Xi Jinping will attend the 15th BRICS Summit to be held in Johannesburg, South Africa, and pay […]
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Thu 17 August 2023: Algeria has banned the movie “Barbie,” which had been showing at some cinemas in the country for several weeks, an official source and the local 24H Algerie news site said on Monday. The official source said the film “promotes homosexuality and other Western deviances” and that it “does not comply with Algeria’s religious and cultural […]
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A trader from Zambia sits outside a clothing wholesale market, August 2013, in Guangzhou, home to one of the largest black communities in Asia, peopled by traders from around the world. (AFP/Getty Images) Thu 17 August 2023: Human Rights Watch has found racist content targeting Black people is becoming increasingly prevalent on China’s social […]
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FILE PHOTO: Police cordon off the scene where 15 people were killed by unknown gunmen inside a tavern, in Nomzamo, Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa, on Jul 10, 2022. (Photo: REUTERS/Siyabonga Sishi) Thu 17 August 2023: Police say kidnappings rose from 3,832 cases in 2013 to nearly 11,000 cases in 2021, with most of those […]
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