Thu 13 July 2023: Each day, thousands of people in the Sudanese area of Darfur opt to leave their homes to seek sanctuary in neighboring Chad, UN humanitarians said on Tuesday. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said the World Food Programme (WFP) is scaling up its operation to support the […]
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Thu 13 July 2023: The credit rating industry in Africa is dominated by the three international agencies: Moody’s, S&P and Fitch. Together they control an estimated 95% of the credit rating business globally. Credit rating agencies are institutions that assess a borrower’s creditworthiness in general terms, or with respect to a particular debt or financial obligation. A credit rating […]
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Thu 13 July 2023: Former Mozambique Finance Minister Manuel Chang has been extradited to the United States of America (USA) to face fraud and corruption charges. Chang is expected to stand trial in New York for his alleged role in the $2 billion loan scheme meant to boost the country’s maritime economy. The alleged looting […]
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Wed 12 July 2023: In an effort to revive the country’s long-depressed housing and construction sectors, Namibia’s central bank announced Wednesday that it is further relaxing curbs on house loans, Xinhua reported. The construction industry, according to the Bank of Namibia, endured long stretches of slow growth that were exacerbated by credit restrictions on the […]
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Wed 12 July 2023: Law enforcement is hot on the heels of 12 people possibly linked to the recent torching of trucks on national roads, says Police Minister Bheki Cele. “These are organised and sophisticated operations. They are organised in one centre in the northern part of KwaZulu-Natal and dispersed in different groups to do […]
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Wed 12 July 2023: Four trucks have been set alight on the N2 between Ermelo and Piet Retief in Mpumalanga, SABC News reported. It comes amid a recent spate of attacks on trucks. According to the police the trucks were set alight around 5am on Wednesday morning. 4 more trucks torched on N2 between Piet […]
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Tue 11 July 2023: A memorandum of understanding (MOU) including collaboration in aviation industry human resource training was signed by Zambia and Kuwait on Tuesday, Xinhua reported. The Southern Africa Institute of Science and Technology in Zambia and the College of Aviation and Technology in Kuwait have both signed the MOU. The signing of the […]
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Tue 11 July 2023: Five million children under five years old died in 2021. Of these, nearly half occurred within the first month – a time of high vulnerability. Sub-Saharan Africa had the highest death rate in the world: 27 in 1,000 newborn babies (1,067,000). This is 11 times higher than in countries with the lowest […]
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Mon 10 July 2023: Starting on Monday, the Africa desk at Al Jazeera is launching a new weeklong feature series on intra-Africa migration, called “Migration within Africa: Home so close to home”. Here’s why. For decades, the matter of Africans migrating has usually been discussed through the lens of conflict or irregular migration, which is […]
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Mon 10 July 2023: Higher Education, Science and Innovation Minister, Dr Blade Nzimande, will this week host the Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa (BRICS) Education Senior Officials Meeting and the 10th Meeting of BRICS Ministers of Education in Mpumalanga. The BRICS education engagements, taking place from 12 – 13 July 2023, are hosted as […]
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