Thu 15 June 2023: A report released by the South African government paints a grim picture of the country’s water resources and water infrastructure as well as the overall quality of its drinking water. The Blue Drop Watch Report – an interim report because it only assessed a sample of the facilities across the country – focused […]
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Wed 14 June 2023: Guinness World Records (GWR) has officially recognized a Nigerian chef’s efforts to beat the record for nonstop cooking. Hilda Baci became a national phenomenon last month after cooking for four days. She cooked for 100 hours – and was allowed a five-minute break each hour or the equivalent over several hours. […]
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Wed 14 June 2023: A group of US lawmakers has called for a US-Africa trade summit planned for later this year to be moved from South Africa in response to what they said was the country’s “deepening military relationship” with Russia. In a letter to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and other senior officials, […]
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Tue 13 June 2023: Violent clashes resumed in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, today between the army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group, according to witnesses. Sounds of artillery shelling and heavy and light weapons were heard in Bahri, northeast of Khartoum and south of the capital, witnesses said. Military aircraft were also seen […]
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Tue 13 June 2023: The Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment’s Working on Fire programme is deploying a second contingent of 200 firefighters and 13 managers to assist in ongoing fire suppression operations in the Canadian province of Alberta. This follows the deployment of 200 firefighters and 15 managers on 3 June 2023. The […]
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China’s population peaked, and is now falling. Tang Ke/VCG via Getty Images Mon 12 June 2023: For decades China was the world’s most populous country. But that’s changed. Its population has peaked, and is now falling. The country has achieved high levels of economic growth for four decades, reducing poverty and raising per capita incomes. Between 1978 and 2018 China’s economy […]
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Mon 12 June 2023: Presidential spokesperson, Vincent Magwenya, has batted away suggestions that South Africa may be hit with international sanctions due to its non-aligned stance regarding the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Magwenya was addressing the media at the Union Buildings on Monday. Government has repeatedly described its stance as one supporting the emergence of peace between […]
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Mon 12 June 2023: President Cyril Ramaphosa has briefed the Chinese President, Xi Jin Ping, on the African Leaders’ Peace Mission to Ukraine and Russia. President Ramaphosa noted that the peace plan has been proposed by China and affirmed by South Africa’s and the African leaders support of initiatives that are aimed at a peaceful […]
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Tunisia’s President Kais Saied (2nd-R) posing for a photo with the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen (2nd-L), Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni (R), and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte (L) at Carthage Palace in Carthage on the eastern outskirts of the Tunisian capital on June 11, 2023. Sun 11 June […]
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Sun 11 June 2023: Romania’s ambassador to Kenya who allegedly compared a monkey with Africans during a meeting in the capital has been recalled, according to the Romanian foreign ministry. Dragos Viorel Tigau was at a United Nations building in Nairobi on April 26 when a monkey appeared at the window of the conference room. […]
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