Sun 14 May 2023: Search teams looking through Kenya’s Shakahola forest, where mass graves linked to a cult were discovered last month, uncovered 22 more dead, raising the death toll to more than 200. police have said. “Our forensic team was able to exhume 22 bodies today,” Rhodah Onyancha, the regional police chief, told reporters […]
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Sat 13 May 2023: According to UNICEF, the UN organization for children, at least 450,000 children in Sudan have been forced to leave their homes because of the continuous war, Anadolu Agency reported. Violence between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) group has been raging in the conflict-torn African nation for weeks. […]
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Sat 13 May 2023: Zimbabwe’s gold-backed digital currency comes a year after the country launched gold coins to stabilise its rapidly devaluing currency. Harare, Zimbabwe – On Monday, Zimbabwe released a gold-backed digital currency for peer-to-peer and peer-to-business transactions as well as to act as a store of value as the country’s currency continues to lose […]
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Fri 12 May 2023: Russian President Vladimir Putin and his South African counterpart, Cyril Ramaphosa, discussed Moscow-Pretoria relations and the conflict in Ukraine during a phone conversation on Friday, the Kremlin said. “At the initiative of the South African side, Russian President Vladimir Putin held a phone conversation with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa. Topical issues of Russian-South African […]
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Russian cargo ship Lady R leaves Simon’s Town harbour. (Photo: Supplied) Fri 12 May 2023: Spokesperson for President Cyril Ramaphosa, Vincent Magwenya, says there is no evidence to suggest that a Russian vessel, which docked in the Western Cape last year, took weapons back to that country. This after the US Ambassador to South […]
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Fri 12 May 2023: The U.N. Human Rights Office reported on Friday that during a five-day operation in the village of Moura in central Mali in March 2022, Malian soldiers and unidentified foreign military personnel were believed to have murdered at least 500 people, Reuters reported. After months of investigation, a U.N. report on the […]
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Thu 11 May 2023: Statements made by US ambassador in South Africa Reuben Brigety alleging that the African nation supplies weapons to Russia undermine the spirit of Pretoria-Washington relations, the South African Presidency said on Thursday. The Ambassdor’s remarks undermine the spirit of cooperation and partnership that characterised the recent engagements between US government officials […]
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Thu 11 May 2023: The UN Human Rights Council adopted a resolution, Thursday, on the human rights impact of the conflict in Sudan, Anadolu News Agency reports. Calling for an immediate cessation of violence with no pre-conditions by all parties in the fighting between the Army and a paramilitary group, the decision was passed with 18 votes […]
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Thu 11 May 2023: The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) says it has recorded an unexpected, sudden increase in mumps, which constitutes an outbreak. According to the public health institute, mumps is an acute viral infection caused by the rubulavirus, also known as the mumps virus. “It is sometimes called ‘infectious parotitis’, as it […]
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Thu 11 May 2023: If wisely used, Africa’s rich natural resources, which include minerals, oil, gas, and rare metals, have the potential to bring the continent to new levels of prosperity and speed up the continent’s transition to a green economy, according to a new research released by the World Bank on Wednesday. Titled “Africa’s […]
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