Wed 01 March 2023: Acting Director-General of Government Communication and Information System (GCIS), Nomonde Mnukwa, says government has measures in place to ensure that the public purse is protected from corruption and looting during the National State of Disaster related to the energy crisis. Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, […]
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President-elect Bola Tinubu (C) President Buhari (R). Wed 01 March 2023: Bola Tinubu, the politician long heralded as the “father of modern Lagos”, has won a tight race to succeed Muhammadu Buhari as the next president of Nigeria. Tinubu, “having satisfied the requirements of the law, is hereby declared the winner and is returned elected”, […]
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Tue 28 February 2023: International Relations and Cooperation Minister, Dr Naledi Pandor, has described the “prepper” warning issued by the US Embassy in South Africa to stock up on food and water as the country continues to rollout load shedding as “odd”. This comes after the US government warned its citizens in South Africa to […]
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Tue 28 February 2023: Tunisia must reinstate all judges and prosecutors arbitrarily dismissed by President Kais Saied, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said, with the rights group adding that all measures taken to “crush judicial independence” should be reversed. The watchdog’s latest report, published on Monday, came after the Justice Ministry appointed by Saied refused to […]
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Tue 28 February 2023: Third force candidate of Nigeria, Peter Obi has defeated Bola Tinubu of the influential ruling party to win Lagos State a,ccording to results released by the state’s collation center. T he state is a stronghold for Tinubu, who was predicted to win the state with ease, Obi’s victory is unexpected. Former […]
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Tue 28 February 2023: Consumers will have to tighten their belts even further after the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) announced price increases across the board for all grades of fuel, illuminating paraffin and gas. The increases announced by the DMRE are as follows: Both 93 and 95 petrol will increase by R1.27 […]
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Sun 26 February 2023: The EU announced additional sanctions against individuals from Russia’s Wagner paramilitary group Saturday for “human rights abuses” in three African countries. Eight individuals and seven entities tied to the group were added to the bloc’s sanctions list for asset freezes and travel bans in the Central African Republic, Mali and Sudan, […]
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Sat 25 February 2023: Following President Kais Saied’s remarks about migrants from other parts of the continent, the African Union (AU) criticized Tunisia and advised it to refrain from “racialized hate speech.” On Tuesday, Saied issued an order for the expulsion of all unauthorized immigrants from Tunisia, claiming that immigration was a scheme to alter […]
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Sat 25 February 2023: The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has moved South Africa to the grey list, placing the country to increased monitoring, counter-money laundering, terrorist financing, and proliferation financing. it was confirmed in an update on its website on Friday. On Friday, the France-based global money laundering and terrorist financing watchdog explained that when it […]
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Sat 25 February 2023: Elections for the Nigerian presidency and both houses of the federal parliament are being held across the country’s 36 states, in what is set to be the sixth successive civilian-to-civilian transition of power since a return to democracy in 1999. Eighteen candidates are jostling to succeed Muhammadu Buhari, who steps down as […]
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