Thu 26 January 2023: France will withdraw its troops from Burkina Faso within a month, Anadolu Agency reported Wednesday. Burkina Faso on Monday requested that France withdraw its military, which was deployed to help local forces battle insurgents linked to the al-Qaeda and Daesh terrorist organizations. The West African country said it has decided to end a military […]
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Thu 26 January 2023: Infants, the elderly, persons living with disabilities, pregnant women, outdoor workers, and those who are on chronic medications are the most vulnerable to death as a result of exposure to extreme heat. This is according to research conducted by the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) and its partners. The research, […]
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Thu 26 January 2023: Eskom has called on the City of Tshwane municipality to pay its bulk electricity supply to enable the power utility to “continue supplying electricity to the city”. This after Eskom revealed that the municipality’s debt has risen to some R1.4 billion. “The City of Tshwane’s electricity debt has compounded…due to its […]
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Wed 25 January 2023: As part of her meeting with South African officials, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Janet Yellen, has announced a commitment between the U.S. Department of the Treasury and South Africa’s National Treasury to form a United States–South Africa Task Force on Combating the Financing of Wildlife Trafficking. In a statement, the […]
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Wed 25 January 2023: More than 1,000 people have died in Malawi’s deadliest cholera outbreak on record, which has seen 30,621 cases. Malawi’s health minister, Khumbize Chiponda said. According to the World Health Organization, the death toll on Tuesday passed a somber milestone and surpassed the deadliest outbreak ever, which claimed 968 lives between 2001 […]
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President Cyril Ramaphosa receives, Minister of foreign Affairs of the Russia Sergei Lavrov in Pretoria. Wed 25 January 2023: Pretoria has refused to condemn Moscow’s invasion but continues to call for dialogue. The United States has criticised South Africa’s decision to hold military exercises next month with Russia and China as the war in Ukraine […]
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Tue 24 January 2023: Police Minister, Bheki Cele, has called on the courts to mete out the harshest possible sentence to criminals who murder police officers. This comes in the wake of the killing of yet another policeman in Port Edward, KwaZulu-Natal, at the weekend. Cele and South African Police Service (SAPS) management, led by […]
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Mon 23 January 2023: Naledi Pandor, minister of international relations for South Africa, reaffirmed her country’s support for a negotiated peace agreement to end the conflict in Ukraine. Pandor met with Sergey Lavrov, the country’s foreign minister, on Monday in Pretoria. Pandor said South Africa’s position remains that diplomacy is the best route to ending […]
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Mon 23 January 2023: Defence and Military Veterans Minister, Thandi Modise, says she is confident that the multinational maritime exercise between South Africa, Russia and China that will take place over a 10-day period will benefit all three participating nations. “The envisaged exercise will benefit all countries involved through interoperability of the naval systems, joint […]
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Sun 22 January 2023: The military administration of Burkina Faso has ordered the departure of French troops stationed there within a month. This latest indication of deteriorating ties between France and its former colony since a second military coup in September of last year comes from the official Agence d’Information du Burkina (AIB), which made […]
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