Wed 16 November 2022: The International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS) has asked the Grand Mufti of Oman, Sheikh Ahmad Al-Khalili, to become its head. In a short video posted by Qatari journalist Jaber Al Harmi on Twitter, Secretary-General of the Union, Sheikh Ali Qaradaghi, proposed the offer to Sheikh Al-Khalili. According to Al Harmi, the delegation […]
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Wed 16 November 2022: As the festive season approaches, the South African Police Service (SAPS) is ramping up efforts to improve service delivery to communities by injecting additional policing resources in identified high crime areas. Police Minister, General Bheki Cele, said that if police want to flush out crime, they must operate with extra capacity. […]
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Tue 15 November 2022: Britain is to withdraw its peacekeeping troops from the West African state of Mali despite rising Islamist activity in the region, the government has announced. Armed Forces Minister James Heappey said the 300-strong British contingent with the United Nations peacekeeping mission is to end its three-year deployment early. The move comes after President Emmanuel Macron announced […]
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Tue 15 November 2022: The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) has warned members of the public of a scam doing the rounds in various parts of the country, where unscrupulous people are circulating fraudulent tenders under the bank’s name. In a statement issued by SARB, the email address and the tender documents attached to the […]
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Tue 15 November 2022: President Cyril Ramaphosa has called for the African Union to be made a permanent member of the G20. The G20 is a group of 20 countries with leading economies which come together to discuss policy on health, trade and other issues. The President was speaking during the Working Session on Food […]
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Tue 15 November 2022: Lemekhani Nathan Nyirenda was studying in Moscow but imprisoned in April 2020 and sent to fight in Ukraine this year. A Zambian student who was imprisoned in Russia has been killed in Ukraine while fighting on the Russian side, an official from the southern African country said. Lemekhani Nathan Nyirenda, 23, […]
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Mon 14 November 2022: Following a string of deadly strikes by the terror group, the United States said on Monday that it was boosting its reward for information about important Al-Shabaab leaders in Somalia to $10 million. Additionally, the US State Department declared that it was for the first time providing a reward of up […]
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Mon 14 November 2022: The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) announced on Monday that September 2022 recorded more load shedding than the whole of 2020. “September 2022 was an exceptionally high month in terms of load shedding. The year 2022 is the first year that the majority of load shedding has not been […]
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Mon 14 November 2022: The Green Scorpions, which have been mandated to protect the environment by enforcing legislation, have in the past financial year maintained, and in some instances, even increased the level of compliance and enforcement activities. This according to the statistics outlined in National Environmental Compliance and Enforcement Report, which was officially released […]
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Sat 12 November 2022: A Moroccan official has confirmed that the Nigeria-Morocco natural gas pipeline (NMGP) serves 13 African countries, Anadolu Agency reported on Friday. The 6,000 kilometres of the pipeline will cross the African countries along the Atlantic coast and supply the landlocked states of Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali. General Director of the National Office of Hydrocarbons and Mines (ONHYM) of […]
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