Sat 12 November 2022: 10 African nations claimed that the European Union’s stance on the planned commercial trade restriction had a detrimental effect on the hippopotamus’ ability to survive. The population of hippos has decreased significantly over the past ten years, according to the documents supplied by the countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Central African […]
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Fri 11 November 2022: Ethiopia’s government, on Friday, announced that its forces now control 70 per cent of the country’s northern Tigray regions in the wake of a peace deal, Anadolu News Agency reports. Redwan Hussein, National Security Adviser to Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, said that the Ethiopian National Defence Force took control of most of the Tigray […]
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Fri 11 November 2022: Two truck drivers working for an Eskom contracted company have been arrested after they were caught with stolen coal at the Kendal Power Station on Wednesday evening. According to the power utility, the men work for an ash transporting company. “The trucks belonging to an ash transporting company contracted to Eskom […]
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Fri 11 November 2022: Limpopo has recorded 14 new laboratory-confirmed measles cases in the province’s two sub-districts between 8 and 9 November 2022, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) reported on Thursday. This brings the number of laboratory-confirmed measles outbreak to 35 infections. This comes after the NICD declared a measles outbreak after three […]
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Thu 10 November 2022: The High Court in Pretoria has granted the National Prosecuting Authority’s Asset Forfeiture Unit (NPA AFU) and the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) an order to freeze the assets belonging to Eskom’s former middle manager for Program Complex Projects Duduzile Moyo and her husband Mmoloki Moyo. The assets include a luxury property […]
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Wed 09 November 2022: South Africa, France and Germany have signed loan agreements for the two European nations to each extend €300 million in concessional financing to South Africa to support the country’s efforts to reduce its reliance on coal through a just transition to cleaner energy sources. This was on Wednesday confirmed by National […]
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Wed 09 November 2022: French President Emmanuel Macron is due to deliver a speech in the southern French city of Toulon to officially conclude the country’s almost nine-year-long ‘Operation Barkhane’ in Africa’s Sahel area, according to the Elysée Palace, the French President’s office. The development occurs after French troops left Mali on August 15, 2022. […]
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Wed 09 November 2022: The Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency or TIKA has invested more than 100 million rands ($5.62 million) in supporting sustainable development projects in the Southern Africa region, the state-run aid agency has said. “We have conducted 69 projects since our Pretoria office started operations in 2018 to date. This year we focused on projects supporting sustainable development […]
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DG DSI, Dr Mjwara and NASA’s Badri Younes sign the letter of intent to commence with construction of a LEGS antenna Wed 09 November 2022: The Department of Science and Innovation (DSI) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on Tuesday signed a letter of intent to formalise a space exploration partnership. The signing […]
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Tue 08 November 2022: Due to the confirmation of 23 Ebola cases among pupils, including eight fatal cases, all schools in Uganda will be closed two weeks before the scheduled end of the school year. Preschools, primary schools, and secondary schools will be closed on November 25 due to overcrowding in classrooms, according to Education […]
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