Thu 27 October 2022: Eskom says it will be implementing various stages of load shedding throughout the weekend following the near depletion of its emergency generation reserves. By Thursday morning, Eskom said it had at least 16 585MW of capacity offline due to breakdowns with a further 5 683MW offline due to maintenance. “Stage 3 load shedding […]
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Wed 26 October 2022: The US government has issued a security alert and warned its embassy staff about a “possible terrorist attack” in greater Sandton, reportedly planned for Saturday October 29. In an advisory, published on Wednesday, the US government said: The U.S. government has received information that terrorists may be planning to conduct an […]
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Wed 26 October 2022: South African police said Tuesday that in the last two weeks in Gauteng Province, they have arrested 140 suspects and recovered over 300 unlicensed firearms and 2,800 rounds of ammunition, Xinhua reported. According to police spokesperson Dimakatso Sello, the unlicensed firearms were recovered in Gauteng Province between October 11 and October […]
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Tue 25 October 2022: In a fire that ripped through a dormitory at a school for the blind in eastern Uganda as students were sleeping, at least 11 people—mostly children—have died, according to officials. East of the capital, Kampala, in the Mukono district’s Luga village, the Salama School for the Blind, the catastrophe happened at […]
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Mon 24 October 2022: More than 40,000 African migrants have arrived in war-torn Yemen since the start of this year, according to the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), Anadolu News Agency reports. “More than 40,000 migrants have landed on Yemen’s shores, so far, in 2022 according to displacement tracking matrix (DTM) estimates,” the IOM said in a […]
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Mon 24 October 2022: South Africa’s major cities in the Gauteng Province – the country’s economic heartland – are experiencing major water shortages. In Johannesburg and Tshwane taps have run dry, with numerous areas experiencing intermittent supply while some areas have no water at all. The province has metropolitan areas – the City of Johannesburg, Tshwane […]
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Sun 23 October 2022: In the middle of Somalia’s port city of Kismayu, a car carrying explosives rammed into the gate of a hotel, following gunfire, according to a police officer and a resident on Sunday. Security forces were addressing a “terrorist incident,” according to the state-run Somali National Television, which posted the information on […]
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Sat 22 October 2022: “Tears of the Seine”, an animated short film, has received attention in France and globally, Anadolu News Agency reports. The film was awarded a bronze medal on Thursday at the Student Oscars in Los Angeles. It sheds light on the bloody police crackdown on the demonstration by Algerians in Paris on 17 October, […]
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Sat 22 October 2022: Zimbabwe has become the first nation in Africa and the third nation overall to approve an HIV prevention drug that the World Health Organization recently recommended (WHO). Zimbabwe has approved the use of long-acting injectable cabotegravir (CAB-LA) as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention, recommended by the World Health Organisation (WHO) […]
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Morocco’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Nasser Bourita. Fri 21 October 2022: Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita has described South Africa’s reception of Polisario Front leader Ibrahim Ghali as a “noisy glamour show”, Anadolu has reported. Bourita made his remark in a joint press conference in Rabat yesterday with his Belgian counterpart, Hadja Lahbib. Bourita’s dismissive comment was […]
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