Thu 21 July 2022: Somalia’s presidential spokesman said on Tuesday that reports of Somali troops trained in Eritrea being involved in Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict are nothing but “rumours”. Abdikarin Ali Kaar, who held a news conference in the capital Mogadishu, said 5,000 “missing” Somali trainees have been found and the government is working to return […]
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Thu 21 July 2022: Government has rejected what it termed as malicious allegations made by Independent Media Group’s head, Iqbal Surve, about President Cyril Ramaphosa and Public Enterprises Minister, Pravin Gordhan. In a video, Surve alleged that President Ramaphosa and the Minister had applied political pressure and were using the banks to silence the media. […]
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Thu 21 July 2022: Trade, Industry and Competition Minister, Ebrahim Patel, says government is working on addressing load shedding. Patel said once a solution has been found, an announcement will be made through the Minister of Energy. Speaking on the sidelines of the Black Industrialists and Exporters’ Conference, Patel admitted that load shedding is not […]
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Wed 20 July 2022: South Africa’s annual consumer price inflation (CPI) reached 7.4% in June 2022, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) says. This is a 0.9% increase from the 6.5% recorded in May 2022. Statistician General Risenga Maluleke on Wednesday said this was the highest rate since May 2009 when the rate was 8.0%. “The […]
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South African President Cyril Ramaphosa with the President of the European Council, Mr Charles Michel. Wed 20 July 2022: President Cyril Ramaphosa has welcomed European Union (EU) Council President, Charles Michel’s pledge that commits the European Union to supporting Africa’s efforts to achieving food security. The pledge will also help to decrease the continent’s dependence […]
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Tue 19 July 2022: The cause of death of the 21 Eastern Cape youths, who perished at an East London tavern in June, is not clear, authorities said on Tuesday. Initial laboratory toxicology tests have produced inconclusive results, the Eastern Cape provincial government and Police Ministry said at a briefing. The teenagers, aged between 13 […]
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Tue 19 July 2022: Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA) Minister, Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, has extended the National State of Disaster to 18 August 2022. In a Government Gazette published on Monday, the Ministry said the extension of the National State of Disaster “owes to the impact of severe weather events which was originally […]
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20 foot Nelson Mandela‘s statue in Ramallah, Palestine. Mon 18 July 2022: Millions of people across the world remembered Nelson Mandela, the most revered global statesman, who would have turned 104 years old on Monday. The United Nations, in 2009, designated July 18 as International Nelson Mandela Day to celebrate his birthday and also to […]
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Mon 18 July 2022: Morocco is tackling a number of serious wildfires in the country of an unprecedented size and intensity, a local official has confirmed. Fouad Al-Assali, the head of the National Centre for Climate and Forest Risk Management at the National Agency for Water and Forests, told M24 TV that around half of the fires […]
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Mon 18 July 2022: An early warning system was introduced by the African Union (AU) on Saturday with the goal of averting conflicts and promoting peace on the continent. In addition to preventing conflicts on the continent, the Inter-Regional Knowledge Exchange on Early Warning and Conflict Prevention (I-RECKE) will be tasked with identifying and communicating […]
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