Sun 12 June 2022: At least 18.4 million people are already experiencing high levels of acute food insecurity and rising malnutrition across the three Horn of Africa (HOA) countries of Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) has warned, Xinhua. reports The UNOCHA, in its latest situation update […]
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Sat 10 June 2022: Algeria deplores and rejects “hasty” EU comments after its decision to suspend a 20-year-old friendship treaty with Spain, Ennahar TV reported on Saturday, quoting the foreign ministry. Algiers was angered when Spain said in March it supported a Moroccan plan to offer autonomy to Western Sahara. Algeria backs the Polisario Front movement seeking […]
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Sat 10 June 2022: According to local media, clashes between armed factions have erupted in Libya’s capital, as the country suffers from a brutal power struggle. On Friday night, heavy gunfire and explosions ricocheted over numerous Tripoli districts, while footage broadcast by local media and shared on social media showed citizens fleeing heavily populated locations. […]
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The Refugee Rights Campaign organised a protest on June 8, in front of the Rwandan Embassy in London Sat 10 June 2022: The first flight to take asylum seekers from the United Kingdom to Rwanda can go ahead next week, the High Court in London ruled after a judge dismissed attempts to win an injunction to […]
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Fri 10 June 2022: President Cyril Ramaphosa says he and government are committed to accounting to the people of South Africa and addressing challenges that the country is facing. He was speaking during a reply to the Presidency’s budget vote in Parliament on Friday. The President has been under some scrutiny amid revelations that there was […]
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Fri 10 June 2022: Africa will face a “very serious” famine situation if wheat exports from Ukraine to the continent do not resume, Senegal’s President Macky Sall, who is also chairman of the African Union, said Thursday. The famine could destabilize the continent, Sall told French media outlets Radio France Internationale and France 24 television. Mentioning his meeting last week with Russian […]
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Fri 10 June 2022: Justice and Constitutional Development Minister Ronald Lamola says the President, as a victim of crime, has a right to be treated fairly by the justice system. The Minister said this when he participated in a debate on the Presidency budget vote during a sitting of the National Assembly on Thursday. “We […]
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Thu 09 June 2022: The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) of Kenya revealed on Wednesday that it has discovered 246,465 dead people on its voter list for the August 9 parliamentary elections. The Commission discovered multiple irregularities, requiring it to postpone the publication of the voter’s register until Wednesday. The electoral body also discovered […]
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Thu 09 June 2022: The National Joint Operational and Intelligence Structure (NATJOINTS) says it is aware of unsigned messages and posters circulating on various social media platforms calling for a national shutdown. In a statement, the NATJOINTS warned those behind these messages and reminded that prohibiting people’s freedom of movement is a criminal offence. NATJOINTS […]
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Thu 09 June 2022: Deputy President David Mabuza says law enforcement agencies should be allowed to investigate the robbery at President Cyril Ramaphosa’s farm without any interference. The Deputy President said this when he was responding to a supplementary question by the DA’s Deputy Chief Whip Siviwe Gwarube. The question was asked as the Deputy President […]
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