Tue 17 May 2022: The delegates of the BRICS countries had a high-level conference on Tuesday, during which they decided to deepen and extend multilayered cooperation in the subject of climate change, according to the Russian Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment. Under the chairmanship of Chinese Minister of Ecology and Environment Huang Runqiu, delegates […]
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Tue 17 May 2022: Eskom Chief Operating Officer, Jan Oberholzer, says Eskom may be forced to increase load shedding from Stage 3 load shedding to Stage 4 if the power utility fails to gather enough generation capacity to feed national peak demand. According to Oberholzer, Eskom suffered at least eight major breakdowns at its power […]
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Mon 16 May 2022: No country and economy can consider itself to be at the forefront of progress if its success and riches have been built on the backs of children, says President Cyril Ramaphosa. President Ramaphosa was delivering an address at the Fifth Global Conference on the Elimination of Child Labour, in partnership with […]
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Mon 16 May 2022: Mali’s military junta announced its withdrawal from the G5 Sahel multi-national military group in West Africa on Sunday, claiming a lack of progress in rooting out an insurgency. Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, and Niger formed the G5 Sahel in 2014, and its anti-insurgent force was launched in 2017 as part […]
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Mon 16 May 2022: The National Consumer Commission has called on consumers in possession of Knorr-Cup-a-Soup Lite Beef and Vegetable to discontinue use of the product and return it to the point of sale for a full refund. According to Acting National Consumer Commissioner, Thezi Mabuza, the supplier of the product informed the Commission of […]
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Sun 15 May 2022: Like many others, I was surprised and upset to hear about the UK’s new deal to offload its responsibility to tens of thousands of asylum seekers to Rwanda. The plan is for Rwanda to process and host such refugees indefinitely. I have spent 12 years researching and working with refugees in East Africa, […]
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Fri 13 May 2022: President Cyril Ramaphosa has called on global agencies to assist in boosting the local manufacturing and production of COVID-19 vaccines by procuring vaccines and boosters from African manufacturers. The President was speaking in his capacity as the AU Champion for COVID-19 Response on Thursday at the second Global Summit on COVID-19. […]
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Fri 13 May 2022: According to the United Nations Children’s Fund, more than 18.5 million children in Nigeria lack access to school, with females accounting for more than half of the total. This represents a staggering increase in the number of children out of school in Africa’s most populous country, which UNICEF estimated at 10.5 […]
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Fri 13 May 2022: Namibia established a sovereign wealth fund months after oil majors TotalEnergies and Shell discovered oil off its coast. President Hage Geingob said the Welwitschia Fund would get an initial injection of 262 million Namibian dollars ($16.3 million) and invest 2.5 percent of its portfolio locally to bridge the country’s infrastructure finance […]
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Thu 12 May 2022: The ongoing Russia-Ukraine war is jeopardising food security in low-income countries, especially in the Middle East and Africa, an expert said, and Anadolu News Agency reports. Eren Gunhan Ulusoy, Head of the International Association of Operative Millers (IAOM) Eurasia, told Anadolu Agency some countries in Africa are requesting aid as they cannot find sufficient resources […]
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