Mon 07 February 2022: The South Africa National Defence Force (SANDF) has refuted claims that it recruits child soldiers after a social media post that made rounds recently. South African Army Chief, Lieutenant General Lawrence Khulekani Mbatha, said he was outraged by the “repeated efforts by faceless criminals to bring the South African Army (SA […]
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Mon 07 February 2022: Cameroon: Senegal won their first Africa Cup of Nations title with a 4-2 penalty shoot-out triumph over seven-time winners Egypt, with Sadio Mane scoring the winning spot-kick after missing one in the early minutes of the game. On Sunday at the Olembe Stadium in Yaounde, Cameroon’s Yaounde, Mane made history for […]
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Sun 06 February 2022: Yaounde, Cameroon – In July 2019, Senegalese journalist Bamba Kasse saw his country’s football fans dejected, frustrated and disappointed at the Cairo International Stadium as their national team, Lions of Teranga, lost to Algeria in the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) final. “Everyone was disappointed,” Kasse told Al Jazeera. “It was not […]
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Sun 06 February 2022: Tunisian President Kais Saied has dissolved a judicial council that deals with the independence of judges. Last July, Saied, who had dissolved the government and suspended parliament, declared the Supreme Judicial Council was a “thing of the past” on Sunday. He also accused members of the council of collecting “billions” in […]
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Sun 06 February 2022: Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh urged the African Union to withdraw Israel’s accreditation, bringing simmering tensions to a head as the 55-member bloc opened a two-day summit in Ethiopia. Even as the continent reels from a spate of military coups and the coronavirus pandemic, the relationship with Israel was expected to figure […]
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Sat 05 February 2022: Algerian Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra has denounced an African Union decision to grant Israel an observer status as a “double mistake”. “We were not the ones who initiated the granting of observer status to anyone,” Lamamra said in an interview with Radio France International and France 24 satellite channel in the […]
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Sat 05 February 2022: Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah is to face his teammate Sadio Mane in the final of this year’s Africa Cup of Nations in the Cameroonian capital of Yaounde. Salah, playing for the Egyptian national team, edged past hosts Cameroon in a penalty shootout, putting him up against his Liverpool teammate Mane, playing for […]
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Sat 05 February 2022: According to a study released Friday by the United Nations, providing mercenaries in Libya’s internal conflict has become the major source of cash for armed groups from Sudan’s own war-torn Darfur region. The guns-for-hire deals were enabled by the United Arab Emirates, according to a report written by UN experts in […]
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Fri 04 February 2022: The number of COVID-19 infections has reached a plateau, with the increase in infection rates driven by school-age children, Health Minister, Dr Joe Phaahla, announced on Friday. According to the Minister, the past 14 days have given a “confusing” picture and shown a slow drop in infections. “The picture has been that of […]
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Fri 04 February 2022: State power utility Eskom says it will review the possibility of lifting load shedding on Friday afternoon. This as the power utility implemented Stage 2 load shedding from Wednesday until Monday morning, following several trips at power stations and a depletion of emergency generating reserves. Eskom Chief Executive, Andre De Ruyter, […]
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