Sun 14 November 2021: The South African government has withdrawn its support for the Miss SA pageant. This is over outrage for staging the Miss Universe pageant in Israel in December. The withdrawal follows consultations between the Department of Sports, Arts and Culture and the pageant’s organisers. In the statement, Minister Nathi Mthethwa said that […]
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Sun 14 November 2021: After 10 years of hard work in the translation of the Kalenjin Quran from its initial language in Arabic, the Muslim faithfuls from the North Rift region re-launched the final draft of the Holy Quran named ‘Kuran ne Toroor’. The Kalenjin Quran becomes the first ethnic-translated Quran in the Country. The […]
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Sat 13 November 2021: Deputy President David Mabuza has expressed concern that the country could fail to vaccinate close to 40 million citizens by the end of 2021, as South Africa races to reach herd immunity. “I’m not very sure whether we are going to reach our targets, the 70% that we are yearning for. […]
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Fri 12 November 2021: Ethiopia’s conflict-torn Tigray region is under “effective blockade”, the World Health Organization chief said Friday, warning that people were starving to death and dying from lack of access to medicines. “People are dying because of lack of supplies,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, himself a Tigrayan, told reporters, warning that WHO “cannot send […]
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Fri 12 November 2021: For the first time, a non-fungible token (NFT) of a rhino horn was auctioned off in South Africa to generate funds to protect real rhinos. According to reports, a businessman from Cape Town spent 105,000 rands (US $6,850) for the digital horn, which he intends to put into a trust for […]
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Fri 12 November 2021: Nigeria is among the countries with the highest rate of child marriage globally, as 78 percent of girls in the northern region get married before 18, said a report released here Thursday. The report, titled “State of the Nigerian Girl: An Inclusive Diagnosis of Child Marriage,” by Save the Children International(SCI), […]
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Fri 12 November 2021: A survey conducted by the World Health Organisation (WHO) has revealed that African people who have diabetes and contract COVID-19 have a significant higher chance of dying. This is according to WHO Africa Region’s Dr Benido Impouma, who was briefing the media ahead of World Diabetes Day which is expected to […]
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Thu 11 November 2021: Sudan’s de facto ruler, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, named a new ruling council on Thursday to regulate the country’s transition following the military takeover last month, according to state television. Burhan announced the announcement more than two weeks after dissolving Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok’s government, detaining civilian leaders, and declaring a […]
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Thu 11 November 2021: Malian authorities have not signed any contracts with Russian private military companies, according to Malian Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop, who described the claims as a smear campaign. “As for our cooperation with a private military company, we have already discussed this directly with our French colleagues. I confirmed that no contracts […]
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Thu 11 November 2021: Inflation is expected to rise to 4.5 % in 2021 due to pressures from food and energy prices, the National Treasury said on Thursday. Tabling the Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) in the National Assembly on Thurday, the department said, however, that inflation is expected to remain contained over a three-year […]
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