Mon 08 November 2021: Eskom has warned that it may have to escalate load shedding, as the power system remains “volatile and unpredictable”. On Sunday, the power utility announced that it expects to continue with stage two load shedding until Saturday morning. Eskom said events over the weekend caused the power utility to implement stage […]
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Sun 07 November 2021: The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Africa reached 8,527,394 cases as of Sunday afternoon, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said. The Africa CDC, the specialized healthcare agency of the African Union (AU), said the death toll from the pandemic across the continent stands at 219,418. […]
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Sat 06 November 2021: The Egyptian government has decided to ban the import of tuk-tuks following a government initiative to replace them with safer means of transportation, Egyptian media reported on Friday. Minister of Industry and Commerce Niveen Al-Qubbaj shared that tuk-tuks will be replaced with natural gas-powered minivans nationwide. In 2019, the Egyptian government ordered Egyptian factories […]
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Sat 06 November 2021: At least 91 people were killed after a fuel truck collided with a lorry in Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown. Fuel leaked before igniting, engulfing bystanders and vehicles at a busy intersection. The government has yet to confirm the death toll, but the manager of the central state mortuary in Freetown said […]
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Sat 06 November 2021: For the first time, the United Nations Security Council has called for an end to hostilities in Ethiopia, encouraging the warring parties to seek a “lasting ceasefire.” According to the UN, up to 7 million people in Tigray, Amhara, and Afar need assistance, including 5 million in Tigray, where an estimated […]
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Fri 05 November 2021: Eskom says it will be implementing Stage Four load shedding from 2pm this afternoon after further shutdowns at its power stations. This after the power utility implemented Stage Two load shedding this morning following numerous issues at power stations. Total breakdowns have cost the grid at least 17 000MW in energy. […]
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Fri 05 November 2021: After 69 people were killed, including a mayor, in a gunman attack in the country’s southwest, Niger’s government declared two days of national mourning on Thursday The attack was the most recent in Niger’s “tri-border” zone with Burkina Faso and Mali, a volatile territory that has been the epicenter of a […]
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Fri 05 November 2021: There are now 184 222 vaccinated children aged between 12 and 17 in South Africa, of which 13 569 received the single dose of the Pfizer vaccine on Thursday. According to the Department of Health, the country administered 152 049 jabs in the past 24 hours, pushing the total doses to […]
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Fri 05 November 2021: After declaring him persona non grata, Somalia has requested the African Union Commission (AUC) envoy in the country to depart within a week. Somalia’s foreign ministry said in a statement on Thursday that AUC deputy special representative in Mogadishu Simon Mulongo was no longer welcome in the country because he was […]
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Thu 04 November 2021: President Cyril Ramaphosa has called on world leaders to take “bold action” in accelerating decarbonisation of energy systems. The President made the call in a message he delivered vitually at the COP26 Energy Session on Thursday. In his message, the President acknowledged that climate change undoubtedly presented a critical and urgent […]
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