Wed 06 October 2021: Mali has summoned France’s ambassador to express its “indignation” at French President Emmanuel Macron’s recent criticism of Mali’s government, which is controlled by military officials. Since it was revealed that the Sahel state is in talks with Russian mercenaries, tensions between France and its former colony Mali have been high. On […]
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Wed 06 October 2021: South Africa has administered 197 698 COVID-19 jabs in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of doses to 18 285 920. Meanwhile, the Department of Health said 9 364 725 adults are now fully vaccinated, of which 141 865 people were jabbed with Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose vaccine or the two-dose Pfizer vaccine […]
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Tue 05 October 2021: President Cyril Ramaphosa will today chair an Extraordinary Summit of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Organ Troika Plus the Republic of Mozambique in Pretoria. The President is convening the summit in his capacity as Chair of the SADC Organ on Politics, Defence and Security Cooperation. The summit is expected to […]
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Tue 05 October 2021: Mineral Resources and Energy Minister, Gwede Mantashe, has announced a marginal decrease in the prices of petrol, while the price of diesel is expected to increase. Motorists are expected to pay four cents less per litre for 93 octane petrol, one cent less for 95 octane petrol per litre and at […]
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Tue 05 October 2021: French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday that he hoped diplomatic tensions with Algeria would soon ease. “My wish is that is that we can calm things down because I think it is better to talk to one another, and to make progress,” Macron told France Inter radio in an interview, […]
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Tue 05 October 2021: President Cyril Ramaphosa has published the names of the qualifying candidates for the next Chief Justice of the Republic of South Africa. In a statement on Monday, the President thanked members of the public for responding to his invitation to participate in the process of nominating the next Chief Justice. “The […]
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Mon 04 October 2021: The South African Special Risk Insurance Association (Sasria) has to date paid out R5.8 billion in claims to businesses that suffered damages during the July unrest in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng. This was on Monday revealed by the National Treasury and Sasria in a joint statement. The two said that work had […]
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Sun 03 October 2021: The Algerian government has banned French military planes from its airspace, the French army said on Sunday, amid a diplomatic crisis sparked by a visa row and reported critical comments from the President of France Emmanuel Macron. France’s jets regularly fly over Algerian territory to reach the Sahel region of western Africa, […]
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Sun 03 October 2021: Algeria has recalled its ambassador to France for consultations after what it called “irresponsible” comments attributed to French President Emmanuel Macron, Algeria’s presidency said on Saturday, reports Reuters. “Following comments that several sources attributed to … Macron, Algeria expresses its categorical rejection of inadmissible interference in its internal affairs,” the presidency said […]
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Sat 02 October 2021: Main donors the United States, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Norway, Canada as well as the European Union, on Friday called for “full commitment” from the World Health Organization to prevent a repeat of rapes and sexual abuse allegedly committed by its workers sent to fight Ebola in DR Congo. “We expect […]
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