Sat 21 August 2021: Chad is to half its force in the multinational G5 Sahel force in the troubled three-borders region of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso, recalling 600 soldiers, the government announced Saturday. “This is a strategic redeployment to better adapt to the organisation of the terrorists,” spokesman Abderaman Koulamallah told AFP, referring to […]
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Fri 20 August 2021: The Ugandan government announced on Friday it had halted the activities of 54 non-governmental organisations, a major escalation of its efforts to tighten control over civil society. One of the groups affected is the country’s most prominent rights organisation, Chapter Four. The National Bureau for NGOs, part of the ministry of […]
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Fri 20 August 2021: Sexual offences have increased by 74.1% in the months between April and the end of June this year after lockdown regulations were further relaxed. This was revealed by Police Minister Bheki Cele on Friday when he released the Quarterly Crime Statistics. Cele said the high increase is a distorted number when […]
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Fri 20 August 2021: The Department of Tourism and South African Tourism will host Afrca’s first ever Travel and Tourism Summit. The hybrid summit, which coincides with Tourism Month in South Africa, is set to take place from 19 to 21 September 2021. The summit aims to be a catalyst for engagement on the […]
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Thu 19 August 2021: The World Health Organization has warned that on top of the COVID-19 pandemic, West Africa is facing new outbreaks of the viral haemorrhagic fevers Marburg and Ebola, risking huge strains on ill-equipped health systems. The new outbreaks show the multitude of challenges governments are fighting in parallel with the pandemic, Matshidiso […]
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Thu 19 August 2021: South Africa’s COVID-19 vaccination programme is expected to increase drastically following Cabinet’s approval for the vaccination of people aged between 18 and 35 years from 20 August 2021. Cabinet said it had received a report from the National Coronavirus Command Council (NCCC) indicating that over nine million vaccines have been administered […]
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Thu 19 August 2021: A consortium of doctors and researchers from India, Brazil, Russia, and South Africa have partnered to conduct a study on the epidemiological impact and intersection of the COVID-19 and Tuberculosis pandemics in these countries, Ministry of Science and Technology said. Under this joint research, the teams from these countries will explore […]
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Wed 18 August 2021: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday offered to help mediate an end to fighting in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, vowing to protect the northeast African country’s “integrity”. Erdogan told visiting Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed that the war-hit country’s “peace and integrity is important to us”. “If the situation deteriorates, […]
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Wed 18 August 2021: While South Africa was experiencing the first outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic last year, girls aged 10 to 14 became pregnant and gave birth. Until March of this year, the trend of reported underage pregnancies and deliveries continued. Recently, the Gauteng Department of Health revealed that 23,226 young girls fell pregnant […]
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Tue 17 August 2021: The UN health agency said Tuesday that a second suspected case of infection by the deadly Ebola virus had been detected in Ivory Coast. World Health Organization (WHO) spokesman Tarik Jasarevic said that as of Monday, there had been one confirmed and one suspected case, with nine contacts identified so far. […]
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