Thu 12 August 2021: Nigeria’s ban on Twitter will be lifted soon after the government and Twitter reach an agreement to resolve their issues, the administration announced on Wednesday. The ban was announced in June, only days after President Muhammadu Buhari’s statement was removed off Twitter, sparking an international outrage over freedom of expression. According […]
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Tue 10 August 2021: Namibia reported on Wednesday that only a third of the 170 live elephants it put up for auction had been sold, despite drought and territorial strife with people putting pressure on tusker populations. In a statement, the environment ministry said it has “successfully sold 57 of the 170 elephants which were […]
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Wed 11 August 2021: A series of simultaneous wildfires broke out yesterday morning across forests in the cities of Ain Draham and Tabarka in the governorate of Jendouba and some cities in the state of Bizerte in northern Tunisia. Civil protection units and the National Army have reportedly been working nonstop to extinguish the fires […]
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Wed 11 August 2021: At least 65 people, 28 of them soldiers deployed as relief firefighters, have been killed as dozens of wildfires raged for a second day in Algeria Wednesday, state television reported. “The death toll from the forest fires has climbed to 65 dead — 28 soldiers and 37 civilians — most of […]
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Wed 11 August 2021: A 31-year-old suspect appeared in the Nelspruit Magistrates’ court this morning, following his arrest in a joint operation by the Hawks’ national Serious Corruption Investigation and the Special Investigative Unit in Mpumalanga on Monday. The suspect was arrested after offering and handing over R50 000 to the complainant in order to […]
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Wed 11 August 2021: The annual Skytrax World Airport Awards announced Tuesday that Cape Town International Airport has received the 2021 Best Airport in Africa Award for the sixth year in a row, Xinuha reported. As the gateway to South Africa’s legislative capital and a popular tourist attraction, the airport has also won the Best […]
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Tue 10 August 2021: The Joint Standing Committee on Intelligence (JSCI) Chairperson Jerome Maake has recently received an approval from the Houses of Parliament to embark on an inquiry into allegations of intelligence failures by the intelligence services. Maake said that following the outbreak of the events of violence and looting that took place in […]
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Tue 10 August 2021: The Gauteng Education Department says Phase 1 of the 2022 admissions online application period is open from today until 3 September 2021, for learners who are currently in grade 7. Phase 2 of the 2022 admission period will commence on 13 September 2021 and close on 8 October 2021. According to […]
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Tue 10 August 2021: Hundreds of thousands of civilians face “emergency levels of hunger” in two regions that were recently drawn into the violent conflict in northern Ethiopia, the UN said Monday. The warning from the World food Programme (WFP) came as the war continued to expand and officials reported fresh civilian casualties in the […]
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Mon 09 August 2021: Some 8.1 million children in Yemen need emergency educational assistance due to the conflict in the country, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said yesterday. UNICEF explained on Twitter that this is a huge increase compared to the 1.1 million children who needed educational aid before the war. “The war must […]
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