Fri 16 May 2025: The Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) opened a “Safe Home” in Port Sudan on Thursday to support women and girls affected by the ongoing conflict in Sudan since April 15, 2023, Anadolu reports. Launched under Turkiye’s “Year of the Family” initiative, the center was opened in coordination with Sudan’s Red Sea […]
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Thu 15 May 2025: RSF drone strikes on Port Sudan have raised regional tensions and put a spotlight on the country’s booming gold economy. On May 4, Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) launched a barrage of suicide drones at Port Sudan, the army’s de facto wartime capital on the Red Sea. The Sudanese Armed […]
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Thu 15 May 2025: Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok is under scrutiny for repeatedly referencing the “white genocide” in South Africa – a right-wing conspiracy theory – even in responses to unrelated queries. The chatbot, a product of Musk’s AI company xAI, told users it was “instructed by my creators” to accept the genocide “as […]
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Wed 14 May 2025: The official unemployment rate has crept up by 1% to reach 32.9% in the first quarter of 2025. This according to Statistics South Africa’s (Stats SA) Quarterly Labour Force Survey released on Tuesday morning. “There was a decrease of 291 000 in the number of employed persons to 16.8 million from […]
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Tue 13 May 2025: Eskom has announced that it will implement Stage 2 load shedding during evening peak from 4pm today until 10pm on Thursday evening. The power utility explained that the move is aimed at managing “limited generation capacity and to ensure continued supply during the working days”. “This decision follows the delayed return […]
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Tue 13 May 2025: Move comes as US administration largely closes refugee admissions from countries experiencing widespread violence and poverty. A group of 59 white Afrikaners from South Africa has arrived in the United States as part of a refugee programme set up by the administration of US President Donald Trump to offer sanctuary from what Trump […]
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Mon 12 May 2025: A group of 49 white South Africans has departed for the United States after being granted refugee status by the Trump administration. Johannesburg – A chartered flight carrying 49 white South Africans, identified as Afrikaners, departed for the United States on Sunday. This group is the first to take up an […]
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Mon 12 May 2025: Army aircraft were reportedly hovering above as the killings took place, showing command control of the operation. At least 130 civilians belonging to the Fulani ethnic group were killed by Burkina Faso’s army and allied militias near the western town of Solenzo in March, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said. The […]
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Sun 11 May 2025: At least 62 people were confirmed dead and 50 remain missing after severe floods swept through villages along Lake Tanganyika in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern South Kivu province, officials said Saturday. The deluge struck around 5 a.m. local time (0300GMT) Friday, when surging waters engulfed the village of Kasaba […]
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Sat 10 May 2025: Africa is a continent rich in natural resources with a young population. African nations in theory have the potential to transform their economies. But many of them are facing mountains of debt. Africa’s external debt climbed to more than $650bn last year. More than half of African countries are either in […]
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