Thu 06 May 2021: The United Nations has released 65 million US Dollars for the humanitarian response in Ethiopia. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in a statement on Thursday that it has released some $65 million to assist more than 16 million people in Ethiopia, including in the embattled […]
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Thu 06 May 2021: The international criminal court has sentenced a former militia leader and child soldier from Uganda to 25 years in prison after he was found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity in a landmark judgment. In February this year, Ongwen, 46, commander of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), which wreaked havoc in […]
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Wed 05 May 2021: Young Turks in South Africa are fighting anti-Turkish propaganda by the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO), the group behind the defeated 2016 coup in Turkey. There are groups in South Africa which “report news against Turkey meant to damage the image of our country,” said Hasan Huseyin Yigit, head of the Turkish-South […]
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Wed 05 May 2021: President Cyril Ramaphosa will use his reply to questions in the National Assembly, to provide an update on progress with the country’s COVID-19 vaccination programme. The President will outline details of the country’s vaccination programme following the resumption of the vaccination of health workers, in the same week as the first […]
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Wed 05 May 2021: South Africa’s teams remain on high alert to survey, detect and contain the spread of COVID-19 in general, with heightened awareness of travellers from countries where variants of concern (VOCs) are dominating. “We confirm that the B.1.617 variant, circulating widely in India, has not been detected; however, the genomics teams are […]
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Wed 05 May 2021: In what would be called a rare case, a 25-year-old woman in Mali has given birth to nine babies ‘nonuplets’ in Morocco. A young Malian woman became a phenomenon in a single day by safely giving birth to nine babies at once at a hospital in Morocco on Tuesday. Halima Cisse, […]
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Tue 04 May 2021: Health Minister Zweli Mkhize has assured the public that South Africa is on high alert for the B.1.617 Coronavirus variant. “All our ports of entry employ stringent containment procedures to minimise the importation of COVID-19,” he said, adding that government remained on high alert to screen passengers and test those who […]
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Tue 04 May 2021: The Libyan Muslim Brotherhood announced Sunday that it has converted into a non-governmental organization. In a written statement, the organization said it has changed its name to the Resurrection and Reform Society. “We declare to all Libyans that, with the grace and help of Allah, the community has turned into an […]
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Mon 03 May 2021: The National Institute for Communicable Diseases is refuting claims that the new COVID-19 variant in India has been detected in South Africa. This as COVID-19 infections in India continues to rise sharply. The institute says South Africa has not reported the B.1.617 variant. The NICD’s Professor Adrian Puren has the latest […]
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Mon 03 May 2021: German officials say they have reached an agreement with Nigeria to return a share of plundered artifacts known as Benin Bronzes. Thousands of plaques and sculptures were looted from the ancient Kingdom of Benin — now southern Nigeria, not the modern nation of Benin — by British soldiers in an 1897 raid, […]
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