Thu 29 April 2021: The Regent of the Zulu Nation and wife of the late King Goodwill Zwelithini, Her Majesty Queen Shiyiwe Mantfombi Dlamini Zulu has passed on. Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi, traditional prime minister to the Zulu monarch and nation, confirmed the news on Thursday night. “It is with the deepest shock and distress that […]
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Thu 29 April 2021: The calamitous COVID-19 outbreak in India is a wake-up call for Africa. African nations generally do not have sufficient numbers of healthcare workers, hospital beds or oxygen supplies – and the continent of 1.3 billion would be even more overwhelmed than India if cases surged in a similar way, said John […]
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Thu 29 April 2021: The Extraordinary Summit of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Organ on Politics, Defence and Security which was scheduled for today in Mozambique has been postponed. “This was after the leaders agreed on a postponement as a result of the unavailability of the SADC Organ Chairperson, His Excellency, President Dr Mokgweetsi […]
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Thu 29 April 2021: Professor Salim Abdool Karim has been appointed to the newly formed World Health Organisation (WHO) Science Council. According to the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC), the Science Council was established earlier this month to guide WHO’s science research. The nine-member team comprises internationally renowned experts from around the world, who […]
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Wed 28 April 2021: The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) will introduce the Authenticated Collections (AC)/DebiCheck project from 1 May 2021 as part of its modernisation of the national payment system (NPS). This project, which is a first of its kind, seeks to address the increasing levels of abuse in the debit order payment system, […]
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Wed 28 April 2021: The United Nations says tens of thousands of Mogadishu residents fled their homes this week after rival groups of soldiers clashed in the streets on Sunday amid a standoff over President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed’s extended stay in power. The UN has raised concerns after recent violence forced up to 100,000 people […]
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Tue 27 April 2021: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken during held a virtual meeting with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari and Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyeama dueing which he addressed security matters and the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, State Department spokesperson Ned price said in a readout of the conversation on Tuesday. “They discussed […]
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Tue 27 April 2021: The number of people infected with coronavirus in Africa reached over 4.5 million, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday. At least 120,420 people have died, while more than 4 million patients have recuperated across the continent so far, it said. South Africa recorded 1.6 million cases, Morocco […]
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Tue 27 April 2021: United Arab Emirates has begun its logistical flights to support the France-led international alliance’s efforts in “combating terrorism along the African Sahel region,” the Emirates’ Ministry of Defence announced yesterday. “The first flight departed Abu Dhabi in the presence of the ministry’s Commander of Joint Operations at Saleh Mohammad Saleh Al-Ameri, […]
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Tue 27 April 2021: Three brothers from the influential Gupta family in South Africa have been placed on a new list of 22 people sanctioned by the UK government on Monday for their alleged involvement in some of the world’s most serious cases of corruption and to block them channelling money through UK banks or […]
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