Fri 16 April 2021: South Africa launched on Friday an electronic platform where citizens aged 60 and older can register to get vaccinated against COVID-19, marking the first time in the country’s democratic history that a major public health campaign is supported by a one-for-all digital system. Health Minister Zweli Mkhize described the launch of […]
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Thu 15 April 2021: President Cyril Ramaphosa on Wednesday announced Lieutenant-General Rudzani Maphwanya as the new Chief of the South African National Defence Force and the Military Command. Lieutenant-General Maphwanya replaces General Solly Shoke who retires at the end of this month. He will assume his new responsibilities on 1 June 2021 where he will […]
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Thu 15 April 2021: When Ethiopian migrant Jamal Hussein boarded a UN-run repatriation flight out of Yemen, he ended a journey through the war-torn country that he had hoped would take him to a better life in wealthy Saudi Arabia, Reuters reports. Many more migrants are also calling it quits, reversing a longstanding and often perilous flow […]
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Thu 15 April 2021: Somalia has accused some of its foreign backers of undermining its sovereignty after the embattled government was threatened with sanctions over a decision to extend its mandate by two years. President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed on Wednesday signed into law a “special resolution” extending his time in office, despite his term expiring […]
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Wed 14 April 2021: President Cyril Ramaphosa has wished the South African Muslim community a blessed Holy Month of Ramadan. Ramadan, which begins today, is a period during which Muslims around the world engage intensively in prayerful devotion, fasting, other forms of abstention and acts of charity. “I wish all Muslims well for this Holy […]
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Wed 14 April 2021: Some 20 children died from a nursery school on Tuesday in a fire that ravaged the establishment, located in the Nigerien capital Niamey, according to local media on Wednesday. “Twenty-one classrooms in straw huts caught fire. Around 20 children were trapped in the blaze,” fire service commander Sidi Mohamed said on […]
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Tue 13 April 2021: South Africa on Tuesday suspended the rollout of the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine over potential blood clot risks reported by the United States, the health minister said. “We have determined to voluntarily suspend our roll-out… I humbly call for calm and patience as we ensure that you will continue to […]
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Tue 13 April 2021: The Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development has confirmed the outbreak of the avian influenza on a commercial farm in Ekurhuleni, Gauteng. In a statement, the department said about 300 birds had died from the virus on the commercial chicken-layer farm. “The samples from this farm that were sent […]
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Tue 13 April 2021: Twitter Inc will open its first African office in Ghana, it said on Monday, as the social media company seeks to make inroads in some of the world’s fastest-growing markets. Africa is under-tapped terrain for technology firms, with internet use per population at around 39% against a world average of 59% […]
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Mon 12 April 2021: President Cyril Ramaphosa says South Africa must forge a new economy in a new global reality. “We have to both recover the ground that we have lost due to the Coronavirus pandemic, and to gain new ground by placing our economy on a fundamentally different growth trajectory,” President Ramaphosa said in […]
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