Fri 25 March 2021: African finance ministers have called on the G20 countries to suspend debt repayment for low- and middle-income countries. The call was made in a communique issued on late Tuesday, following the 53rd session of the Conference of African Ministers of Finance under the auspices of the United Nations Economic Commission for […]
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Thu 25 March 2021: The COVID-19 Sisonke vaccination roll out programme has been extended to 54 vaccine sites across the country, Acting Minister in the Presidency, Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, announced on Thursday. Briefing the media on the outcomes of the Cabinet meeting held on Wednesday, Ntshavheni said the programme has to date vaccinated more than 207 […]
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Thu 25 March 2021: The South African Health Department has confirmed that Professor Salim Abdool Karim has stepped down from the Ministerial Advisory Committee (MAC) on COVID-19, with effect from 23 March 2021. His resignation is exactly one year since he chaired the committee. Abdool Karim led a team of top scientists, who have been […]
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Thu 25 March 2021: French energy giant Total will resume construction at its $20 billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) development in Mozambique after the government increased security, the company said Wednesday. In January, after an attack nearby, Total withdrew most of its workforce from its site in Mozambique’s northernmost province of Cabo Delgado, where there […]
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Thu 25 March 2021: Gunmen have assassinated a mid-tier leader of warlord Haftar’s – who was wanted by the ICC for war crimes. Mahmoud al Werfalli was shot on Wednesday from a car outside a hospital in Benghazi alongside two of his bodyguards, military sources said, amid growing friction between rival factions in eastern Libya. […]
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Thu 25 March 2021: Research has shown that Africa experienced a 30 percent rise in infections in its second wave of coronavirus last year but implemented fewer public health measures than in the first. Writing in The Lancet medical journal, researchers said a loosening of public health measures such as distancing and intermittent lockdowns probably […]
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Wed 24 March 2021: The Presidency on Wednesday confirmed that President Cyril Ramaphosa will appear before the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture next month. The President will give evidence in his capacity as President and former Deputy President of the Republic and as President and former Deputy President of the African […]
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Tue 23 March 2021: For the last decade, poultry production in South Africa has been static – despite the fact that consumption has continued to grow. This has happened because imported poultry has come into the economy in large quantities, displacing South African meat, especially at the lower end. In an effort to address threats […]
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Tue 23 March 2021: Attackers on motorbikes have raided several villages in Niger’s Tahoua region have left 137 people dead, the government has said, in another massacre that has underscored the huge security challenges facing new President Mohamed Bazoum. The gunmen on Sunday attacked the villages of Intazayene, Bakorat and Wistane, located near the border with Mali, […]
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Mon 22 March 2021: Former Congolese government minister Guy Brice Parfait Kolelas, the main rival of outgoing leader Denis Sassou Nguesso in the presidential election, died due to COVID-19 complications before the vote count has ended, media reported. On Sunday, the Republic of the Congo voted in an election to choose its next president. Longtime […]
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