Sun 05 May 2024: Lubombo, Eswatini – In the heart of the Jilobi Forest, a biodiversity hotspot in Eswatini’s eastern region of Lubombo, the three chiefdoms inhabiting the territory had longstanding disputes, and tensions used to run high. But recently, an urge to preserve their shared land has caused them to retire their rivalry. “There were […]
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Sun 05 May 2024: UN’s World Food Program (WFP) on Friday sounded the alarm about the situation in Sudan, saying the African country is on the brink of becoming the “world’s largest hunger crisis”, Anadolu reports. Leni Kinzli, WFP’s spokesperson in Sudan, said at a virtual news conference that the agency is “warning that time is […]
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Sat 04 May 2024: Johannesburg, South Africa – For the first time in 30 years, South Africa’s governing party faces an electoral crisis with expectations that its support will dramatically reduce and it may lose its parliamentary majority in this month’s election. But even as the African National Congress (ANC) – which has been in power […]
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Fri 03 May 2024: Following torrential downpour of rain and flooding that ravaged East Africa, killing close to 400 people and displacing tens of thousands more, Kenya and Tanzania have been bracing for a cyclone. As per the most recent meteorological forecast, Cyclone Hidaya is gradually approaching Tanzania’s eastern coast and is predicted to make […]
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Fri 03 May 2024: Domestic rivalries and external players pollute the Sudanese information space. A year into the civil war in Sudan, the humanitarian costs have been staggering – but the news coverage has been minimal. A conflict on this scale should top the news agenda but it has been relegated to the back pages […]
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Thu 02 May 2024: An aquarium in Cape Town stretched beyond capacity with around 500 baby sea turtles that washed up on beaches due to an unusual powerful storm. Most of the small turtles are loggerheads, which are endangered and belong to the ocean. Instead, the majority of them will spend their first few months […]
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Wed 01 May 2024: British authorities have started to detain immigrants in preparation for them to be sent to Rwanda in the next nine to 11 weeks, the government said today, laying the groundwork for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s flagship immigration policy, Reuters reports. A law to pave the way for sending asylum seekers to Rwanda if […]
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Wed 01 May 2024: The United States has demanded that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) stop supporting parties to the conflict in Sudan amid the war that has been ongoing since April last year. The US Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, said yesterday that all countries, including the UAE, should stop supporting the warring […]
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Wed 01 May 2024: Chinese tech giant Huawei has teamed up with UNESCO’s Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) to launch a comprehensive digital literacy initiative in Morocco, aiming to improve the digital skills of 10,000 Moroccan educators by 2025. The initiative is part of a broader effort under the Global Education Coalition and the Global […]
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Wed 01 May 2024: The National Department of Health says it has noted with concern old and fake news about the COVID-19 Omicron XBB variant circulating on social media. These fake posts further advise people to wear face masks because of an allegedly “deadly and not easy-to-detect variant”. “This is a misleading message which first […]
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