Wed 09 December 2020: South Africa’s economy rebounded strongly in the third quarter as coronavirus restrictions were eased, with mining and manufacturing leading an expansion across all sectors. Africa’s most advanced economy was in recession before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, with a strict lockdown from the end of March leading to a deeper economic contraction. […]
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Wed 09 December 2020: Despite the Ethiopian government’s deal with the UN, humanitarian access to Ethiopia’s Tigray region “is still significantly constrained,” an aid group said Tuesday. “Children, women and men in Tigray have now borne the brunt of this conflict for more than a month without any emergency assistance from outside the region,” Jan […]
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Tue 08 December 2020: The Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (dtic) and the National Cleaner Production Centre South Africa (NCPC-SA), in partnership with the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO), has launched the Global Eco-Industrial Parks Programme (GEIPP) in South Africa. GEIPP aims to demonstrate the viability and benefits of Eco-Industrial Park approaches in […]
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Tue 08 December 2020: Sudanese Foreign Minister-designate Omar Gamar Aldin confirmed that his country does not intend to “internationalise” the issue of the Grand Ethiopia Renaissance Dam at the present time, stressing that “the use of force in negotiations is unacceptable and we do not support it”. “Time is not on our side, given that […]
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Mon 07 December 2020: African leaders on Sunday held talks to review an ambitious plan for a conflict-free Africa as violent unrest escalates in parts of the continent. The Africa Union (AU) adopted in 2013 a plan to silence guns on the continent by the year 2020. Four years later the leaders signed off on […]
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Mon 07 December 2020: Zanzibar President Hussein Mwinyi appointed his opposition rival Seif Sharif Hamad as first vice president Sunday in a power-sharing deal likely to diffuse political tensions in the semi-autonomous archipelago with a troubled political history. The move comes barely a day after the opposition party Alliance for Change and Transparency-ACT-Wazalendo announced it […]
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Sun 06 December 2020: Sudan’s transitional government has expressed its opposition to a move by the head of the country’s ruling council to create a new body with broad powers as the country navigates its fragile transition to civilian rule. General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan leads the sovereign council, a military-civilian body established in August 2019 […]
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Sat 05 December 2020: ‘Adolf Hitler’ has been elected as a local councillor in Namibia – although it’s not quite what you might think. The new councillor, whose full name is Adolf Hitler Uunona, won 85% of the vote last Wednesday in the Ompundja constituency. He represents the SWAPO party, which began as a liberation […]
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Sat 05 December 2020: Morocco was among several other countries who voted in favour of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND)’s rescheduling cannabis and cannabis-related substances as a less dangerous drug. The vote was cast on Wednesday at Vienna during the CND’s 63rd session. The tightly contested poll which saw 27 votes in favour and […]
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Sat 05 December 2020: The US will pull out a “majority” of its troops from Somalia, the Pentagon said Friday, vowing the action is not a policy change. The Pentagon said Friday it is pulling most U.S. troops out of Somalia on President Donald Trump’s orders, continuing a post-election push by Trump to shrink U.S. […]
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