Fri 11 September 2020: ‘There is need to assist the people with land where the pipelines are going to be constructed,’ says human rights group KAMPALA, Uganda – Two research reports on oil released Thursday highlight major risks of oil projects by French energy company Total in Uganda and Tanzania. Oil from Uganda is to […]
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Thu 10 September 2020: The 28-year-old woman says she was accosted by a white man sneering “Jy slamse gemors, dis f$%# warm (you Muslim rubbish, it’s F#$% hot)” A woman from Paarl in the Western Cape is traumatised after allgedly being attacked by a man for wearing her hijab and niqab. “I was en route […]
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Thu 10 September 2020: President Cyril Ramaphosa says Bizos was among architects of South Africa’s constitution JOHANNESBURG- South African anti-apartheid stalwart and human rights lawyer George Bizos died at the age of 92, President Cyril Ramaphosa confirmed Wednesday night. “I have just received news that legal eagle of our country George Bizos has passed away,’’ […]
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Wed 09 September 2020: JOHANNESBURG – South Africa’s governing African National Congress (ANC) party on Tuesday condemned disparaging remarks allegedly attributed to US President Donald Trump “staining” the late President Nelson Mandela. In his soon-to-be published book, Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen alleges that Trump said Mandela, South Africa’s first Black president and a […]
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Tue 08 September 2020: Statistics body attributes contraction to impact of COVID-19 lockdown restrictions JOHANNESBURG – South Africa’s gross domestic product (GDP) contracted 51.0% in the second quarter of 2020, the country’s statistics body announced on Tuesday. Statistics South Africa attributed the decline in GDP to the impact of COVID-19 lockdown restrictions which were imposed […]
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Tue 08 September 2020: GAROWE, Somalia – The Somali military killed on Tuesday at least 14 al-Shabaab militants, including an operational commander, when they attacked a government-controlled town in southern Somalia, an official said. Ismail Mukhtar Oronjo, a Somali government spokesman, told Anadolu Agency that Somali national army repulsed the attack in Bal’ad, Middle Shabelle […]
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Tue 08 September 2020: NIAMEY, Niger – An influential 15-nation West African bloc on Monday urged coup leaders in Mali to restore democratic institutions, according to a statement. The call was made by Issoufou Mahamadou, Niger’s president, at the 57th session of the extraordinary summit of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). The socio-political […]
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Mon 07 September 2020: A second mass grave has been found in Libya’s Tarhuna, a province that has recently been liberated from militias loyal to warlord General Khalifa Haftar, the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA) announced yesterday. According to local media, five corpses have been found within the grave; the identities of which are […]
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Mon 07 September 2020: Death toll surpasses 31k, more than 1M patients recover, according to Africa CDC The number of people who have contracted the novel coronavirus in Africa has reached 1.29 million, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said on Monday. At least 31,283 people have died of the virus across the […]
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Mon 07 September 2020: President said new bill will help restore the confidence of the country’s women that the law is there to protect them JOHANNESBURG – South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said Monday the country will tighten laws on gender based violence and sexual offences which have been widespread in the rainbow nation. Writing […]
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