Category: Africa

Turkey’s state-run aid agency TIKA arranges sewing workshop, provides machines to Mozambican women in capital Maputo Turkey’s state aid agency, the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) on Tuesday set up two sewing workshops in Mozambique, an East African country to provide employment opportunities to women in the capital Maputo. The sewing workshops were inaugurated […]

Mon 30 September 2019: The South Afrcian Energy Department has announced that the price of 95 octane petrol will increase by 18 cents per litre from Wednesday, 2 October. This brings the price of 95 octane to R16.21 c/l inland. This is the eighth consecutive hike since the beginning of the year. The increase was […]

Fri 27 September 2019: Grade 9 may soon be an exit point for schooling as the Department of Basic Education works on introducing a general education certificate. During her address at the South African Democratic Teachers’ Union congress at the Nasrec Expo Centre on Thursday, Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga said a draft framework for […]

Thu 26 September 2019: Zimbabwe: A Zimbabwean doctor desperate to leave the country for medical treatment after his recent abduction has been blocked after police approached the High Court asserting he is “unfit to travel.” The head of the Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association, Dr. Peter Magombeyi, was freed last week after disappearing for several days. […]

Wed 25 September 2019: South Africans have been warned to withdraw enough money ahead of the nationwide strike in the banking sector on Friday as ATMs and banking services will be shut down. The country’s biggest financial union Sasbo said it would bring the industry to a standstill when it protests retrenchments. Cape Town, Johannesburg, Durban, Port Elizabeth and […]

Tue 24 September 2019: Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, and her husband, Prince Harry, have visited South Africa’s oldest mosque as their first official tour as a family continues for a second day.   Their stop at the 225-year-old Auwal Mosque in Cape Town on Tuesday includes a viewing of the first known manuscript of […]

Tue 24 September 2019: Eight newborns were killed Tuesday in a fire in the maternity wing of an Algerian hospital near the border with Tunisia, authorities said. “We managed to rescue 11 babies, 107 women and 28 staff” after the 3:50 am (0250 GMT) fire in the hospital in Oued Souf, 500 kilometers (300 miles) […]

Mon 23 September 2019: South Africa’s largest financial union Sasbo will embark on a major banking strike on Friday (27 September). Banking union Sasbo said South Africans should brace themselves for a complete standstill in the financial services sector as it embarked on a strike. Workers affiliated to the union will go on strike in Gauteng, the […]

Mon 23 September 2019: At least seven pupils have died after a classroom collapsed on them a private school in the capital Nairobi on Monday. The learners aged between eight and 15 years met their deaths at Precious Talent School on Ngong Road as they undertook morning preps. Several others were injured in the tragedy […]

Sat 21 September 2019: Health authorities in Democratic Republic of Congo said on Saturday that they plan to introduce a second Ebola vaccine, manufactured by Johnson & Johnson, to counter the second-worst outbreak of the virus in history. The team overseeing Congo’s Ebola response did not say when exactly the J&J vaccine would be introduced. […]