Category: Africa

Sat 29 June 2019: After covering 8,800 kilometers (5,470 miles) by bike from London, a South African cyclist has arrived in Istanbul to raise global awareness of autism. Grant Cameron-Smith, 56, also known on social media as “CrazyBikeGuy,” began his challenging journey on March 13, peddling towards Turkey to draw attention to the plight of […]

Thu 27 June 2019: A team of six South African undergraduate students has won first prize at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) in Frankfurt, Germany. The competition, which ran from 16 to 19 June 2019, challenged teams to design, build, and run the best-performing computer cluster. The South African team consisted of four University of […]

Wed 26 June 2019: Bilateral relations between Rwanda and Turkey are strong and growing, says Richard Sezibera on visit to capital Ankara Cooperation between Turkey and the east African nation of Rwanda is growing and has strong potential, according to Rwanda’s foreign minister. In an exclusive interview with Anadolu Agency on Tuesday, Richard Sezibera said […]

Tue 25 June 2019: BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese development projects in Africa must be sustainable, the government’s top diplomat told senior African ministers on Tuesday, as he denounced “outside forces” who seek to vilify cooperation by accusing China of creating debt traps. Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged $60 billion to African nations at a China-Africa […]

Sat 22 June 2019: JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South African pay-television firm MultiChoice Group is planning to lay off more than 2,000 workers in South Africa in a shake-up of its customer care service, the company said on Friday. MultiChoice, which competes with Netflix in online streaming via Showmax, said in a statement it is launching […]

Fri 21 June 2019: CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa pledged on Thursday to speed up 230 billion rand ($16.11 billion) of support for ailing power utility Eskom, which he said was too vital to the economy to be allowed to fail. In his first state of the nation address since leading […]

Thu 20 June 2019: An elephant carcass lies at the edge of a field in Legotlhwana village, northeast Botswana — evidence of the desperation and anger felt by a farmer whose crops have been repeatedly destroyed. Ishmael Simasiku, 71, indignantly recounts how he was guarding his field as he does every night when an elephant broke […]

Tue 18 June 2019: More than 27,000 people have been killed in attacks in northeastern Nigeria since 2009, the United Nations said. “The humanitarian crisis in northeast Nigeria is one of the most severe in the world and is first and foremost a protection crisis,” Edward Kallon, the UN humanitarian coordinator in Nigeria, said in […]