Tue 13 January 2026: The Department of Health has urged parents and caregivers to immediately discontinue the use of the affected Nestlé NAN products, in accordance with the National Consumer Commission recall notice. The product (Special Pro HA Infant Formula 0-12 months, batch number 51660742F3 and best before date 15 December 2026) is intended for the […]
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Tue 13 January 2026: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today: ◼️ Historic 88% pass rate: More than 900 000 full time and part time candidates wrote the matric examinations at approximately 6 000 centres across the country, making it the largest cohort to sit for the NSC exams. Of these, over 656 000 learners […]
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Mon 12 January 2026: Sudan’s government officially returned to the capital Khartoum on Sunday for the first time since the outbreak of war with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in April 2023, Prime Minister Kamel Idris said. Speaking to a crowd upon his arrival from Port Sudan, where the government had been operating as a […]
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Mon 12 January 2026: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today: ◼️ Washington may revive AGOA this week: The US House of Representatives is set to vote this week on a bill to extend a key preferential trade deal with Africa for three years. The bill passed a committee vote in December with strong bipartisan […]
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Somaliland Presidential Office on January 6, 2026 shows Somaliland’s President Abdirahman Abdullahi Mohamed, right, posing for a photograph with Israel’s Foreign Minister Gideon Saar, left, at the Presidential Palace in Hargeisa. Sun 11 January 2026: Defence minister says Somalia has ‘confirmed information’ that Israel plans to forcibly move Palestinians to Somaliland. Somalia’s Defence Minister Ahmed […]
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Sat 10 January 2026: South Africa on Saturday began naval drills with Russia, Iran and China, describing the manoeuvres off its coast as not merely a show of force but a vital response to rising maritime tensions. The week?long ‘Will for Peace 2026’ exercises come just days after the United States seized a Russian?flagged oil […]
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Sat 10 January 2026: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today: ◼️ SA defends naval drills with Iran, Russia as ‘essential’: The drills, led by China, were more than a military exercise and a statement of intent among the BRICS group of emerging nations, Captain Nndwakhulu Thomas Thamaha, South Africa’s joint taskforce commander, told the […]
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Fri 09 January 2026: Fierce fighting and global funding cuts have pushed more than 33 million people towards starvation. Millions of people in Sudan are in urgent need of humanitarian help, aid organisations have warned, as the war in the east African state marked its 1,000th day. Fierce fighting and global funding cuts have pushed […]
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Fri 09 January 2026: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today: ◼️ SA to host BRICS naval exercise amid strained relationship with the US: Chinese and Iranian warships are docked off the coast of South Africa for planned military exercises that officials said were also meant to involve Russia. The presence of the countries, which […]
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Mariam (pseudonym), a survivor of rape allegedly committed by the RSF, recounts her ordeal to Al Jazeera Arabic’s correspondent Asma Mohammed, January 6 [Screenshot/Al Jazeera] Thu 08 January 2026: In exclusive testimonies, women recount harrowing attacks by paramilitary forces as a senior doctor reveals that 14 female infants have been raped. In Sudan, victims of […]
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