Wed 05 February 2025: Malawi’s President Lazarus Chakwera has ordered defense forces to begin preparations for a withdrawal of its troops from eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a statement said on Wednesday. The Malawi troops are part of a contingent of soldiers from the Southern African regional bloc deployed in Congo to help it tackle […]
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Informal shacks in a majority-Black township are seen next to an upmarket private estate in Cape Town. Land and spatial inequality still plague South Africa 30 years after the end of apartheid [Nic Bothma/Reuters] Wed 05 February 2025: US president has threatened to cut funding to South Africa over alleged land grabs. But what’s the […]
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Wed 05 February 2025: The Democratic Republic of Congo called for the withdrawal of M23 rebels as well as Rwandan forces from the eastern city of Goma. “We need to see concrete action, what really this means is to have the evidence that this is not a cosmetic fix,” Foreign Minister Therese Kayikwamba Wagner told […]
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Tue 04 February 2025: Botswana announced on Monday that it has reached an agreement with De Beers, the world’s leading diamond company, to extract and sell diamonds, bringing confidence to the country’s diamond-dependent economy. “The government of Botswana and De Beers Group are pleased to announce the successful conclusion of negotiations focused on establishing a […]
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Tue 04 February 2025: Advance payments to victims requiring urgent medical treatment not the end of it. Tiger Brands may still have to pay victims of a deadly listeriosis outbreak that occurred more than seven years ago. The company faces a class action lawsuit from victims and their relatives. The outbreak was traced to an […]
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Tue 04 February 2025: Electrical fixtures, appliances, food for learners, bathroom fittings, fencing, windows, and security equipment were stolen or damaged at schools in the Western Cape over the summer holidays. Despite increased security measures at 480 schools this year, the Western Cape Government reported a concerning rise in burglary and vandalism. Forty-seven incidents were […]
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Tue 04 February 2025: Over 900 people were killed in the last two weeks in the eastern city of Goma of the Democratic Republic of Congo amid fighting between M23 rebels and the government forces, the World Health Organization said. In a statement late Monday, the UN health agency said that around 2,880 injured people […]
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Tue 04 February 2025: The Alliance Fleuve Congo, a rebel alliance in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, which includes M23 rebels, has declared a ceasefire starting Feb.4, it said in a statement late Monday. The group said the ceasefire was for humanitarian reasons blaming the government in Kinshasa for allegedly causing it. The M23 […]
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Mon 03 February 2025: The South African government has again asked Taiwan to relocate its representative office out of Pretoria, the diplomatic capital of South Africa, Taiwan’s Foreign Ministry said. The South African government last month “again sent a letter to our representative office in South Africa, demanding that our office move out of the […]
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Mon 03 February 2025: A senior commander of Islamic State’s Somalia wing was captured on Monday, police and state media said, two days after the IS leadership was targeted by US air strikes and as security forces continue a weeks-long offensive against the group, Reuters has reported. In the past few years, Somalia’s IS franchise has become […]
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