Thu 09 July 2026: The death toll from the current Ebola virus disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has reached 600, according to data released late Wednesday by the country’s health authorities. Health Ministry data showed that the number of confirmed cases has reached 1,759 as community transmission continued. The outbreak of the […]
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Thu 09 July 2026: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Wednesday that Moscow wants to deepen cooperation with the Confederation of Sahel States (AES) in support of the bloc’s integration efforts and security priorities. Speaking at the opening of the second ministerial consultations between Russia and the AES in Niger, Lavrov said the two sides […]
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Thu 09 July 2026: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today:👇🏼 ◼️ South Africans living in small towns headed for serious trouble: His comments come after the National Treasury announced that it would temporarily withhold the equitable share transfers for July from 69 municipalities. The Treasury said the transfers would resume once the affected municipalities […]
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Wed 08 July 2026: France’s ambassador to South Africa says French authorities have closed their investigation into the death of former South African ambassador to France, Nathi Mthethwa, after concluding that he died by suicide, eNCA reported Mthethwa died in September last year after falling from the 22nd floor of the Hyatt Regency hotel in […]
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Wed 08 July 2026: The World Health Organization’s (WHO) representative in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Anne Ancia, said the country’s Ebola epidemic continues to spread and that its true scale has not yet been fully determined. Ancia made the remarks during the United Nations’ weekly press briefing in Geneva. She said the epidemic […]
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Wed 08 July 2026: Egypt coach Hossam Hassan on Tuesday claimed his side suffered an “unjust defeat” to Argentina in the FIFA World Cup round of 16 because of “marketing support” intended to keep the defending champions in the tournament. Hassan criticized French referee Francois Letexier after Egypt’s 3-2 defeat, saying the match lacked fairness […]
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Wed 08 July 2026: More than 5,500 children have been newly displaced by fighting over the strategic Sudanese city of el-Obeid, and thousands more are at risk, Save the Children has warned. “As families arrive in displacement sites and into local communities, they face increasingly difficult living conditions,” the international charity said in a statement. […]
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Wed 08 July 2026: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today: 👇🏼 ◼️ The Ramaphosa ‘snub’ that never was: The Presidency has dismissed reports that President Cyril Ramaphosa requested a state visit to Ghana, saying no such visit had been planned. The claims, first published by several Ghanaian media organisations before spreading across West Africa […]
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Tue 07 July 2026: Sierra Leone, Togo, Ghana, Nigeria and several more countries in West Africa are in the midst of an overlooked opioid crisis that’s crippling the population and devastating families. The drugs that are fueling this crisis aren’t made in makeshift labs, but imported by the millions from India’s pharmaceutical industry. For more […]
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Tue 07 July 2026: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today: 👇🏼 ◼️ Deportations threaten schooling for thousands of Zimbabwean pupils: “How will they prepare and sit for these critical examinations if they are forced to relocate now. Imagine after 11 years you have been doing Caps and in your final year of school forced […]
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