Thu 09 January 2025: South Africa – Reports of a human metapneumovirus (HMPV) outbreak in China have sparked global concern. Still, experts are urging people not to panic. Dr E.V. Rapiti, a family physician, reassured the public that there is no need for alarm. He emphasized that while the virus can lead to complications and illnesses […]
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Thu 09 January 2025: The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) has called on members of the public to take part in the Citizen Science for Water Photo Story Competition, which is aimed at communicating matters of water action in creative ways. The South African National Committee (SANC) for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and […]
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Thu 09 January 2025: We all need to re-embrace the dream of African unity and demand freedom of movement for all Africans on the continent. Speaking at the Africa CEO Forum in Kigali, Rwanda, on May 17, Africa’s richest person, Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote, complained that he faces far more obstacles travelling around Africa than […]
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Wed 08 January 2025: Chad’s President Mahamat Déby has expressed his discontent with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron after the latter accused African leaders of ingratitude. Déby made his comment yesterday on Facebook, a day after Macron criticised what he claimed was Chad’s failure to thank the French president after its military support for African […]
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Wed 08 January 2025: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says US committed to ‘holding accountable those responsible for these atrocities’. The United States has determined that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied militias have committed genocide in Sudan, announcing sanctions targeting the group’s leader. In a statement on Tuesday, US Secretary of State Antony […]
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Tue 07 January 2025: More than 350 elephants in Botswana died from toxic waterholes contaminated with cyanobacteria in 2020. Scientists now think they know why. An investigation into the sudden deaths of at least 350 elephants in Botswana in 2020 has revealed the cause was almost certainly a “toxic brew” of open water tainted by […]
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Mon 06 January 2025: European colonisation of Africa was not only about armed conquest, massacres and the exploitation of resources. It was also about the appropriation of spiritual and political symbols. It led to the erasure of a social, cultural, symbolic world. A 2024 book, Fifteen Colonial Thefts: A Guide to Looted African Heritage in Museums, […]
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Mon 06 January 2025: For more than 15 years, Nigeria’s armed forces have battled Boko Haram and groups affiliated with ISIL (ISIS), with millions affected and thousands killed. Despite government claims of “technical defeat”, rebel attacks persist, raising critical questions about strategy and accountability. General Christopher Musa, Nigeria’s chief of defence staff, talks about it […]
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Mon 06 January 2025: Thabo Bester is South Africa’s most notorious con man. In 2012, he was locked away for life for murder and rape. But when in 2022, a fire suddenly breaks out in Bester’s cell, and nothing but a charred body remains, the country’s in shock. Is that the end of Thabo Bester? […]
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Mon 06 January 2025: Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy, convicted twice in separate cases since leaving office, goes on trial Monday charged with accepting illegal campaign financing in an alleged pact with the late Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi. Sarkozy’s career has been shadowed by legal troubles since he lost the 2012 presidential election but he is an […]
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