Sun 09 February 2025: Botswana’s Ministry of Health is scrambling to mitigate the impact of the US government’s decision to suspend support for civil society organizations (CSOs) and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that provide critical HIV/AIDS services. To cushion the blow, the ministry is rolling out emergency measures to ensure continuity of care for affected patients. […]
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Sun 09 February 2025: Nujoma was revered for leading his country to independence from apartheid South Africa in 1990. Sam Nujoma, the revolutionary leader who guided Namibia to independence from apartheid South Africa in 1990 and served as its first president for 15 years, has died at 95. Hailed as Namibia’s “founding father”, Nujoma passed […]
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Sun 09 February 2025: South Africa’s Afrikaner community Saturday turned down an offer by US President Donald Trump to resettle them as refugees in the US, following claims of racial discrimination. “We don’t want to move elsewhere, and we are not going to ask our children now to move to another country. We have interests […]
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Sun 09 February 2025: The number of internally displaced persons (IDP) in the Horn of Africa rose to 20.75 million at the end of 2024, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Tuesday in a report released in Nairobi, capital of Kenya. The United Nations migration agency said that the figure increased from 20.42 million […]
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Sat 08 February 2025: More than 50 people were killed near Mali’s northeastern city of Gao on Friday after armed assailants ambushed their convoy and its army escort, a local official and residents said. The attackers struck near the village of Kobe, around 30 km (19 miles) from Gao in a region where affiliates of […]
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Sat 08 February 2025: According to a study conducted by Paris-Saclay University in France, large Saharan dust clouds that covered Europe in March 2022 contained an unexpected component: radioactive traces from nuclear tests conducted by the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 1960s. The researchers noted that the detected radioactivity levels were well below harmful thresholds for […]
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Sat 08 February 2025: US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order cutting US financial assistance to South Africa, citing concerns over its land expropriation law, its genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), and closer ties with Iran, the White House announced on Friday. “The United States cannot support […]
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Fri 07 February 2025: US president Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the US from the World Health Organization is threatening funding for critical health programmes like HIV/Aids and tuberculosis in different parts of the world, including Nigeria. The Conversation Africa’s Adejuwon Soyinka asked professor of virology and former WHO Africa regional virologist Oyewale Tomori why Nigeria is heavily dependent on US […]
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Fri 07 February 2025: The National Minimum Wage (NMW) rate is set to increase from R27.58 to R28.79 per hour, from 1 March 2025. Employment and Labour Minister, Nomakhosazana Meth made the announcement on Wednesday. The increment is in line with the National Minimum Wage Act, introduced by South Africa for implementation, in 2019. In […]
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Fri 07 February 2025: Niger’s government has terminated its agreement with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), ordering the closure of ICRC offices and the immediate departure of foreign staff, as stated in a verbal note on January 31. This move comes amidst growing tensions between Niger’s ruling military junta and international organizations […]
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