Tue 08 October 2024: Zambia signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with China on Monday to establish the southern African nation’s first cholera vaccine manufacturing plant. The project’s first phase will cost $37 million, with about three million doses expected to be produced through a joint venture between Zambia’s Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) and Jijia […]
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Mon 07 October 2024: Tunisia’s President Kais Saied has won a second term with 90.69% of the votes in the presidential election held on Sunday, the country’s electoral commission announced on Monday. At a press conference in the capital Tunis, the head of Tunisia’s Independent High Authority for Elections (ISIE), Farouk Bouasker, said the voter […]
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Mon 07 October 2024: Some civil society organisations in Malawi, on Monday, asked the Malawi government to revisit its stand on the raging war in Gaza “because its current approach is against its values of peace and respect for humanity”, Anadolu Agency reports. The stance of the southern African nation was a clear demonstration that it is […]
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Mon 07 October 2024: South Africa is immersed in a “just energy transition” from a fossil fuel-based energy system to a cleaner, low-carbon energy system. This new system will be based primarily on renewable energy, such as solar, wind and green hydrogen. Such a transition is deeply contested. Those with direct and indirect commercial interests in […]
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Many migrant workers have had to sleep on the streets as shelters refuse to take them in [Courtesy of Dara Foi’Elle, Migrant Workers’ Action] Sun 06 October 2024: Some of them were born and raised in Lebanon, but in war they have no place in the authorities’ support programmes. Beirut, Lebanon – Over the last 11 […]
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Sun 06 October 2024: In a bold move to improve human-wildlife coexistence and protect the fragile ecosystems of central Kenya, the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) embarked on an extensive elephant translocation operation on Thursday. The initiative aims to address the growing conflict between humans and elephants, while enhancing wildlife conservation in the region. The operation […]
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Sat 05 October 2024: A court in South Africa on Friday sentenced a 40-year-old serial rapist to 42 life terms in prison after he was found guilty of several counts including rape, sexual assault, and kidnapping among others. Nkosinathi Emmanuel Phakathi, commonly known as the “Benoni Serial Rapist,” was found guilty in November 2022 of […]
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Fri 04 October 2024: More than 1,000 people have died and at least 740,000 displaced as floods wreak havoc across West and Central Africa, affecting over 5 million people in 16 countries, the UN said on Thursday. Most parts of the central and west African region as well as the Sahel have been experiencing severe […]
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Fri 04 October 2024: Pretoria recalled all its diplomats from Tel Aviv last November for consultations over Israel’s war on Gaza Israel also recalled its envoy from Pretoria days later ‘for consultations’ amid the growing diplomatic rift between the two countries over the conflict in Gaza ‘South Africa is trying its best with limited resources […]
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File photo. Fri 04 October 2024: According to local authorities, 87 people were killed when a ferry sank on Lake Kivu in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The ferry, coming from the town of Minova in the South Kivu province, capsized near the port of Kituku, on the outskirts of Goma, capital […]
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