Israeli fighter jets hit several sites in Lebanon’s Odaisseh and Kafr Kila. (Twitter Screen grab – June 14, 2024) Sat 22 June 2024: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Friday he is profoundly concerned by escalating tensions between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah and that U.N. peacekeepers are working to calm the situation and prevent miscalculation. “One rash move […]
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Sat 22 June 2024: Niger’s military government has revoked the operating licence of French nuclear fuel producer Orano at one of the world’s biggest uranium mines, as it continues to cut ties with former colonial power France. State-owned Orano said on Thursday that it had been ordered out of the Imouraren mine in northern Niger […]
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Sat 22 June 2024: South Africa has identified six additional laboratory-confirmed cases of Mpox, taking the total number of cases from seven to 13 since the first case was reported last month. The Department of Health reported new infections in Gauteng and the Western Cape. The death toll is still at two. The first case […]
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Sat 22 June 2024: Eskom has obtained a court judgement against the City of Johannesburg (CoJ) and City Power for the payment of their R1.073 billion debt. According to Eskom, the city and its local power utility have been defaulting on their account since October last year. “When the matter was heard on 4 June […]
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Fri 21 June 2024: At least 200 people were injured and more than 100 arrested across Kenya in nationwide protests against government tax hike plans, rights groups have said. Five groups, including Amnesty International, said late on Thursday in a joint statement that at least 105 protesters had been arrested in a violent crackdown by riot police […]
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Fri 21 June 2024: Birth rates have dropped sharply in some of the world’s richest states and are likely to stay low as economic worries leave people weighing the costs of having children, a report from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development said. Many in OECD member countries were now choosing to have children […]
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World leaders pose for a photo during the Global Forum for Vaccine Sovereignty and Innovation at the French Foreign Ministry in Paris on June 20, 2024 Fri 21 June 2024: French President Emmanuel Macron has joined several African leaders to kick off a planned $1.1bn project to accelerate vaccine production in Africa, after the COVID-19 pandemic […]
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Renaldo Gouws / Youtube Fri 21 June 2024: South Africa’s centre-right Democratic Alliance (DA) party has suspended one of its lawmakers after an old video of the legislator using explicitly racist language resurfaced online. The suspension of the recently sworn-in member of parliament, Renaldo Gouws, on Thursday highlights the uneasy alliance between the DA and […]
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Fri 21 June 2024: Israeli security authorities ignored an intelligence document last September that predicted the Hamas attack of Oct. 7, an Israeli state-run media outlet reported on Monday. The report, revealed by the Israeli Broadcasting Authority, claimed the document, dated Sept. 19 – about three weeks before the attack that Israel has described as […]
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Thu 20 June 2024: Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have taken control of el-Fula, the capital of West Kordofan state, sources told Al Jazeera. The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) fought the RSF for several hours before withdrawing from the city, with the paramilitary group seizing government and military headquarters, the sources said on Thursday. […]
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