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Sudan will cut its government spending and increase social spending, the cabinet said on Saturday, after completing a raft of rapid economic reforms this month that threaten to compound pressures on the majority of the population. Earlier this month, Sudan fully removed subsidies on car petrol and diesel, and in February it devalued its currency and began a policy of a flexible managed float.
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“The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is one of the key drivers that can position Africa as an economic powerhouse,” declared the President of Botswana Mokgweetsi Masisi, while officially opening the 49th Plenary Assembly Session virtually yesterday (Friday 25 June, 2021).
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MAPUTO. – Islamist insurgents have been involved in renewed clashes near Mozambique’s northern town of Palma, military sources have told the AFP news agency.
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JOHANNESBURG. – Botswana and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are deadlocked on who should replace Tanzania’s Dr Stergomena Lawrence Tax for the post of Sadc executive secretary. Tax leaves office after finishing her second and final four-year term at the end of August. She was elected in August 2013 to become the regional body’s […]
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South Africa’s organised crime police, the Hawks have arrested a seventh soldier linked to a syndicate that has in the last four years been facilitating the smuggling of stolen vehicles into Zimbabwe via the Limpopo River.
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Strive Masiyiwa, the Zimbabwean telecommunications billionaire tasked with helping the African Union (AU) secure Covid-19 vaccines, said the shortage of doses on the continent was a consequence of deliberate action by the world’s richest nations.
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President Mnangagwa has arrived in Mozambique for the SADC extraordinary summit that also coincide with the regional bloc's 40th anniversary.
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Political Editor PRESIDENT Mnangagwa will today join other Heads of State and Government for a SADC Extraordinary Summit in Maputo, Mozambique to discuss issues around regional integration, regional security, the Covid-19 pandemic, and also food and nutrition among other issues. The summit is taking place at a time when the region is mourning the death […]
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Roselyne Sachiti in Okado, Edo State, NIGERIA Africa’s main challenge is not lack of funds or resources, but the inability to harness available resources to provide customised home-grown solutions needed to address challenges seen across the continent, former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo said today. Speaking at the launch of the Coalition for Dialogue on Africa […]
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LUSAKA. – Zambia’s founding president Kenneth Kaunda will be buried on July 7, three weeks after he died aged 97, the presidency announced yesterday
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JOHANNESBURG. – Unidentified stones that lured thousands of fortune seekers to a rural South African village to mine the land with picks and shovels were not diamonds as hoped, officials said on Sunday, but quartz stones with relatively low, if any, value.
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JOHANNESBURG. – South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa said yesterday the “selfish, unjust” refusal of pharmaceutical companies and allied Western governments to entertain emergency patent waivers on Covid-19 vaccines was endangering the entire world.
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LUSAKA. – The man who spent all his life shadowing his boss’s every step has followed him into the after-life.
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ACCRA. – The 15-nation Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Saturday announced 2027 as the new date to launch its single currency, the “eco.”
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Covid-19 has challenged the world to think broader on how to be better prepared for future pandemics to avoid similar devastation on economies, and all social aspects of life.