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Dar es Salaam. — The Southern African People’s Solidarity Network (SAPSN) has called upon peace-loving citizens in the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) to stand in solidarity with the people of Mozambique as the country deals with multiple and overlapping crises, including military conflicts and religious extremism. SAPSN also instructed citizens in the region to […]
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JOHANNESBURG. — President Cyril Ramaphosa announced yesterday that the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the African National Congress (ANC) has approved his motion to have members of the ruling party who are facing charges of corruption step away from their posts until the conclusion of investigations into their misconduct. President Ramaphosa wrote a letter to […]
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Windhoek. — Police chief Sebastian Ndeitunga has called on members of the public to cooperate with law enforcement in the strict implementation of the daily curfew imposed nationally between 8pm and 5am to help curb the spread of Covid-19.
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NAIROBI. — A British-led team of hostage negotiators are celebrating after securing the release of three kidnapped sailors in the last and longest running hijacking in the Somali piracy crisis.
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Newly re-elected African Development Bank (AfDB) president Akinwumi Adesina voiced great optimism about Africa’s future as the institution closed its 55th annual meetings.
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THE African Union Sports Council Region 5 is set to go for elections on November 27 to choose a secretariat.
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THE Digital could be on its way for a sensational reunion with the Warriors.
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KIGALI. — Rwanda President Paul Kagame has celebrated Arsenal’s latest achievement to win another trophy in England.
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Zimbabweans are resisting cyber-attacks from detractors with an agenda of regime-change because they know there is no truth in the allegations of human rights violations and that they enjoy peace and stability, President Mnangagwa said yesterday.
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JOHANNESBURG. — The latest SIU report on the Beitbridge border fence saga has included a long list of irregularities. Based on that, the SIU has put forward recommendations for the Department of Public Works. While the department has been ordered to take action and implement the relevant recommendations, the SIU will approach the Special Tribunal […]
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Luanda. — Angola may stop paying US$2.6 billion in debt payment this year alone, which corresponds to 3.1 percent of last year’s GDP, according to the Fitch Ratings financial rating agency. According to the payments due data published by the World Bank, only five of the 22 countries that Fitch evaluates and that are eligible […]
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SOUTH African police (SAPS) have arrested six men believed to be Zimbabweans after they intercepted haulage trucks carrying cigarettes worth millions of rands that had been smuggled into the that country.
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ABUJA. — The Nigerian army yesterday said it was in “full control” of a north-eastern town where sources say hundreds of people had been taken hostage by rebels. The Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) fighters stormed Kukawa town on Tuesday and seized hundreds of residents who had just returned after fleeing their homes about […]
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Changsha. — Central China’s Hunan Province on Tuesday opened a cocoa trading centre to connect Africa, the world’s leading cocoa producer, to China’s fast-growing appetite for chocolate. The African Cocoa Marketing Centre, established in Changsha, provincial capital of Hunan, will start by selling cocoa mainly from Ghana before bringing in products from more African countries. […]
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Durban. — Tourism Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane encouraged South Africans under level 2 lockdown to support the tourism sector by travelling around the country. Kubayi-Ngubane was speaking at a briefing which outlined tourism-related activities under level 2. “We are putting together the pieces of a new path towards recovery as many people in our sector return […]