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KIGALI. — Rwanda has reopened tourism activities as well as the resumption of international travel for charter flights after the country had closed most activity due to Covid-19. Rwanda Development Board (RDB) said robust health and safety guidelines had been put in place because the well-being of all travellers was its top priority. Together with […]
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BLANTYRE. — Voting was peaceful in Malawi yesterday as people took part in a rerun poll five months after President Peter Mutharika’s disputed 2019 victory was annulled over rigging. Counting of ballots began in the evening at the 5 000 polling stations and the results will be announced from the National Tally Centre in Blantyre. The […]
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A moderate 3,9 magnitude earthquake hit Kariba and surrounding areas Monday morning with no reports of damage recorded so far.
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Herald Reporter ZIMBABWE has been elected to the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) cluster which has 17 other member states drawn from several continents. ECOSOC is the coordinating body for funds and the economic and social work of UN agencies. Nigerian diplomat Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, the outgoing president of the UN General Assembly, announced […]
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Gaborone. — Botswana’s capital city Gaborone has returned to normalcy after all the probable coronavirus cases registered last Friday tested negative, an official said on Monday. Mosepele Mosepele, deputy coordinator for the southern African country’s Covid-19 Presidential Taskforce Team, made the announcement during a virtual media briefing that was broadcast live on national television, Botswana […]
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Cape Town. — Premier Alan Winde has said that the Western Cape Department of Health has received the recommendations of the Ministerial Advisory Committee and is finalising the clinical protocols for the use of Dexamethasone. The premier said that researchers in the UK have released positive initial findings around the use of the steroid Dexamethasone […]
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JOHANNESBURG. — South Africa’s rand firmed against the dollar early yesterday, but traders said gains could be limited as concerns about a resurgence of global coronavirus cases and geopolitical tensions in Asia hurt risk appetite. At 6:40am, the rand traded at R17,1775 per dollar, 0,36 percent firmer than its previous close. “The rand, along with its […]
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South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has today announced the easing of restrictions on restaurants for sit-down meals, accredited and licensed accommodation, conferences and meeting for business purposes, cinemas and theatres.
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DAR ES SALAAM. — President John Pombe Magufuli has ordered that all schools across the country be reopened at the end of this month. He gave the directive during a speech at the dissolution of the 11th parliament on Monday. The order comes weeks after universities and other institutions of learning resumed teaching and learning […]
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JOHANNESBURG. — Sam Nzima is best known for taking the iconic photograph of Hector Pieterson, his sister Antoinette Sithole and Mbuyisa Makhubu during the Soweto Uprising on June 16, 1976 — 44 years ago. June 16 every year is Youth Day to pay tribute to those brave students who protested for equal education and freedom […]
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MASERU. — Lesotho’s former prime minister Thomas Thabane paid a team of hitmen from a notorious local gang a down payment of more than US$20 000 to kill his estranged wife, according to police statements. The cash was alleged to be the first instalment of a much larger sum — approximately $180 000 — that […]
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LUSAKA. — Zambia is looking for a new mobile-network operator to compete with existing providers after a company part-owned by Angolan billionaire Isabel dos Santos failed to set up operations as planned, Transport and Communications permanent secretary Misheck Lungu said. Zambia’s telecommunications regulator awarded UZI Zambia, the local unit of Unitel International Holdings, the licence […]
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Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza has died of a heart attack, according to the government.
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The Covid-19 crisis has provided an opportunity for government to reform its state-owned enterprises, so much so that President Cyril Ramaphosa is optimistic about the future of troubled entities SAA and Eskom.
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ZANU PF and war veterans have called upon the international community to demand justice for the slain black man who met an agonising death at the hands of a white police man in the United States.