Terrorist threat in Mozambique: SADC holds a virtual summit today on the issue
Southern African heads of state are meeting in a virtual summit on Monday 17 August. At the centre of their concerns: the terrorist threat in […]
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Togo: Resumption of air traffic
In Togo, the international airport Gnassingbé Eyadéma of Lomé has resumed its commercial flights since Saturday. Several measures are being taken to prevent the contamination […]
South Africa: IMF Provides $4.3 Billion in Emergency Assistance to fight Covid-19
The IMF announced this week that it approved $4.7 billion (€3.7 billion) in emergency assistance in response to Covid-19 to South Africa. The country had […]
Football: Belgian coach fired in Tanzania after racist comments
The very popular Tanzanian football club Young Africans SC announced on 27 July 2020 the immediate dismissal of its Belgian coach. Luc Eymael had compared […]
South Africa: Andrew Mlangeni, the last survivor of the Rivonia trial, died at the age of 95
South Africa has just lost another great figure in the struggle against apartheid. Andrew Mlangeni passed away last night. He had just celebrated his 95th […]
South Africa: Reinstatement of curfew and ban on the sale of alcohol
Two months after lifting them, Pretoria decided to re-impose these restrictions on 12 July, in view of the spread of the epidemic (between 12,000 and […]
The youngest daughter of Nelson Mandela passed away
Zindzi Mandela, the youngest daughter of Nelson Mandela, committed to the fight against apartheid, died on July 13 at the age of 59 in a […]
Negotiations have resumed on the Renaissance dam
Tripartite negotiations have quietly resumed on the Renaissance dam in a rather peculiar context, after a week of violence in Ethiopia. The negotiators had agreed […]
South Africa: first clinical trial of a vaccine against Covid-19 being conducted
South Africa has just started the first clinical trial of a vaccine against Covid-19 on the continent. This candidate vaccine has been developed by Oxford […]
Covid 19: South Africa has passed the hundred thousand cases
South Africa has passed the 100,000 mark for coronavirus cases, with the number of deaths now approaching 2,000, the authorities announced Monday. The country accounts […]