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Sun, 07 Feb 2021 08:15:58 +0000
News24.com | AU leader Faki secures second 4-year term at summit focused on Covid
Chad's former prime minister Moussa Faki Mahamat on Saturday won a second term as head of the African Union's executive body at the opening of a two-day virtual summit expected to focus on the continent's pandemic response.

Sun, 07 Feb 2021 07:02:54 +0000
News24.com | African leaders to tackle Covid, conflict at virtual summit
African leaders will open a two-day virtual summit Saturday to discuss the continent's Covid-19 response as well as security issues that have been overlooked during the pandemic.

Sat, 06 Feb 2021 14:37:51 +0000
News24.com | WATCH | Meet Brookesia nana: the world's smallest reptile has been found in Madagascar
Scientists have identified Earth's smallest known reptile, warning at the same time that sustained destruction of forests in northern Madagascar threatens its survival.

Fri, 05 Feb 2021 14:51:05 +0000
News24.com | UN warns situation in Ethiopia’s Tigray now ‘extremely alarming’
UN says most of the troubled region remains ‘inaccessible’ for aid workers amid growing hunger due to ongoing fighting.

Fri, 05 Feb 2021 13:46:52 +0000
News24.com | South Sudan hotels kick out politicians over $50 milion in unpaid bills
Hundreds of South Sudanese politicians have been kicked out of hotels where they have been staying during the country's peace process, over some $50 million dollars in unpaid bills, a hotel association said late on Thursday.

Fri, 05 Feb 2021 12:08:01 +0000
News24.com | Egypt frees Jazeera journalist after 4 years jail: security
Egypt has released Al Jazeera journalist Mahmoud Hussein after more than four years in detention on accusations of publishing false news, a security source said Friday.

Fri, 05 Feb 2021 11:04:44 +0000
News24.com | Virus leads to first Mozambique curfew since civil war
About two million Mozambicans in the epicentre of the country's coronavirus breakout will from Friday adhere to a curfew for the first time since the civil war ended in 1992, President Filipe Nyusi announced on Thursday.

Thu, 04 Feb 2021 20:01:21 +0000
News24.com | Outrage as Zim asks citizens to pay for Covid-19 vaccine themselves
In an interview with Zimbabwe Television Network, finance minister Mthuli Ncube said government will only cater for frontline workers and the most vulnerable in society.

Thu, 04 Feb 2021 21:55:27 +0000
News24.com | WATCH | Botswana must curb diamond reliance - president
After a year in which coronavirus restrictions caused a slump in diamond exports, Botswana's president said on Thursday that the country needs to diversify its economy.

Thu, 04 Feb 2021 21:49:53 +0000
News24.com | China to donate 100 000 Covid-19 vaccine doses to the Congo
China will donate 100 000 doses of Covid-19 vaccine to Congo Republic and forgive $13 million in public debt, its ambassador to the Central African country said on Thursday.

Thu, 04 Feb 2021 19:35:35 +0000
News24.com | Covid-19: Zimbabwe to get 200 000 vaccine doses from China's Sinopharm for free
Zimbabwe will receive 200 000 free doses of China's Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on Thursday, after China and Russia offered shots against the coronavirus to the impoverished southern African nation.

Thu, 04 Feb 2021 15:30:48 +0000
News24.com | WATCH | ICC finds commander of Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army guilty of war crimes
Child soldier-turned-Lord’s Resistance Army commander Dominic Ongwen convicted by Netherlands-based court.

Thu, 04 Feb 2021 18:41:02 +0000
News24.com | Angolan police fire tear gas on anti-govt protesters
Angolan police fired tear gas at youths rallying in Luanda against police brutality and economic hardship.

Thu, 04 Feb 2021 16:59:04 +0000
News24.com | Remember Joseph Kony? Uganda's brutal Lord's Resistance Army, past and present
One of Africa's longest-surviving rebel groups, the Lord's Resistance Army has terrorised parts of central Africa for 35 years.

Thu, 04 Feb 2021 13:41:37 +0000
News24.com | Ethiopia arrests 15 people over UAE embassy attack plot: Reports
Country’s intelligence and security service said suspects were working on direction of foreigners, local media report.

Thu, 04 Feb 2021 12:37:51 +0000
News24.com | Central Africa govt forces retake key town from rebels
Forces loyal to the Central African Republic government have retaken a key town from rebels, the country's prime minister said on Wednesday, as the UN said peacekeepers would maintain a "robust" posture.

Thu, 04 Feb 2021 12:35:39 +0000
News24.com | UN warns Tigray conflict could spark broader destabilisation in Ethiopia
A conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region could trigger broader destabilisation in the country, UN aid chief Mark Lowcock told the Security Council as he warned that a dire humanitarian situation in the north was set to worsen.

Thu, 04 Feb 2021 09:20:24 +0000
News24.com | Covid and conflicts compete for attention at African Union summit
African leaders are expected to focus on the continent's Covid-19 response at a virtual summit this weekend, as well as pressing security crises that have gone overlooked during the pandemic.

Thu, 04 Feb 2021 05:02:13 +0000
News24.com | Nelson Chamisa | Countering reactionary, authoritarian politics in Africa
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa writes that there have been four elections in Africa that were rubber-stamped by the international community, thereby perpetuating a culture of unfair competition and illiberal democracy.

Wed, 03 Feb 2021 20:00:48 +0000
News24.com | Foreign entities can now fully own mines in Zimbabwe following outcry
The Zimbabwean government "deleted" an amendment to the Finance Act which had given it the power to control at least 51% ownership in mining entities.



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