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Mon, 14 Feb 2022 07:56:25 GMT
South Africa: What's Happening In South Africa - February 14, 2022
[allAfrica] Cape Town --  

Mon, 14 Feb 2022 09:15:14 GMT
Africa: Climate Change Threatens Heritage Sites
[UCT] As the effects of climate change continue to cause significant damage across the globe, recent research led by the University of Cape Town's (UCT) African Climate and Development Initiative (ACDI) revealed that heritage sites of "outstanding an...

Mon, 14 Feb 2022 08:53:57 GMT
South Africa: School's Dream Dashed As Donor Fails to Pay Up
[GroundUp] Each weekday, almost 1,000 children from Valencia township and the surrounding area pack into 22 prefabricated classrooms at Addo Primary School. For over a decade, the community has fought for new permanent school buildings without succes...

Mon, 14 Feb 2022 08:52:44 GMT
Africa: Why Do We Celebrate Valentine's Day?
[Nile Post] The whole world on the occasion of Valentine's Day is usually painted red and is filled with in colour of love.

Mon, 14 Feb 2022 08:50:40 GMT
Cameroon: 2 Years On, Massacre Victims Await Justice
[HRW] Nairobi -- The trial of 21 people accused of involvement in the killings of 21 civilians in Ngarbuh, in Cameroon's North-West region, on February 14, 2020, has dragged on for 14 months, Human Rights Watch said today. The slow pace raises concer...

Mon, 14 Feb 2022 08:08:03 GMT
Zimbabwe: Outrage As Mnangagwa Rules Out U.S. Dollar Salaries Demanded By Striking Teachers
[New Zimbabwe] PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has ruled out use of United States dollars for salaries, which teachers on strike are demanding.

Mon, 14 Feb 2022 08:48:40 GMT
Tunisia: Protests After President Tightens Grip On Judiciary
[DW] Thousands of Tunisians demonstrated in the capital after President Kais Saied granted himself new judicial powers in a decree. Saied can now fire and block appointments of judges unilaterally.

Sun, 13 Feb 2022 19:33:33 GMT
South Africa: Acacia is Evicted from the Big Brother House! #BBMzansi
[Mzansi Magic] Another Sunday, another Big Brother Mzansi Live Show. With Biggie's twists, there aren't many things we can be certain off, but we did know one thing: somebody was going home. We didn't know who, and we didn't know how many, but th...

Mon, 14 Feb 2022 06:44:48 GMT
Morocco: Experts Expose Motivations Behind Several NGOs' Repeated Attacks
[MAP] Rabat -- Several political scientists, invited on Medi1TV Afrique's Saturday TV show "Le Débrief", exposed the true motivations behind the repeated attacks against Morocco from so-called international human rights NGOs, stressing unanimously t...

Mon, 14 Feb 2022 06:44:39 GMT
Sudan: International Call for Govt to Release Detainees
[Dabanga] Oslo / London / Washington / Ottawa / Bern / Bruss -- The recent pattern of arrests and detentions of civil society activists, journalists, and humanitarian workers occurring throughout Sudan these last weeks, is "wholly inconsistent with t...

Mon, 14 Feb 2022 06:39:32 GMT
Nigeria: Why Recent Nominations of Lawyers to Supreme Court Bench Failed
[Premium Times] Appointing lawyers from the bar directly to the Supreme Court bench is a rare occurrence in Nigeria, even though it is supported by the constitution.

Mon, 14 Feb 2022 03:08:43 GMT
Namibia: Geingob Rallies World Leaders Against Plastic Pollution
[Namibian] PRESIDENT Hage Geingob has rallied world leaders to intensify their efforts to combat plastic pollution and coastal erosion to avoid an unprecedented global environmental catastrophe.

Sun, 13 Feb 2022 10:45:15 GMT
Kenya: Dairy Sector Is Failing to Meet Domestic Demand. How It Can Raise Its Game
[The Conversation Africa] Kenya's dairy sector is estimated at 14% of Kenya's agricultural GDP. Milk is primarily produced by smallholder dairy farmers who account for 56% of total output. It is estimated that the sector has 1.8 million smallholder f...

Sun, 13 Feb 2022 10:45:15 GMT
Africa: Moody's Has Bought a Leading African Rating Agency - Why It's Bad News
[The Conversation Africa] Moody's Investors Service, one of the three dominant global credit rating agencies, is acquiring a majority shareholding in Global Credit Rating (GCR), a leading credit rating agency in Africa.

Sun, 13 Feb 2022 10:45:15 GMT
Congo-Kinshasa: Lessons From the DRC's 10th Ebola Epidemic - the People May Know Best
[The Conversation Africa] The tenth Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) was declared in North Kivu on 1 August 2018. The international response to the epidemic was significant. More than half a billion dollars of internationa...

Sun, 13 Feb 2022 10:45:10 GMT
Ghana: What It Would Take for More Ghanaians to Adopt Mobile Payment Systems
[The Conversation Africa] The introduction of information and communication technologies has created an opportunity for consumers to pay for products and services online and offline using mobile phones.

Mon, 14 Feb 2022 09:32:02 GMT
Zimbabwe: Chamisa Govt Will Scrap School Fees - Biti
[New Zimbabwe] EDUCATION would be free from pre-school to postgraduate studies under a Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) government, the party's deputy president Tendai Biti said.

Mon, 14 Feb 2022 09:26:06 GMT
Zimbabwe: Central Bank Governor Mangudya Defends Measly Withdrawal Limit
[New Zimbabwe] RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe governor John Mangudya defended bank withdrawal limits announced on Monday last week, saying while there has been a groundswell of criticism, the new levels were above average formal sector salaries.

Mon, 14 Feb 2022 09:16:34 GMT
Kenya: Land Prices in Nairobi See Growth as Investors, Infrastructure and Credit Support Sector
[The Exchange] Land prices in Nairobi's suburbs and towns maintained a mild upward growth in the fourth quarter of 2021

Mon, 14 Feb 2022 08:16:14 GMT
Zimbabwe: Musona Named Man of the Match for Al-Tai
[The Herald] WARRIORS skipper Knowledge Musona was the toast of the day for his club over the weekend when he made two great assists that helped Al-Tai beat Al-Batin 3-1 in the Saudi Pro League.

Sun, 13 Feb 2022 19:11:57 GMT
Botswana: Botswana Offers Start-Up Wildlife Stock to Farmers to Boost Agro-Tourism
[VOA] Gaborone -- In a bid to boost agro-tourism, the Botswana government is offering wildlife start-up stock to farmers to keep in their ploughing fields. The government says the move will give locals an improved stake in the lucrative tourism secto...

Sun, 13 Feb 2022 19:11:54 GMT
Zimbabwe: President Rules Out U.S. Dollar Salaries Demanded By Striking Teachers
[VOA] Harare -- Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa has ruled out use of U.S. dollars for salaries, which teachers on strike are demanding. Teachers and economists are condemning Mnangagwa for being out of touch with reality.

Sun, 13 Feb 2022 13:46:15 GMT
Ghana: Not Just Fancy Moves - How Ghana's Dance Academy Is Transforming Lives
[RFI] When Ghanaian dancer and choreographer Laud Konadu teamed up with two of his friends Ernest Kwablah, aka Quables, and Nicholas Botchey, aka Afrobeast, to set up the Dance With A Purpose Academy (DWP) in 2017, they knew it was a huge gamble. But...

Sun, 13 Feb 2022 10:45:15 GMT
Nigeria: Digital Technology Can Improve Nigeria's Elections - Lessons From 2019
[The Conversation Africa] Digital technologies to improve the reliability of election results have become more widely used around the world in the past two decades. In African countries, nearly all recent general elections have used various kinds of ...

Mon, 14 Feb 2022 09:44:21 GMT
Tanzania: A Hybrid Solution to Low Oil Supply Problem
[The Exchange] With annual demand of well over 570,000 tonnes and an output capacity of a mere 205,000 tonnes of cooking oil every year, it is no wonder Tanzanians are forced to dig deeper into their shallow pockets to buy this daily need. To cover t...

Mon, 14 Feb 2022 09:35:49 GMT
Nigeria: Govt Ramps Up Disbursement of CBN's N140 Billion Solar Intervention Fund
[This Day] Abuja -- The federal government is ramping up the disbursement of the N140 billion solar intervention fund, a facility by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to close the huge energy gap, especially in Nigeria's rural communities.

Mon, 14 Feb 2022 09:25:19 GMT
East Africa: Tanzania, Kenya - Road Networks Building Regional Trade
[The Exchange] As of 2015, Tanzania extended infrastructure investment in road, rail, air and marine transportation.

Mon, 14 Feb 2022 08:45:42 GMT
Rwanda: Rwanda's Most Followed Football Clubs on Social Media
[New Times] Football clubs just like other corporate companies world over use social media to communicate to their fans and also earn money from the platform.

Mon, 14 Feb 2022 08:29:31 GMT
Nigeria: Troops, Police Kill Scores of Bandits, Rescue 20 Abductees in Niger
[Leadership] A combined team of the military and the police has killed scores of bandits/terrorists and set free 20 abducted villagers in Magama local government area of Niger state.

Mon, 14 Feb 2022 08:26:08 GMT
Nigeria: Continue to Trust APC, Lawan Urges Nigerians
[Leadership] The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has urged Nigerians to continue to entrust the affairs of the country to the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC), stressing that APC is the party to trust.



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