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Sat, 21 May 2022 15:42:57 +0000
News24.com | Botswana President Masisi's jet in emergency landing after airport fire
Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi's jet was on Friday allowed a safe landing at Geneva Airport in Switzerland, moments before closure due to a fire in a nearby building.

Sat, 21 May 2022 14:13:04 +0000
News24.com | Olusegun Obasanjo secures release of more than 4 000 prisoners of war in Tigray
Former Nigeran president Olusegun Obasanjo has secured a diplomatic victory in the Ethiopian civil war, with the transitional government of Tigray committing to release more than 4 000 prisoners of war.

Mon, 16 May 2022 20:10:16 +0000
News24.com | Talk to us: How does the Zimbabwean Exemption Permit termination affect you?
Are you affected by the decision by government to terminate the Zimbabwean Exemption Permit? News24 wants to hear from you. If you would like to feature in our series highlighting the human impact of this decision, send us a mail to feedback@news24.c...

Sat, 21 May 2022 13:43:47 +0000
News24.com | Wife says Ethiopian general arrested after criticising government
A prominent Ethiopian general who has been critical of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government was due in court on Friday after being arrested this week, his wife said.

Sat, 21 May 2022 11:19:09 +0000
News24.com | 'Armed men kidnap' 3 Italians and a Togolese in Mali
Armed men have kidnapped an Italian couple and their child as well as a Togolese national in southeastern Mali, a local official and a Malian security source told AFP on Friday.

Fri, 20 May 2022 15:29:54 +0000
News24.com | Axed Zambian high court judge faces new corruption charges
The Zambian Anti-Corruption drive has netted a recently fired high court judge on bribery allegations.

Fri, 20 May 2022 13:59:43 +0000
News24.com | US says 'Hotel Rwanda' hero 'wrongfully detained'
The United States said on Thursday it has determined that "Hotel Rwanda" hero Paul Rusesabagina has been "wrongfully detained" by Kigali, which handed him a 25-year prison term.

Fri, 20 May 2022 10:15:33 +0000
News24.com | Paying to get paid: Young Zimbabweans trade money, sex for jobs
Experts say a series of monumental economic mistakes has led to acute unemployment and unethical recruitment in Zimbabwe.

Fri, 20 May 2022 05:00:45 +0000
News24.com | Namibia goes to Europe to sell its sunshine
As Europe struggles to decarbonise its economy and wean itself off Russian oil and gas, one of the world's sunniest and most arid nations is pitching itself to the continent as an answer to its problems.

Thu, 19 May 2022 18:00:38 +0000
News24.com | Africa contained monkeypox outbreaks during Covid-19 - Africa CDC
A handful of cases of the virus have now been reported or are suspected in the UK, US, Portugal and Spain.

Thu, 19 May 2022 17:51:06 +0000
News24.com | Taking up arms against Ethiopia last resort for survival, says Tigray's armed force
The civil war, coupled with climate change, disrupted food security, which resulted in more than 5.2 million people in need of food aid, according to United Nations estimates.

Thu, 19 May 2022 16:00:30 +0000
News24.com | Kidnappers of Nigerian college students arrested one year later - police
Nigerian police said they arrested two suspects behind the kidnapping of students from a Nigerian college last year, one of the most high-profile cases in a recent string of abductions of pupils.

Thu, 19 May 2022 15:19:50 +0000
News24.com | Africa has contained monkeypox outbreaks during Covid-19 pandemic - Africa CDC
Several outbreaks of monkeypox in Africa have been contained during the Covid-19 pandemic while the world's attention was elsewhere, and outbreaks in Europe and the United States are a concern, Africa's top public health agency said.

Thu, 19 May 2022 13:34:49 +0000
News24.com | UN slams South Africa's inability to arrest suspected Rwandan war criminal living in the country
The United Nations Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (MICT) has turned its focus on Fulgence Kayishema, a suspected Rwandan genocide perpetrator who it believes is in South Africa.

Thu, 19 May 2022 10:43:45 +0000
News24.com | From Zambia to Japan: the push for paid menstrual leave
Many women have painful periods, but only a handful of countries around the world, mostly in Asia, allow them to take time off work to recover.

Thu, 19 May 2022 10:17:01 +0000
News24.com | Mozambique detects polio case after Malawi outbreak
Mozambique has detected its first case of wild poliovirus in three decades, following an outbreak in neighbouring Malawi in February, the World Health Organisation (WHO) announced on Wednesday.

Thu, 19 May 2022 08:25:02 +0000
News24.com | Zambian central bank refuses to pay ransom to hackers
Zambia’s central bank said it refused to pay ransom to a group known as Hive that was behind a cybersecurity breach that caused minimal damage to its systems.

Thu, 19 May 2022 08:26:35 +0000
News24.com | Zim lifts lending ban as currency and stock exchange nosedive
President Emmerson Mnangagwa initially said the lending ban was motivated by the need to defend the local currency from manipulators and market indiscipline.

Wed, 18 May 2022 16:08:14 +0000
News24.com | Nigeria: Nine dead after explosion in Kano
The national emergency service said the explosion in the northern city led to the collapse of a building and the deaths.

Wed, 18 May 2022 14:58:38 +0000
News24.com | Covid-19: Namibia could destroy another 330 000 vaccine doses by October
Namibia could destroy at least 330 000 doses of the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine by October to add to the 318 000 doses, worth an estimated R27 million, that have already been destroyed since last year.



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