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Wed, 21 Jul 2021 21:29:09 +0000
News24.com | South African troops land in Mozambique
South African troops have been deployed as part of the Southern African Development Community’s Standby Force to combat terrorism in Cabo Delgado.

Wed, 21 Jul 2021 14:45:11 +0000
News24.com | Nigerian parents living through student abduction nightmare
Judith is 14, sings in her church choir, dreams of becoming a lawyer and likes nothing more than offering her hairstyling skills to her neighbours.

Wed, 21 Jul 2021 12:56:18 +0000
News24.com | Leader of Tanzania's main opposition party arrested: statement
The leader of Tanzania's main opposition party Chadema and other members were arrested early Wednesday, the party said, ahead of a planned conference to demand constitutional reform.

Wed, 21 Jul 2021 10:42:36 +0000
News24.com | One hundred kidnapped villagers freed in Nigeria
One hundred kidnapped villagers in northwest Nigeria were freed Tuesday, police said, following negotiations with their abductors who had held them hostage for 42 days.

Tue, 20 Jul 2021 20:49:11 +0000
News24.com | Tunisia health minister sacked over virus: statement
Tunisia's Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi has sacked Health Minister Faouzi Mehdi, Mechichi's office said, amid spiralling coronavirus cases in the North African country.

Tue, 20 Jul 2021 18:28:02 +0000
News24.com | 'A wake up call': Neighbouring countries felt shockwave of SA's unrest
Namibia concerned over food and medical supplies, reassess its dependence on South African exports.

Tue, 20 Jul 2021 17:19:13 +0000
News24.com | Mali President Goita targeted by stabbing attack
Mali's interim President Assimi Goita was the target of an attempted stabbing attack during Eid al-Adha prayers at Bamako's Grand Mosque.

Mon, 19 Jul 2021 19:34:16 +0000
News24.com | Zimbabwe warning sparks vaccination rush
A warning in Zimbabwe that people will face restrictions if they are not fully immunised against Covid-19 sparked a rush to vaccination sites struggling to meet surging demand.

Mon, 19 Jul 2021 17:27:37 +0000
News24.com | Nigerian fighter jet shot down by criminals, pilot survives
Heavily-armed criminals have shot down a fighter jet in Nigeria's north west Zamfara state, the air force said, adding that the pilot had safely ejected and evaded capture.

Mon, 19 Jul 2021 16:22:23 +0000
News24.com | EXPLAINER | How African countries with highest Covid-19 death rates are dealing with the pandemic
Military intervention in Tunisia, a fast-filling cemetery in Namibia, a harsh lockdown in Uganda, and campaign rallies in Zambia.

Tue, 20 Jul 2021 08:04:09 +0000
Businessinsider.co.za | From Delta to desert: the best of Botswana in the midst of a pandemic
Botswana is open to visitors - and it's the most accessible luxury travel destination for South Africans

Sun, 18 Jul 2021 13:18:56 +0000
News24.com | Three Chinese, two Mauritanians kidnapped in Mali
Three Chinese nationals and two Mauritanians were kidnapped in southwest Mali on Saturday, the country's armed forces said, in the latest attack in the war-torn Sahel state.

Tue, 20 Jul 2021 10:37:06 +0000
News24.com | ‘The state massacred the people’– Eswatini MP
In his first public appearance since riots, King Mswati blamed protesters for the killing of civilians and slammed activists.

Sat, 17 Jul 2021 10:26:58 +0000
News24.com | MultiChoice in talks with Nigerian authorities over instruction to freeze its bank accounts
Nigeria’s Federal Inland Revenue Service says the decision to freeze MultiChoice accounts was as a result of the group’s under-remittance of taxes and continued refusal to grant the authority access to its servers for audit.

Sat, 17 Jul 2021 09:54:36 +0000
News24.com | Senegal president threatens to close borders as Covid cases soar
Senegal's President Macky Sall threatened on Friday to close the borders and re-impose a state of emergency after the country registered a new record number of daily Covid-19 cases for the third time in a week.

Sat, 17 Jul 2021 09:30:19 +0000
News24.com | Transgender woman in Cameroon describes 'hell' of five months in prison
The five months that two transgender women in Cameroon spent in prison were "hell", one of them told Reuters on Friday after they were released, describing how they were initially forced to sleep with chains around their legs.

Fri, 16 Jul 2021 18:48:18 +0000
News24.com | Protesters dispersed as King Mswati III holds a national dialogue in eSwatini
Security forces fired at protesters in eSwatini, while the king held a dialogue at his royal residence.

Fri, 16 Jul 2021 18:34:35 +0000
News24.com | Eswatini king appoints new prime minister
Despite calls for a more representative democracy, King Mswati III has announced the appointment of a new prime minister.

Fri, 16 Jul 2021 14:27:31 +0000
News24.com | These five countries account for more than 80% of Africa's almost record Covid-19 infections
Deaths rose from 4 348 deaths in the first week of July, to 6 273, for the week ending 11 July.

Fri, 16 Jul 2021 14:13:19 +0000
News24.com | #UnrestSA likely behind delay of SADC mission to Mozambique
The Southern African Development Community's Standby Force was supposed to be deployed to Mozambique on Thursday, but unrest in South Africa may have prevented this.



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