Cheap renewables offer the key to universal electricity access in Africa. Across the globe, nearly 800 million people live without any access to electricity – about 600 million of them in sub-Saharan Africa. In a world of deepening inequalities between the haves and have-nots, this is a glaring injustice. With cheap renewables and green investments…
As the world is marking the desertification drought day on Thursday, more than 1,000 animals died on a Northern Cape game farm over the last few months as South Africa’s entire Kalahari region is being crippled by one of the worst droughts locals have ever seen. Several African countries are struggling to tackle extreme water…
Nigeria’s Major General Farouk Yahaya on a visit to the main base in Maiduguri, Borno state Hadin Kai — formerly known as Lafiya Dole. The main site via which the military conducts its operation against Islamist extremist group Boko Haram in the northeast of the country. Newly appointed on May 27 by President Muhammadu Buhari — a position yet to be…
Confirmed, the death of Abubakar Shekau — the leader of Nigerian jihadist extremist group Boko Haram. The confirmation comes by way of a video announcement sent Wednesday to AFP by the presumed new leader Bakura Modu, known as Sahaba. The announcement also puts to rest the scores of rumours that Shekau had been dead since May. Sahaba, a prominent Boko…
On the outskirts of the small village of KwaHlathi — at five hours drive from Johannesburg in eastern Kwazulu-Natal province, thousands of South Africans have come out on a quest to find unidentified crystal-like pebbles. The believed precious stones were unearthed by a cattle herder a few days prior. News of the finding spread fast,…
Zimbabwean freelance reporter for the New York Times (NYT) Jeffrey Moyo — was finally freed from detention in Bulawayo prison late Tuesday evening after a court ruled to grant his release on bail at ZW$5,000 ($59). Not all went as smoothly as planned. Legal representative Amanda Sihle Ndlovu had to navigate a tricky situation for her client in spite…
Police officers in Kampala detained several people who had gathered at a bar in violation of a nightly coronavirus curfew on Sunday. About a week ago, Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni had ordered the closure of schools and the suspension of non-essential travel between districts in an attempt to stem out a worrying trend in the…
Public gatherings in Namibia will now be limited to ten people and should last no more than two hours if held indoors. This comes as per Tuesday’s decree in a move to stem the drastic increase in new COVID-19 infections, hospitalizations and deaths in the country. In addition, all contact sports will be banned and…
Senior ReporterCARTELS smuggling fuel and second-hand clothes into the country have become powerful and daring to an extent of hiring earth-moving equipment to clear and periodically repair gravel roads connecting into Mozambique through undesignated points without the local authorities’ involvement, The Herald has learnt. Fuel tankers and other heavy trucks laden with clothing bales cross…
Rising Covid-19 cases in Africa are “especially concerning” because the continent has the least amount of access to vaccines, diagnostics and oxygen, said World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Together with the spread of more transmissible variants this increases the continent’s mortality rate among critically ill Covid-19 patients, he told reporters in a briefing…