The Western Cape is taking ever-increasing steps to move away from relying solely on Eskom’s unreliable electricity supply in the province. On Wednesday (4 January), the premier of the Western Cape provincial government, Alan Winde, visited a Macassar-based business, Taylor Technology, that is making moves to mitigate the impact of load shedding in South Africa.…
Reuters | @SABCNews The French foreign ministry on Tuesday said it had received a letter from the Burkinabe authorities in December requesting the departure of Frances’s ambassador from Burkina Faso, a move the ministry called “not standard practice.” The Burkinabe government has declined to comment officially on reports it sent this request to Paris last month.In emailed…
By AFP Two children have died and six people been wounded in eastern DR Congo after a grenade they discovered during a bird-hunt exploded, local officials said on Tuesday. A group of youngsters had been hunting for birds Monday in a field near Ndunda, on the Ruzizi plain in South Kivu province, when they stumbled…
By AFP At least nine people were killed and several others wounded in simultaneous car bomb attacks in a town in central Somalia on Wednesday, security officials and witnesses said. “The terrorists attacked Mahas town this morning using vehicles loaded with explosives,” local security official Abdullahi Adan told AFP by phone. “They have targeted a…
Compiled by Phillip de Wet, Business Insider SA The 2023 version of big-hit UK TV show Winter Love Island is set in an isolated Franschhoek villa – after apparently moving out of Constantia because it was considered too close to the Cape Flats. At Franschhoek, producers are worried about kidnap gangs snatching contestants or staff and holding…
By George Wright & Thomas Naadi BBC News in London & Accra When it comes to abuse and corruption on Chinese fishing vessels in Ghana, Bright Tsai Kweku has seen it all. He has seen Chinese crew treating local fishermen like “slaves”, he says. “They beat them, they spit on them, they kick them,” Mr…
By Africanews NIGERIA Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has signed the $21.83 trillion 2023 budget. The head of state on Tuesday in Abuja, the capital, signed off on the eighth and final annual budget of his administration, saying it was an increase of $1.32 trillion over the original executive proposal. These provisions were made for the…
By Africanews with AP MOZAMBIQUE Mozambique, Ecuador, Japan, Malta, and Switzerland got a formal welcome into the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday, taking the two-year seats they won unopposed in June. In a tradition that Kazakhstan started in 2018, the five countries’ ambassadors installed their national flags Tuesday alongside those of other members outside the…
By Africanews with AP TANZANIA Tanzania´s President Samia Suluhu Hassan has lifted a six-year-ban on opposition rallies imposed by her autocratic predecessor, a move that was cautiously welcomed as a gain for democracy by the main opposition party. The ban was introduced in 2016 by political strongman John Magufuli at the onset of his first…