Olivia Kumwenda-MtamboReuters The provincial health department in the South African province of Gauteng on Sunday announced 19 new cases of Cholera in Hammanskraal, including 10 deaths. South Africa reported its first cholera death in February, after the virus arrived in the country from Malawi. It was unclear how many cholera cases there was nationally as of Sunday, but…
Ruxandra IordacheCNBC KEY POINTS World Trade Organization Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala advocated for diversification in global supply chains, identifying an “overconcentration of manufacturing in certain sectors in certain countries.” “Let’s look for those areas where we have the right environment, diversify and use that to bring them in from the margin into the global system,” she…
Jonathan Munemo As US allies respond with inward looking protection measures of their own and align with the US to create a global supply chain less reliant on China, worsening economic fragmentation could have far-reaching consequences for countries in Africa, writes Jonathan Munemo. For more financial news, go to the News24 Business front page. The Biden administration has ratcheted…
By Catherine ByaruhangaAfrica correspondent, BBC News, Paloich It is the airport wait from hell. Paloich Airport, which usually buzzes with the sound of well-heeled workers serving South Sudan’s oil fields, has turned into a camp for thousands of people fleeing the conflict in neighbouring Sudan – now more than a month old. There are no…
By Rédaction Africanews MAURITANIA The ruling party in Mauritania scored a comfortable victory in last week’s legislative and local elections, according to official results on Sunday, a litmus test for the veteran head of state ahead of next year’s presidential poll. The elections were the first since 2019, when President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani came to…
By Rédaction Africanews COMOROS Authorities on the French Indian Ocean island of Mayotte on Monday began demolishing homes in a large slum in an operation against sub-standard housing and illegal migration Diggers started destroying Majicavo slum at early Monday morning as part of Operation Wuambushu (“Take Back” in the local language), which the French authorities…