By The EastAfrican Schools in East Africa are going into the new terms this year with a continual headache of finding resources to ensure affordable schooling. From Tanzania to Rwanda, Kenya and Uganda, the thread of insufficient learning materials, teachers, overcrowding and confusion over the fees charged is going to dominate the early weeks of…
Power utility Eskom says that it has not announced permanent stage 2 and 3 load shedding in South Africa. Responding to various reports on Sunday declaring permanent stage 2 and stage 3 load shedding is hitting the country for the next two years, Eskom spokesperson Sikonathi Mantshantsha said that this was a measure that was considered but…
Fuel prices in South Africa have taken a turn, with current forecasts pointing to a petrol price hike in February. Mid-month data from the Central Energy Fund (CEF) showed a small petrol and diesel price drop for February but pointed to a downward trend in the over-recovery of prices. This downward trend has now turned the…
By Rédaction Africanews Last updated: 1 hour ago SOMALIA Al-Qaida-linked extremists stormed a regional government office in Somalia’s capital Sunday, and five civilians were killed, the government said. The founder of the Aamin ambulance service, Abdulkadir Adan, told The Associated Press his team collected 16 wounded people from the scene. The al-Shabab extremist group claimed responsibility for…
Russian frigate armed with hypersonic Zircon missiles will participate in joint drills in South Africa in February, TASS says. A Russian warship armed with hypersonic cruise weapons will take part in exercises with the Chinese and South African navies in February, according to Russia’s state-owned TASS news agency. The report on Monday was the first official mention…
The mutilated body of Martinez Zogo was found near the capital five days after he was taken by unknown assailants. The mutilated body of a prominent Cameroonian journalist has been found near the capital Yaounde, five days after he was abducted by unidentified assailants. Martinez Zogo, director of private radio station Amplitude FM, was kidnapped…
2 countries express conviction that they are capable of addressing security challenges internally Benjamin Takpiny JUBA, South Sudan South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir and his Sudanese counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Burhan agreed Thursday to establish a joint security force to prevent the infiltration of illegal weapons. The heads of state emphasized the importance of maintaining stability…
The Democratic Alliance (DA) has written to President Cyril Ramaphosa requesting an urgent meeting about Eskom and the growing power crisis. This as the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) has granted the power utility a tariff increase of 18.65 percent instead of the 32 percent it had applied for, effective from April 1st. DA Shadow…
A woman cried on Wednesday as she testified to a Swiss court that a former Liberian rebel commander had raped her repeatedly during the country’s civil war, on the first day of his appeal to overturn 22 convictions for war crimes. While Alieu Kosiah is appealing the 2021 ruling Swiss prosecutors are arguing that he…
Uganda’s cabinet has agreed for the energy ministry to sign production-sharing agreements (PSA) for two oil exploration blocks with two oil firms, including a unit of Australia’s DGR Global, the government said on Thursday. A cabinet meeting on Monday had approved the signing of an agreement with DGR Energy Turaco Uganda Limited, owned by Australia’s…