The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Monday ordered the review of a $30 million reparation package for victims of DR Congo warlord Bosco Ntaganda, citing several errors in the Trial Chamber’s decision. Last year the Hague-based court awarded $30 million in reparations including for victims of crimes by child soldiers, rape and sexual slavery. But…
President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to visit the areas affected by the Jagersfontein mine dam collapse. One person was killed, one person is unaccounted for, and 82 were hospitalised. The incident is not the first of its kind; almost 30 years ago, 17 people were killed in the Merriespruit tailings dam disaster. Compensation for fatalities…
LONDON, Sept 12 (Reuters) – China’s waiver of 23 interest-free loans to African countries last month amounted to only 1.1% or less of Chinese lending to the continent, a study showed on Monday. China’s foreign ministry said in August it had cancelled 23 loans to 17 African countries that matured in 2021, but did not give further…
The team of Kenya’s President-elect has barred local media from covering the presidential inauguration, offering exclusive broadcast rights to Multichoice Kenya Ltd, an affiliate of South African pay-TV group. Kenyan national broadcaster, KBC, has a minority shareholding at Multichoice Kenya Ltd. Local broadcasters will receive the contractor’s live feed. Details of the contract haven’t been…
The African Union has welcomed an announcement by Tigrayan rebels in northern Ethiopia that they are willing to take part in peace negotiations. The head of the AU Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, said it was a unique opportunity to end the conflict and urged the rebels and the government in Addis Ababa to implement an…
When a student asked Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta in 2018 about how he would like to be remembered when he leaves office, he seemed to have been caught off-guard by the question, before singling out two things. “One is that I will have left a united, cohesive society. And two, that we shall have won…
Ethiopia’s Tigray rebels said Sunday they would accept a peace process with the federal authorities led by the African Union. The rebels, from the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), a party that ruled Ethiopia for nearly three decades until 2018, decries the “closeness” of the AU mediator, Nigerian Olusegun Obasanjo, to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy…
Colonel Mamady Doumbouya, the head of Guinea’s transitional authorities, is targeted by a complaint filed in Paris by the opposition alliance known as FNDC. According to the AFP, the coalition of parties, trade unions and civil society organisation together with relatives of 3 people killed during anti-junta demonstrations and of one person who died in…
BY : TASNEEM BULBULIACREAMER MEDIA REPORTER The Youth Employment Service (YES) programme, which provides an avenue to quality jobs in the private sector, has made considerable strides since its launch in 2018. In 2021, it created over 25 000 youth jobs, making it the largest jobs programme in South Africa that is fully funded by the private…
Evariste Ndayishimiye fires 5 ministers a day after sacking his prime minister. KIGALI, Rwanda Burundi’s president Thursday reshuffled his Cabinet, dismissing five ministers just days after he warned of a coup plot against him. In a decree, Evariste Ndayishimiye appointed new faces, including Audace Niyonzima as finance minister, Dieudonne Dukundane as public infrastructure minister, Deo…