JOHANNESBURG, March 14 (Reuters) – South Africa’s Competition Commission on Monday said it had referred Facebook and WhatsApp owner Meta Platforms FB.O to a tribunal for allegedly abusing its dominant position in the market. But a spokesperson for WhatsApp said the regulator was objecting to actions meant to protect the platform’s users from abuses of WhatsApp’s terms. In a statement, the regulator accused…
The US Department of State has dismissed the latest bid for recognition by the leader of self-declared republic of Somaliland. President Muse Bihi Abdi is on a charm offensive in the US where he made a passionate plea for international recognition as a nation state. Somaliland seceded from Somalia more than 30 years ago, but…
Cyclone Gombe has flooded large areas of northern and central Mozambique, killing 15 people, officials said Monday. The dead include five members of the same family in the Angoche coastal area of Nampula province, Governor Mety Gondola said. The number of injured is now at least 50, the prime minister’s office announced. Gombe is the…
Thousands of protesters took to the streets of the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, on Monday to denounce the October military coup that plunged the country into further turmoil. Security forces fired tear gas canisters toward the anti-coup protesters. Some of the demonstrators picked up the canisters and hurled them back at security forces. “We are calling…
Gunmen killed at least 13 gendarmes in an ambush Sunday at Taparko, a mining town in northern Burkina Faso regularly targeted by jihadist fighters, security sources said. “A team from the gendarmerie at Dori fell into an ambush set by armed individuals this afternoon near Taparko,” a security source told AFP. As well as the…
There is no doubt the Special Tribunal has been a game changer. Since its establishment, the Tribunal has recovered around R8.6 billion in unlawful contract funds, writes Cyril Ramaphosa. Dear Fellow South African, During the Presidential Imbizo in Mahikeng over the past weekend, several citizens raised concerns about the pace of the fight against corruption. They…
Steep increases in the price of bread in South Africa are coming, mainly due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the impact on the wheat price. But those higher prices will not come until the middle of the year. Ukraine and Russia control over a quarter of the world’s wheat exports. For more stories, go to www.BusinessInsider.co.za.…
Thousands of Tunisian opposition supporters demonstrated Sunday in the capital against President Kais Saied’s power grab and the economic crisis in the North African country. “Poverty has increased”, and “Famine is at our doorsteps”, they chanted as at least 2,000 people gathered in the city centre. Protesters held up signs in English and French, reading…
Mozambican meteorological authorities warned Thursday in northern Nampula province that the tropical storm Gombe is likely to make landfall at the province’s coastal district of Mossuril on Friday morning, the national news agency AIM reported. The system is moving at a speed between 120 to 165 kilometers per hour and the impact could be much…
Ten South African students who fled Ukraine after Russia’s military operation arrived home Thursday, with 25 more expected over the next few days. Welcomed by cheering family and friends at O.R Tambo International Airport, the students are among more than 80,000 foreign nationals who have left Ukraine, according to the International Organization for Migration. Returning…