Money to be distributed after investigations are completed. Kizito Makoye DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania Relatives of the 19 people killed when a Tanzanian passenger plane crash-landed in Lake Victoria over the weekend are entitled to compensation of $170 million, the government said late Thursday. Precision Air flight PW494 carrying 39 passengers (38 adults and a…
Ditaba Tsotetsi | @SABCNews Pan African Parliament member, Mathole Motshekga, says the situation in the Cabo Delgado region in Mozambique is a threat to the whole Southern African Development (SADC) region. He has denounced external players that he says are fuelling terrorism in Cabo Delgado. A SADC force, including South African troops, has been assisting the Mozambican government to…
The City of Joburg says that it will publish the first Requests For Proposal (RFPs) for short-term energy supply from the private sector this month. Addressing business leaders on Thursday (10 November), the city said that it is moving to insulate businesses and residents from continued rolling blackouts in the country, which is causing major…
South Africa, France and Germany have signed loan agreements for the two European nations to each extend €300 million – about R10 billion in total – in concessional financing to South Africa to support the country’s just energy transition. The loans will be provided by the French and German public development banks, Agence Française de…
By AGGREY MUTAMBO The African Union (AU) is attracting criticism for looking the other way on the situation in Chad, where a president was assassinated last year ahead of inauguration for a new term, plunging the country into a chaotic transition period. And on Thursday, pro-democracy civil society organisations on the continent said the AU…
A sister of Egypt’s jailed dissident Alaa Abdel Fattah disputed a claim by the prosecutor that the hunger striker was in “good health”. The White House expressed “deep concern” about Abdel Fattah, after the activist’s lawyer said he had been refused access to him. International concern has mounted since the 40-year-old also began declining liquids…
ICC possesses audio, video records of atrocities and mass graves in city of Tarhuna, says chief prosecutor. TRIPOLI Authorities in Libya have unearthed 230 bodies, mostly unidentified, from sites in Tarhuna, a city south of the capital Tripoli, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) said Wednesday. Karim Asad Ahmad Khan addressed the…
By AFP Geneva Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the World Health Organisation’s leader, is in the rare position of heading a UN agency’s response to a humanitarian crisis in which his own family’s survival is at stake. Tedros, 57, hails from Tigray, the besieged northern region of Ethiopia gripped by fighting and misery for two years. Last week’s ceasefire…
NAIROBI, Nov 10 (Reuters) – Kenya’s government has decided to reduce its rate of borrowing, especially in the domestic market to spur lending to businesses, the chairman of the parliament’s budget committee said on Thursday. President William Ruto’s administration, which took over in mid-September, is in the process of revising its budget for this fiscal year to reduce expenditure by 300 billion…
The leaders of Chad’s main opposition groups said on Wednesday that they had been forced into hiding over fears for their safety. Both opposition figures have accused the junta of “extra-judicial killings” and mass arrests as they suppressed protests over delayed elections. Succes Masra and Max Loalngar aid their groups have called on the International Criminal Court…