Business Insider SA Phillip de Wet , 20 Feb On 28 February, Business Insider South Africa will shut down. We will flip the switch with a tinge of sadness, but less than you may imagine. While this publication will shut down, what we offered – fast, fun, and fearless coverage of business (and not-quite-business) topics…
Analysis by David McKenzie, CNN Updated 8:31 PM EST, Sun February 19, 2023 Johannesburg, South Africa CNN — As the anniversary of Vladimir Putin’s brutal invasion of Ukraine approaches, a Russian warship armed with one of Moscow’s most powerful weapons pulled into a port on South Africa’s east coast this weekend. The frigate Admiral Gorshkov –…
Storm has been upgraded to Very Intense Tropical Cyclone with severe risk of deadly landslides Cyclone Freddy, upgraded to a Very Intense Tropical Cyclone on 19 February, is expected to make landfall in Madagascar this week, with fatalities likely. The previous tropical cyclone to affect the country was Cheneso, which struck about a month ago and caused…
ByJerry Omondi South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has declared a national state of disaster over the current floods that have hit parts of the country. According to media reports, seven of the country’s nine provinces are struggling to contain the devastating impacts of floods following days of heavy rainfall. In a statement on Tuesday, the…
AP , Monday 13 Feb 2023 Rescue crews on Monday pulled a 40-year-old woman from the wreckage of a building a week after two powerful earthquakes struck, but reports of rescues are coming less often as the time since the quake reaches the limits of the human body’s ability to survive without water, especially in sub-freezing…
AFP , Sunday 12 Feb 2023 The UN denounced Sunday a failure to get desperately needed aid to war-torn regions of Syria, while warning that the death toll of nearly 30,000 from an earthquake that also devastated Turkey could at least double. A UN convoy with supplies for northwest Syria arrived via Turkey, but the agency’s…
By Africanews The African Union (AU) has called on Saturday for a “political dialogue” between the Ethiopian government and Tigrayan officials, more than three months after a peace agreement that ended a bloody conflict in the north of the country. The statement issued on Saturday in Addis Ababa was the outcome from a meeting of the monitoring committee for the peace agreement on Friday that included representatives of the…
ByJerry Omondi Malawi’s High Court has rejected an application by the government to uphold the suspension of the head of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), Martha Chizuma. Chizuma was suspended on January 31 after an audio clip that seemingly suggested she and other high-ranking officials were obstructing justice went viral. She was arrested in December for the…
By CGTN Africa The United Nations and humanitarian partners in Somalia together with federal and state governments on Wednesday released the 2023 Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) for Somalia, which seeks 2.6 billion U.S. dollars to assist about 7.6 million people. An estimated 8.25 million people, nearly half of the population, need immediate lifesaving humanitarian and…
By Darren Lewis, Nimi Princewill and Chris Liakos, CNN Updated 10:17 AM EST, Tue February 7, 2023 International football player Christian Atsu has been found alive and is in “stable condition” at a local hospital following Monday’s earthquake in southern Turkey, the Ghana Football Association and Atsu’s agent said on Tuesday. “We’ve received some positive news that Christian Atsu…
