By Halligan Agade -December 28, 2022 by Travers Andrews One of the world’s largest flowers, the rare Titan Arum Lily, also known as the corpse flower because it mimics the smell of rotting flesh, takes up to 10 years or longer to bloom. Botanists at the Stellenbosch Botanical Gardens in Cape Town, say one of their Titans…
In South Africa, electricty load-shedding forces companies to scale back just as the country was recovering from the Covid-19 health crisis.Cities such as Johanesburg struggle with an overburdened power grid and failing infrastructures. 2022 has been one of the worst years for South Africans in terms of power cuts. The country was prey to more…
AFP , Wednesday 28 Dec 2022 Families embraced and wept in emotional reunions Wednesday after the first commercial flight in 18 months between Ethiopia’s capital city and the war-torn Tigray region to the north. The return of flights between Addis Ababa and Tigray’s capital Mekele follows a ceasefire reached between government and rebel forces last month…
Reuters LISBON – Angola’s Supreme Court has ordered the “preventive” seizure of assets worth around $1 billion held by Isabel dos Santos, the daughter of the southern African country’s former president, Portugal’s Lusa news agency said on Tuesday. The court document cited by Lusa, dated Dec. 19, said authorities had evidence of alleged embezzlement and money…
Reuters JOHANNESBURG, Dec 28 (Reuters) – South Africa’s rand strengthened in early trade against the dollar on Wednesday amid thin trading in a holiday-curtailed week. At 0645 GMT, the rand traded at 17.1600 against the dollar, 0.54% stronger than its previous close. The dollar index , which measures the currency against six rivals, was flat…
Nairobi (AFP) – A high-level Ethiopian team arrived Monday in the capital of rebel-held Tigray for a first official visit following a peace deal aimed at ending a brutal two-year conflict. Advertising The delegation visiting the Tigrayan capital Mekele will “supervise the implementation of major issues in the peace agreement” signed on November 2, an…
Moses Gahigi, Beatrice Materu and Siago Cece, The East African Flights to Coast counties, the train to Mombasa and many buses were fully booked, unlike previous festive seasons during the lockdowns Moses Gahigi, Beatrice Materu and Siago Cece, The East African East Africans are this week freer than in the past two festive seasons, which they…
Reuters ADDIS ABABA, Dec 27 (Reuters) – Ethiopian Airlines (ETHA.UL) will resume flights to the capital of the war-torn northern region of Tigray starting on Wednesday, the airline said in a statement, the first commercial flights to Tigray in about 18 months. The announcement comes a day after a delegation of government officials and heads…
By Africanews The Gabonese Democratic Party (PDG) ended a congress on Saturday with a call for the Head of State, Ali Bongo Ondimba, to seek re-election next year. Gabon will go to the polls in august 2023 to pick a new president. Many believe that President Ondimba is the right choice for the party. “We have come not only to revitalise our party but…
By Africanews The Congolese army described the withdrawal of M23 rebels from a strategic town near the regional capital, Goma, as a “decoy”. According to the army, the rebels were strengthening their positions in other areas. In recent months the M23 rebels have conquered vast areas in eastern Congo advancing within a few dozen kilometres of Goma. On Friday, M23 rebels met representatives of a…
