By Rédaction Africanews with AP The chief executive of South Africa’s troubled power utility Eskom has resigned amid high nationwide power blackouts of up to 10 hours daily. The resignation of Andre de Ruyter comes amid pressure from the public and various stakeholders as Eskom has failed to keep the lights on, plunging South Africa,…
Reuters JOHANNESBURG, Dec 13 (Reuters) – MTN South Africa (MTNJ.J) and MTN GlobalConnect, in partnership with a consortium, have landed a 45,000 kilometre subsea cable in South Africa, part of plans to build a subsea network to connect African countries to Europe and the Middle East. Africa’s big economies have a fast growing population of…
Reuters JOHANNESBURG, Dec 14 (Reuters) – The South African rand was steady in early trade on Wednesday as investors awaited the release of consumer inflation and retail sales numbers. At 0555 GMT, the rand traded at 17.2550 against the dollar, 0.1% weaker than its Tuesday close. Statistics South Africa is due to publish November consumer…
Reuters JOHANNESBURG, Dec 14 (Reuters) – South African retail sales fell 0.6% year on year in October after falling by a revised 0.4% in September, Statistics South Africa figures showed on Wednesday. On a month-on-month basis, sales were up 0.4%. Sales in the three months to the end of October were up 0.3% compared with…
By Rédaction Africanews By AFP This week is decisive for South African President Cyril Ramaphosa: destabilized by a scandal involving mysterious sums of cash, his political future hangs on the possible launch of an impeachment procedure on Tuesday, before a vote by the ruling party to a second term. The 70-year-old head of state, who is…
By Rédaction Africanews with AFP The national airline Royal Air Maroc (RAM) will operate nearly 30 special flights between Casablanca and Doha on Tuesday (November 13) and Wednesday (November 14) to bring Moroccan fans to the World Cup semi-final against France. “To allow the many Moroccans wishing to support the national team in its epic…
By XINHUA Zimbabweans will see a vast improvement in electricity supplies in 2023 as the government removes barriers to power generation investments in the country, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said. The government would take extraordinary measures to ensure that Zimbabwe does not have severe power shortages, said Mnangagwa in his weekly column in the state-run Sunday Mail….
Ahram Online , Monday 12 Dec 2022 The Ministry of Health and Population announced on Monday that it had detected the country’s fourth positive case of monkeypox (Mpox) in a person who was in contact with the previously infected individual. Monkeypox According to the ministry, the 34-year-old patient’s condition is stable and he is currently…
By Daniel Bellamy The Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific group of states, which represents 79 countries, held its penultimate meeting in Angola’s capital Luanda on Friday. It’s the tenth heads of state summit that the OACPS has held and the first of three that Angola will hold as the rotating presidency. The theme for…
Ahram Online , Friday 9 Dec 2022 Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi renewed calls for Ethiopia to engage in good faith with Egypt and Sudan to reach a legally binding agreement on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) in his speech on Friday during the first China-Arab Summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. “I renew the call for…
