JOHANNESBURG, Nov 3 (Reuters) – Gold miner AngloGold Ashanti (ANGJ.J) posted a 20% jump in third-quarter production on Thursday, helping it bring costs down by 6% from the same period a year earlier. AngloGold, which mines in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Guinea and Tanzania, produced 738,000 ounces of gold in the September quarter,…
By CGTN Africa The United Nations estimates that over 8 million trees are being cut down annually to produce wooden pencils that are used every day. But environmentalists from Kenya-based Green Pencils Limited are determined to significantly decrease deforestation by manufacturing paper pencils. The company has produced up to seven million pieces that are being circulated…
By Halligan Agade The Ethiopian government and the rebel Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) agreed on Wednesday to cease hostilities, a dramatic diplomatic breakthrough two years into a war that has killed thousands, displaced millions and left hundreds of thousands facing famine. Delegates from both sides signed the agreement in the South African capital Pretoria, just…
Grace Kuria , BBC News Gender-based violence and femicide cases continue to rise in South Africa as “violent” men in the country are targeting children and elderly women, the country’s President Cyril Ramaphosa, said. “We have in recent times seen a spate of rapes and killings of elderly women, our mothers and grandmothers that are…
Scientists say that an invasive species of malaria-carrying mosquito from Asia has spread to Africa, where it poses a particular threat to city-dwellers. In Africa, where the majority of global deaths from malaria occur, the disease is mostly spread by a mosquito specific to rural areas. But the Anopheles stephensi species of mosquito, which is…
Kenya’s first athlete to win an Olympic medal Wilson Kiprugut has died aged 84, Athletics Kenya has announced. The middle-distance legend died in Kericho county in Kenya on Wednesday evening after a long illness. Kiprugut made his breakthrough on the international stage after winning the bronze medal in the 800 metres race at the 1964…
The borrowing is likely to stoke fresh worries about the east African country’s ability to repay its rapidly expanding debt Elias Biryabarema, Reuters News KAMPALA, Nov 1 (Reuters) – Uganda is planning to borrow 455 million euros ($452 million) via a syndicated loan from Standard Chartered and other lenders to mainly pay for infrastructure, according to…
By CGTN Africa Nigeria has been ranked in the 103rd spot out of 121 countries by the Global Hunger Index as having serious hunger levels. This is the second consecutive year that Nigeria has been ranked as having one of the worst hunger problems globally. Continued violence in the most populous African nation is affecting millions of…
Western Cape chief of operations Keith Cloete added that the COVID-19 deaths have not increased but they are monitoring any possible spike. Melikhaya Zagagana CAPE TOWN – The Western Cape Health Department said on Tuesday it will continue to monitor COVID-19 particles that are found in wastewater treatment plants in the province. This is to…
Matt Mathers A museum and university say they will repatriate human remains taken from Zimbabwe during the colonial era. Zimbabwe officials want to recover the remains of some of the leaders of an uprising against British rule in the 1980s. One of the most prominent of these leaders in the uprising – known as the First Chimurenga…
