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Africa is hurting again from a global crisis it had no part in starting
19+ hour, 59+ min ago (869+ words) LAGOS, Nigeria " Lagos taxi driver Adegbola Isaac went to the gas station twice last weekend. Each time, the price in the Nigerian city had climbed further and hit 1,350 naira ($0.99) per liter, a nearly 35% increase since the Iran war started. That's…...
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South Africa arrests 12 senior police officers on suspicion of corruption
3+ day, 13+ hour ago (541+ words) JOHANNESBURG " Anti-graft investigators in South Africa have arrested 12 senior police officers on allegations of corruption and fraud, prosecutors said Wednesday. The arrests come while an inquiry, ordered by President Cyril Ramaphosa, continues into allegations of high-ranking corruption in the South…...
The G20 summit in South Africa ends with the glaring absence of the US after Trump's boycott
4+ mon, 5+ day ago (725+ words) JOHANNESBURG " The Group of 20 summit in South Africa ended Sunday with the glaring absence of the United States " the next country to lead the bloc " after the Trump administration boycotted the two days of talks involving leaders of the world's…...
Madagascar's president fires the government following days of deadly Gen Z protests
5+ mon, 4+ week ago (607+ words) Rajoelina said in a speech on national television that Prime Minister Christian Ntsay and other government officials would stay on an interim basis until a new government is formed. He invited applications for government positions and gave a three-day time…...
Scientists in South Africa are making rhino horns radioactive to fight poaching
7+ mon, 4+ week ago (288+ words) Under the collaborative project involving the University of the Witwatersrand, nuclear energy officials and conservationists, five rhinos were injected in what the university hopes will be the start of a mass injection of the declining rhino population. They're calling it…...
US deports immigrants from Jamaica, Cuba, and other countries to the African kingdom of Eswatini
8+ mon, 1+ week ago (855+ words) The U.S. has already deported eight men to another African country, South Sudan, after the Supreme Court lifted restrictions on sending people to countries where they have no ties. The South Sudanese government has declined to say where those men, also…...
South Africa's president visits flood sites with death toll at 78 and expected to climb
9+ mon, 2+ week ago (521+ words) President Cyril Ramaphosa traveled to the town of Mthatha in Eastern Cape province, where the floods hit hardest when they began early Tuesday. Ramaphosa attended a briefing by officials from the National Disaster Management Center and also visited a bridge…...
South Africa denies trying to bend the rules to give Musk's Starlink preferential treatment
10+ mon, 1+ day ago (488+ words) Under South African law, foreign-owned companies are required to sell 30% of their subsidiaries to shareholders who are Black, or from other racial groups disadvantaged under the former apartheid system of white minority rule, in order to acquire a license. However,…...