Violence in the disputed town of Las Anod in Somaliland, a self-declared independent region of Somalia, has forced more than 185,000 people to leave their homes. This is according to the local office of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA). “More than 185,000 people have been displaced,” Osha wrote […]
According to the president of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), which is an agency of the United Nations, there has been a considerable increase in the number of women and children traveling from the Horn of Africa to Gulf countries through Yemen. This is a matter of alarm (UN). According to IOM Director General […]
Instagram, a photo and video-sharing social networking service owned by Meta Platforms, has announced it will be ending its live shopping feature, which enables the user to tag products in their live broadcasts. Reportedly, the action to discontinue Instagram’s live shopping feature will be implemented from March 16 onwards. Instagram wrote on its support page, […]
Flooding brought on by heavy rains over the past several days prompted South Africa to proclaim a state of national disaster on Monday night. Crisis management centers in many provinces say that seven people have already died and that others have gone missing because of the flooding. The effect of the floods has prompted the […]
The “outbreak” of the Marburg virus has reportedly caused the deaths of nine people in Equatorial Guinea, according to the country’s health minister and the WHO. The hemorrhagic fever has a mortality rate that is almost identical to that of Ebola. According to the country’s health minister, Equatorial Guinea has verified it’s first-ever outbreak of […]
The seventh match of the ICC (International Cricket Council) Women’s World T20 2023 will be played between South Africa and New Zealand on February 13 at Boland Park in Paarl in the Western Cape province of South Africa. South Africa women’s cricket team and New Zealand women’s cricket team will play their second match in […]
In one of the areas of Uganda with the lowest level of resources and the lowest ratio of doctors to patients, where there is only one doctor for every 25,000 people, achievements are not ignored. However, in the Nakaseke district of Uganda, which is approximately 65 kilometers away from the capital city of Kampala, there […]
After the visit to the region by the Russian ambassador, Sergey Lavrov, the foreign ministers of three nations in West Africa that have lately been the target of military coups have appealed for their countries to be readmitted into two important regional blocs. In a joint statement released on Thursday, the top diplomats of Mali, […]
According to Minister of Public Health Malachie Manaouda, Cameroon has limited mobility along the border with Equatorial Guinea in the wake of “many inexplicable deaths” caused by an unknown illness that causes hemorrhagic fever. Manaouda made the announcement on Friday. In a statement, he explained that the limits were put in place because of “the […]
South African beloved and famous rapper Kiernan Forbes, also known as ‘AKA’, was shot dead outside a popular restaurant in Durban, a coastal city in eastern South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province, on Saturday. Many South African artists and celebrities have posted “broken heart” emojis on social media, condoling the death of rapper AKA. The rapper’s family […]
Tech billionaire and the CEO (Chief Executive Officer) of Twitter, Elon Musk, fired a top Twitter engineer who told him he was declining in popularity on the micro-blogging site, according to a report by The Platformer. On Tuesday, Musk met with several Twitter employees to discuss his declining view count on Twitter. In a meeting, […]
An ambush on a supply convoy carrying United Nations soldiers in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) resulted in the deaths of eight civilians, according to a military governor in the region. According to the governor of the North Kivu province, the soldiers were firing “warning bullets” during the violence […]
After installing DStv in your house, the next thing to do is subscribe to a particular DStv package in order to view DStv channels. DStv is geo-restricted and available for people in South Africa. Read this article to know about the latest list of DSTV Compact channels and the up-to-date subscription price in South Africa. […]
According to a new toll that was announced on Monday by the governor of the Sahel region, at least 25 people were killed in an attack that is suspected to have been carried out by jihadists in the northern region of Burkina Faso on Saturday. This includes at least 22 civilians and three police officers. […]
The military junta that now rules Mali announced on Sunday that it was dismissing the head of the UN mission’s human rights section, MINUSMA, and giving him 48 hours to leave the country. The decision was made after a Malian rights activist made a speech at a United Nations conference last month in which he […]
The heads of state in the region have demanded that all parties to the conflict in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo immediately stop fighting. As Congo and its neighboring country, Rwanda, accuse each other of helping armed rebels, tensions are rising in the area, and people are talking about going to […]
According to a statement that was reported by AFP on Friday, a non-governmental organization (NGO) in Burkina Faso that focuses on human rights has accused the army of killing at least 25 people, including a lady and a baby, in the east of the country this week. These allegations were initially met with silence from […]
ChatGPT, a chatbot launched by OpenAI, became the fastest-growing app in the world by reaching 100 million users in a short span of two months. The popular artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot had 13 million daily users in January. It was launched in November 2022. According to a report by SimilarWeb, the chatbot attracted about 25 […]
The ICC (International Cricket Council.) Women’s T20 World Cup 2023 will take place between 10 to 26 February in South Africa. Ten teams will clash to win the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup trophy. The tournament will be played at three venues in South Africa, including Newlands, Boland Park in Paarl, and St George’s Park […]
