With 2024 drawing to a close, it’s time to start planning your holidays, especially as 2025 offers exciting long weekends all year round. Here’s a month-by-month look at the long weekends that await you: January 2025: Long weekend We begin with a long weekend in January, from 12 January (Sunday) to 14 January (Tuesday), which […]
The authorities in Niger have suspended the BBC for three months over the channel’s coverage of an extremist attack that is believed to have killed dozens of Nigerien soldiers and civilians, the authorities said on Thursday. ‘The BBC broadcasts false information aimed at destabilising society and undermining the morale of troops’, Communication Minister Raliou Sidi […]
Neptune Oil, a significant distributor and retailer in Central Africa received the first export of 60,000 tons of refined petroleum which is the first international purchaser of petroleum from the Dangote refinery is Cameroon. The firm stated that it will be collaborating with the refiner in order to create a stable supply chain that would […]
Clashes have broken out in a town in southern Somalia between forces of the country’s federal government and regional troops from the state of Jubbaland, amid escalating tensions following a disputed regional election. Officials on both sides said the fighting, which lasted for hours in the town of Raskamboni on Wednesday, had subsided by midday. […]
Health officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo are urgently studying a flu-like illness that has killed 31 people in the hospitals and 44 in the community while lab results indicate that it is malaria. The director-general of the National Institute for Biomedical Research, Jean-Jacques Muyembe, said that 9 out of 12 samples were positive […]
Negotiations for an Economic Partnership Agreement that would establish a free trade zone between the UAE and the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) have been finalized. According to announcements made by Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi who is the Minister of State for Foreign Trade and Andrey Slepnev who is the Minister of Trade of the […]
On 9 December, OpenAI made its Sora video generator available to certain ChatGPT users, as part of the ‘shipmas’ announcement cascade. The organisation first demonstrated Sora’s capabilities in February 2024. In the months since, it has built a faster version and explored how to deliver AI video generators responsibly. OpenAI’s focus on Sora’s safety is […]
An undetermined number of persons were arrested by Kenyan police on Tuesday after they fired tear gas canisters at hundreds of protesters opposing femicide or gender based violence in Kenya’s capital Nairobi. “Stop killing women!” was screamed by several hundred protesters the majority of whom were women as they blew whistles in Nairobi. Police officers […]
The South Africa and Pakistan cricket teams will come face to face in the first T20I game of their three-match series on December 10 at Kingsmead stadium in Durban. The match, scheduled to begin at 9:30 PM IST (6:00 PM Johannesburg Time), it sets the stage for the much awaited match between these two cricketing […]
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is making waves as a global pioneer in artificial intelligence (AI), positioning itself at the forefront of the technology revolution. With AI at the heart of its strategy for economic diversification and sustainable growth, the UAE is ambitiously integrating this transformative technology across all industries, fuelling innovation and reshaping the […]
A private partnership between the United Arab Emirates and Morocco intends to invest up to $25 billion in a green hydrogen and ammonia plant in the North African nation. The Moroccan government has previously given Dahamco permission to establish the project in the controversial Western Sahara’s Atlantic port of Dakhla. The president of Dahamco Tom […]
Burkina Faso’s military ruler, Captain Ibrahim Traoré, has dismissed his prime minister, Apollinaire Joachim Kyelem de Tambela, and dissolved the entire government. The dismissal of the head of government and his cabinet was announced in a decree signed by the head of the junta on Friday. The decree does not specify the reasons for the […]
In a spectacular rescue operation about 150 miners were freed from an abandoned gold mine in Mpumalanga province South Africa uncovering a variety of circumstances of human trafficking and bonded labor. Three people were found during the initial search operation which visibly affirmed the volatile environment that exists underground. The rescued miners, the majority of […]
The much awaited Everton vs Liverpool match has been postponed due to the bad weather after the origination of Atlantic Storm Darragh and the safety of visitors. “Premier League” globally celebrated football league commenced in August 2024. Today’s match between Everton Vs Liverpool has been postponed due to the poor weather, highly anticipated winds, heavy […]
City of Tshwane’s Emergency Services have confirmed that a fire broke out at the Netcare Pretoria East Hospital on Thursday. Parts of the hospital went up in flames after solar panels on top of some sections of the hospital caught fire. Coetzee Minister for Community Safety in Tshwane, was at the scene and said all […]
The hashtag of National Shutdown is trending in social platform X formerly known as twitter. The #NationalShutdown is on number one with over 15.8k just in one day. This hashtag is trending with the message to the South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to resign from his position. The citizens of South Africa are starting a […]
ccording to the most recent data, the United Arab Emirates came in first on the list of nations that have contributed the most to aiding Gaza and its citizens in the midst of the continuing conflict between Israel and Hamas. The German Press Agency reports that since the crisis started in October 2023, the UAE […]
A landmark legal verdict has just been passed out by a Kenyan court; Jacktone Odhiambo is found guilty of activist Edwin Chiloba’s gruesome murder in a ruling that sends crucial human rights signals across the nation. The case which was a major let down of Kenyans and citizens of the world was a gruesome one, […]
The more than 700 trucks carrying food aid are expected to reach communities in Sudan where many people are suffering from hunger. War in Sudan has caused widespread famine, if not famine itself. It has driven people from their farms. Markets for foodstuffs are scarce, prices have risen and humanitarian organisations say they are finding […]
Following the ‘bleeding eye virus’ panic haunting Africa, health officials have issued a warning after an unidentified illness with flu-like symptoms killed almost 150 people since it was discovered in the southwestern Congo. The deaths occurred in the Panzi health zone of Kwango province between November 10 and November 25. In order to identify the […]