Business: Telkom shares are snubbed for cash proposal

Telkom investors have snubbed the board’s request for a regularly occurring authority in the issuance of shares in the telecoms corporation for cash on the grounds the pass could dilute current shareholding structure. The shareholders…

Angolan Doctors Rally Against Police Brutality

Angola: Doctors Protest Against Police Brutality

A Doctor Mysteriously Dies in Police Custody Angola’s Doctors’ Union led around a hundred protesters in a march thru the city centre in Luanda on Saturday to denounce police brutality and demand an investigation into…

Payments for UIF Covid-19 TERS were again halted to resolve gaps found by AG

Business: Payments for UIF Covid-19 TERS were again…

The payments for the new and high-quality applications for the Covid-19 TERS remedy benefits have been halted while the Department of Employment and Labour and the Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) improve controls as urged by…

180 COVID-19 vaccines in development, says WHO

180 COVID-19 vaccines in development – WHO

Around 180 vaccines to combat COVID-19 are in development worldwide, consisting of 35 in human trials, the WHO chief stated on Friday. "No ailment in history has considered such rapid development in research. It's a…

Politics: Voters take part in ‘illegal’ election in…

Ageing war veterans and university students joined long pre-dawn lines in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region to vote Wednesday in parliamentary elections that Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government has deemed illegal. Polls opened at 6am (0300…

13 health workers test positive for COVID-19 in Uganda

Uganda: 13 health workers test positive for COVID-19

Uganda's Ministry of Health on Tuesday suggested 124 new conformed COVID-19 instances taking the East African nation's caseload to 3,900. 13 of the instances have been fitness people accounting for 10.5 percent of all the…

South Africa: Economy Down by 51% in 2nd Quarter

Business: Economy Down by 51% in 2nd Quarter…

South Africa's economy, the most industrialised in Africa, collapsed by using 51% between April and June in light of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the country's information agency. An unheard of decline in GDP used…

Coronavirus sickens more than 182 people in Gaza

The World: Coronavirus sickens more than 182 people…

Palestinian health authorities registered 182 additional coronavirus instances in the blockaded Gaza Strip on Monday. In a statement, the Health Ministry stated the seaside territory’s tally rose to 1,151 cases, consisting of nine deaths, and…