Russia says it will continue dialogue with China, Brazil and African partners on prospects for a peaceful resolution of the Ukraine crisis. The Russian Foreign Ministry’s statement follows a Russia-African Summit last week at which some African leaders sought to persuade President Vladimir Putin to end the war in Ukraine. Earlier, President[…]
President Cyril Ramaphosa deeply regrets the national energy crisis that has plunged the country into Stage 6 rolling blackouts. Presidential Spokesperson Vincent Magwenya says Ramaphosa acknowledges the frustration of citizens and the adverse impact of load shedding on small businesses and the economy. Magwenya says the President, while acknowledging some progress made[…]
INTERNATIONAL The United Nations’s response to the ongoing crisis in Yemen has been branded “unacceptably poor” in a report produced by an independent evaluation team. Findings released by the Inter-Agency Humanitarian Evaluation (IAHE) of the Response to the Humanitarian Crisis in Yemen provide a damning assessment on the UN’s work in Yemen since 2015, citing[…]
LOCAL The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) has joined a number of organisations calling for the country to be placed under a state of emergency due to the ongoing electricity crisis. Eskom has been implementing up to Stage 6 rolling blackouts due to losses in generation capacity amid the[…]
The displacement camps in the north-western Syrian province of Idlib are suffering from the worsening economic and food crises this Ramadan, with residents barely able to purchase basic essentials due to a mixture of high prices and food shortages. According to the Turkish newspaper Anadolu Agency, Syrians who are displaced from[…]
An unknown man sustained fatal wounds after he jumped from a local shopping centre in Claremont, Cape Town on Monday morning. According to local police, the victim was declared deceased by medical personnel on arrival. Subsequently, an inquest has been opened for further investigation. The country has seen an unfortunate[…]
Lebanon’s financial prosecutor has ordered the arrest of the head of monetary operations at the central bank amid a widening probe into manipulation of the country’s volatile currency. The arrest of Mazen Hamdan late on Thursday marked the first such move against an official at the increasingly embattled institution since[…]
By Anees Teladia Southern parts of Africa have experienced disastrous weather conditions recently. A cyclone known as Cyclone Idai has ravaged South African neighbouring countries like Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe, causing high death tolls and even higher levels of displacement. Accordingly, the Muslim Judicial Council (MJC) has decided to act[…]
European Council President Donald Tusk has issued a stark warning that the European Union had “no more than two months” to tackle the refugee crisis engulfing the 28-nation bloc or else face the collapse of its passport-free Schengen zone. Tusk was speaking to the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Tuesday[…]
Germany has seen no drop in the number of people arriving and seeking asylum despite EU efforts to confront a migration crisis, the deputy interior minister said on Wednesday, blaming a lack of controls at Europe’s borders. More than a million people fleeing the Middle East and Africa arrived in[…]
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