South Africa has continued to experience long hours without electricity after eight generation units broke down, the country’s power utility Eskom said Tuesday. South Africa has been experiencing stage-6 load shedding since Monday, having to [Read More]
The Hydroelectric of Cahora Bassa (HCB), Mozambique’s key hydropower generation company, announced Tuesday that it will suspend discharges from the Cahora Bassa Dam to curb the Zambezi River’s flow increases as the country has been [Read More]
The UN Refugee Agency UNHCR and its partners launched an appeal Tuesday, seeking 1.3 billion U.S. dollars to protect and assist 2.2 million South Sudanese refugees in the eastern Africa region. The UNHCR said the [Read More]
Cambodia on Tuesday dispatched a new batch of 98 peacekeepers, including 10 women, to join a United Nations peacekeeping operation in the war-torn Central African Republic (CAR), officials said. Speaking at the send-off ceremony in [Read More]
Unidentified gunmen shot dead nine civilians and wounded three others on Monday at a village in Iraq’s eastern province of Diyala, a local hospital and a security source said. A statement by the Khalis Hospital [Read More]
At least 51 soldiers were killed in the latest ambush in northern Burkina Faso’s Sahel Region, with more bodies of soldiers found as the search operations continue, the army said in a statement released on [Read More]
Zimbabwe is on alert for a possible cholera outbreak following similar outbreaks in neighboring countries, the Ministry of Health and Child Care said on Monday. Rudo Chikodzore, the director for epidemiology and disease Control in [Read More]
The realization of social justice and cohesion in Africa could be a mirage as the unfolding climate crisis tears communities apart besides worsening poverty and inequality, a campaigner said Monday during World Day of Social [Read More]
The United Nations on Monday urged Zimbabwe’s political parties and other stakeholders to ensure general elections to be held later this year are peaceful. Edward Kallon, the UN resident coordinator in Zimbabwe, made the remarks [Read More]
Botswana has deposited its instrument ratifying the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement with African Union Commission Chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat, local media reported. The southern African country becomes the 45th African Union (AU) [Read More]
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