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Pravin Gordhan, who held three positions in South Africa’s cabinet and won plaudits for standing up to Jacob Zuma during his scandal-marred presidency died at 75 years Gordhan died in hospital in the early hours of Friday morning after battling cancer, his family said in an emailed statement. A veteran anti-apartheid activist and high-ranking member…
People have been killed and injured after a huge fire broke out at an ammunition depot in Chad, causing major explosions, senior government ministers have said. Foreign Minister Koulamallah Abderaman said the blaze happened at a military depot in the Goudji area of the capital, N’Djamena. President Mahamat Idriss Deby sent his condolences to the…
South Africa’s governing African National Congress (ANC) and the main opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) have agreed to form a government of national unity, along with two smaller opposition parties. This follows weeks of speculation about who the ANC would partner with after losing its parliamentary majority for the first time in 30 years, in last…
The UN Security Council has demanded that Sudanese paramilitary forces call off their eight-week siege of El Fasher, a city in Darfur region where fighting has sparked genocide concerns. Sudan’s army has been fighting the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) for more than a year, in a civil war that has killed thousands and forced…
Russian mercenaries, operating under the Wagner Group, are intensifying their pursuit of the infamous warlord Joseph Kony in the Central African Republic (CAR). Kony, accused of abducting thousands of children to serve as soldiers and sex slaves, in his Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), has evaded capture for decades. Recent reports suggest that the Wagner Group…
An elite unit of South Africa’s police has raided the Johannesburg home of the speaker of parliament, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, over corruption allegations. She has been accused of soliciting bribes in return for awarding contracts when she served as defence minister. “The Speaker steadfastly upholds her strong conviction of innocence,” said a statement from parliament. The…
The Ambassador of the Federal Democratic Republic Ethiopia to Uganda and Burundi Etsegenet Bezabih Yimenu on Friday, March 1st joined the Ethiopian community in Uganda and friends of Ethiopia in commemorating the 128th anniversary of Ethiopia’s triumph against the Colonial Army of Italy in the Battle of Adwa. In Early March 1896, Under the Command…
Yesterday, at the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa, African Heads of State and Uganda’s No.2 Maj. Jessica Alupo revealed a special monument of former Tanzanian president Mwalimu Julius Nyerere. The statue was erected at the Julius Nyerere Peace and Security Building. Elias Magosi, the Executive Secretary of the economic bloc SADC, stated that the…
This morning, something momentous occurred in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa at the African Union headquarters! The African Heads of State alongside our dear Vice President Maj. Jessica Alupo converged at Julius Nyerere Peace and Security building at the African Union headquarters and unveiled a special monument in honour of Dr Mwalimu Julius Nyerere. Nyerere…
Two South African soldiers were killed and three were wounded during a mortar strike in DR Congo, the South African military said, adding that the details were “still sketchy.” South Africa’s mission to help bring peace and security to the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has gotten off to a deadly start. The South…
