Air travel between Libya and Italy will resume in September after a nearly decade-long suspension following an EU ban, the head of the Tripoli-based UN-backed government said on Sunday 9 July 2023. “The Italian government has informed us of its decision to lift the air embargo imposed on Libyan civil aviation for 10 years,” interim […]

Russia attacked Kyiv in an overnight drone strike, causing minor damage, authorities said Tuesday as NATO leaders prepare for a summit focused on supporting Ukraine against Moscow’s invasion. ALSO READ: Russia takes control of Wagner’s heavy military equipment “The enemy attacked Kyiv from the air for the second time this month,” Kyiv’s military administration said on its Telegram […]

A Rwandan member of the so-called blue helmets United Nations peacekeeping force was killed Monday in an attack by an armed group in the Central African Republic, a UN spokesman said. “Earlier today a peacekeeper from Rwanda was killed when his unit came under attack by members of an unidentified armed group” during a patrol of […]

Conflict-torn Sudan is on the brink of a “full-scale civil war” that could destabilise the entire region, the United Nations warned Sunday 9 July 2023 after an air strike on a residential area killed around two dozen civilians. The Ministry of Health reported “22 dead and a large number of wounded among the civilians” from […]

The Threads app launched by Instagram as a rival to Twitter has signed up more than 100 million users in less than five days, data tracking websites said on Monday, smashing the record of AI tool ChatGPT for fastest-growing consumer app. ALSO READ: Legal battle? Mark Zuckerberg’s Threads vs Elon Musk’s Twitter While ChatGPT took two months to […]

A rare snowfall dusted Johannesburg and other high-lying parts of South Africa on Monday, with weather services warning of potential road closures and dangerously cold temperatures. ALSO READ: Snow, very cold weather expected in THESE parts of Mpumalanga Residents in the business hub woke up to snowfalls lightly covering rooftops and gardens as a cold front […]

Human Rights Watch on Monday urged a halt to a major East African oil project led by French giant TotalEnergies, warning of dire consequences for the environment and local communities. TotalEnergies and the China National Offshore Oil Corporation signed a $10-billion agreement last year to develop Ugandan oilfields and ship the crude through a 1,445-kilometre (900-mile) […]

Nigeria imposed a 24-hour curfew in a north-central region after more tit-for-tat attacks killed at least another nine people. The move was imposed Sunday in Mangu district in Plateau State followed two months of clashes between nomadic herders and pastoral farmers that community leaders say left more than 200 dead. ALSO READ: Viral Video: Nigerian youths […]

South Africa’s crushing electricity outages could end sooner than expected as power generation is being ramped up, an upbeat cabinet minister said on Sunday 9 July 2023. The state energy firm Eskom has been imposing daily scheduled blackouts, called load-shedding, to safeguard the grid whenever demand outstrips supply due to underperforming power plants. ALSO READ: South […]

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said Sunday 9 July 2023 that next month’s BRICS summit, which Vladimir Putin has been invited to attend, will be held in person despite an arrest warrant on the Russian leader. South Africa is the current chair of the BRICS, a grouping of heavyweights that also includes Brazil, Russia, India […]

Mark Cavendish crashed out of the Tour de France on Saturday ending the British cyclist’s quest to break the all-time record of stage wins. Mark Cavendish crashed out of the Tour de France on Saturday ending the star British cyclist’s quest to break the all-time record of stage wins. ALSO READ | Tour de France: Chris Froome left off […]

The company that operated the sub which imploded during a dive into the Titanic wreck, killing all five people aboard, said Thursday 6 July 2023 it had halted all activities indefinitely. The Titan sub was reported missing on June 18 and the US Coast Guard said on June 22 that the vessel had suffered a […]

Twitter threatened to sue Meta just hours after the Instagram parent company launched Threads, an app it hopes will beat out the struggling site owned by Elon Musk. In a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, published by online news outlet Semafor on Thursday, Musk’s lawyer Alex Spiro accused the company of “unlawful misappropriation of […]

Armed men attacked a logistics convoy of the UN mission in the north of Mali on Thursday 6 July 2023, a source at the UN peacekeeping mission told AFP. “Unidentified armed individuals opened fire against a logistics convoy of the Minusma force moving from the (locality of) Labbezanga to Gao, the source said. Gao is the […]

An armed attack in northern Burkina Faso, an area plagued by jihadist violence, has left about 10 civilians dead, security and local sources told AFP on Thursday 6 July 2023. A large group of armed men descended on the village of Sampelga, some 40 kilometres (25 miles) from the northeastern town of Dori in the […]

Zimbabwe’s leading opposition said on Thursday 6 July 2023 that police arrested eight of its supporters after banning a campaign rally, in a move the party denounced as part of an escalating crackdown ahead of national elections. The southern African country, where the ruling ZANU-PF party has been in power since 1980, is bracing for […]

At least six people have been killed in a conflict over land in northern DR Congo that has already claimed dozens of lives, local officials said Thursday 6 July 2023. Armed men on Monday attacked the village of Babusoko, 35 kilometres (22 miles) from Kisangani, the capital of Tshopo province, they said. “We buried five […]

South Africa’s crippling blackouts have shrunk from up to 12 hours a day to just over two hours daily in recent weeks, after inflicting a massive hit on the economy. The improvement has surprised many citizens who had become hardened to the rolling outages, imposed by state utility Eskom to safeguard the grid whenever demand […]

Senegal’s main opposition politician on Thursday warned of “indescribable chaos” if he is unable to contest February’s election, in his first comments since President Macky Sall confirmed he would not seek another mandate. “There will be no elections in this country, or there will be indescribable chaos if President Macky Sall uses judicial tricks to […]

Kubik is proud of its pioneering, climate-friendly technology that recycles one of the world’s environmental curses — plastic waste — into construction blocks. But for the award-winning Ethiopian startup to achieve liftoff has been no easy task. It has had to fight tooth and nail to raise funds, says its youthful boss. KUBIK Kubik takes […]

Ethiopia’s upper house of parliament on Wednesday 5 July 2023 approved the creation of a 12th regional state after the latest referendum for greater self-rule in Africa’s second-most populous country. Voters in part of the ethnically diverse Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region (SNNPR) overwhelmingly supported carving out their state in a referendum in February. […]

The last known pair of Rembrandt portraits in private hands sold for more than £11 million (R273 million) at Christie’s in London on Thursday – nearly 200 years after they first went under the hammer at the auction house. VIRAL | Cheapest groceries in South Africa: Checkers v Pick n Pay v Woolworths – and more The paintings, which are thought to […]

The company that operated the sub which imploded during a dive to the Titanic wreck, killing all five people aboard, said on Thursday it had halted all activities indefinitely. ALSO READ | Cosatu strike: This is what they are demanding The Titan sub was reported missing on June 18 and the US Coast Guard said on June 22 that the […]

At least eight people, including five women and two children, died on Wednesday 5 July 2023 in a new attack in DR Congo’s troubled east, local people told AFP on Wednesday 5 July 2023. Armed men attacked the village of Bungushu in North Kivu province overnight, killing eight people, a worker with the local Red Cross said. […]

Unknown assailants killed three senior police officers in the restive Ethiopian region of Amhara this week, according to the local authorities. Amhara has been the scene of unrest since a controversial move by the federal government earlier this year to dismantle regional forces and integrate them into the national army or regional police. The police […]