News24.com | Tanzania summons US official over coronavirus warning
Tanzania said on Tuesday it had summoned the top official at the US embassy to object to an advisory that warned of “exponential growth” of Covid-19 cases in the east…
News24.com | Isabel dos Santos seeks to revoke asset freeze over ‘forged’ passport
Angola’s billionaire former first-daughter Isabel dos Santos and her husband are seeking to revoke a court order that froze their assets last year as part of a massive corruption probe,…
News24.com | Zimbabwe frees journalists held for ‘coronavirus breach’
The two Zimbabwean journalists arrested last week as they were investigating the abduction of three opposition party members have been released on bail, a lawyers’ association said on Tuesday. Frank…
News24.com | A world redrawn: Egypt historian Khaled Fahmy sees rising surveillance state
State surveillance is on the rise globally as governments such as Egypt’s take advantage of the coronavirus pandemic, warns exiled historian and intellectual Khaled Fahmy. Amid the Covid-19 crisis, states…
News24.com | The ‘risky business’ of tracking Rwandan fugitive Felicien Kabuga
On May 16, an 84-year-old Rwandan by the name of Felicien Kabuga was arrested from a flat in Asnieres-sur-Seine, on the outskirts of Paris. He had been on the run…
News24.com | Madagascar sends troops, doctors to virus-hit eastern town
Madagascar’s government has announced it will dispatch troops and doctors to an eastern town after several bodies were found in the streets and where two people died from the novel…
News24.com | Burundi ruling party candidate Ndayishimiye wins election
Burundi’s ruling party presidential candidate Evariste Ndayishimiye on Monday was declared the victor of the bitterly disputed election, with 68.72 percent of the vote. The election commission, which released the…
News24.com | We can’t allow Covid-19 to derail efforts to unite, develop continent – Ramaphosa marks Africa Day
President Cyril Ramaphosa says the outbreak of the deadly coronavirus in Africa has exposed how far the continent still has to go before achieving its aspirations of a united and…
News24.com | Africa Day: Covid-19 has multiplied SA’s hardships, but continent will rise – Thandi Modise
The Covid-19 pandemic has multiplied the socio-economic hardships in our country and magnified the disparities, National Assembly Speaker Thandi Modise said as she introduced a virtual public lecture on Africa…