Cape Town – From the AU Chair urging Ukraine to demine waters around its Odessa port to ease grain exports; to seven people being killed in an attack on a displacement camp in DRC. Read these and other stories making the headlines from around the African continent.
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AU chair urges Ukraine to demine Odessa to ease wheat exports
Senegalese President and African Union Chair Macky Sall on Thursday urged Ukraine to demine waters around its Odessa port to ease much-needed grain exports from the war-torn country. Read more…
Seven killed in attack on east DRC camp for displaced
Seven people have been killed in an attack on a displacement camp in the volatile eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, police said on Thursday. Read more…
Venezuela’s Maduro visits Algeria after Turkey
Algeria and Venezuela agreed on Thursday to boost their economic cooperation, as President Nicolas Maduro visited his Algerian counterpart Abdelmadjid Tebboune. Read more…
Mali town under weeks-long jihadist blockade
Jihadists have since late May blockaded the central Malian town of Boni and interrupted traffic on a major highway in the region, the UN and several local sources say. Read more…
Pretoria bus collision kills 15, injures 37
Fifteen people were killed and 37 injured on Friday when a bus and a truck collided on a South African highway near the capital Pretoria, an emergency services spokesperson told AFP. Read more…
Ivory Coast arrests 30 in cocaine swoop
Police in Ivory Coast have arrested around 30 people after making a massive cocaine haul in two port cities, the public prosecutor said on Thursday. Read more…
WATCH | Shops looted in Durban
Shops in the Durban central business district were reportedly looted just hours after midnight on Friday, the same day as the planned National Shutdown over food and petrol price hikes. Read more…
Hospital torched in breakaway Cameroon region
Armed men have set fire to a hospital in one of Cameroon’s anglophone regions, where militants have launched a campaign to separate from the francophone-majority state, state TV said on Thursday. Read more…
Teenage mom, 17, traumatised after being told she went home with wrong baby
Nurses at Prince Mshiyeni Memorial Hospital in Durban reportedly asked a 17-year-old mother, Andiswa Hlongwane, to return a baby who they believed was mistakenly switched with another in the hospital nursery. Read more…
‘When one door closes, another one opens,’ says Zodwa after being banned from Malawi
South African reality star and entertainer Zodwa Wabantu reportedly said that she was upset after being banned from performing in Malawi. Read more…
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