Cape Town – From the Department of Home Affairs saying it intends to reinstate transit visas following the arrest of eight illegal immigrants; to the DRC seeking to bar Rwanda from a proposed regional force in the country… Read these and other stories making the headlines from around the African continent.
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WATCH | Eight foreigners held at OR Tambo airport while trying to enter SA illegally
The Department of Home Affairs says it intends to reinstate transit visas following the arrest of eight illegal immigrants at OR Tambo International Airport. Read more…
DRC calls on UK’s Johnson to pressure Rwanda over row
The Democratic Republic of Congo is seeking to bar Rwanda from a proposed regional force in the country, calling on Britain to pressure Kigali to stop its “aggression”, Kinshasa has said. Read more…
Gunmen suspected to be linked to the Islamic State on Saturday killed 10 people in the latest spate of violence in northeast Nigeria’s Borno state, militia sources told AFP. Read more…
UK slams European court ruling on Rwanda as ‘politically motivated’
Britain’s interior minister Priti Patel suggested in an interview published on Saturday that a European court’s intervention to stop a deportation flight to Rwanda was politically motivated. Read more…
Chad rebels threaten to pull out of Doha talks
Chad rebels due to take part in landmark talks with opposition groups and the military government on Saturday threatened to pull out citing “provocations and attempted aggression” by the government. Read more…
Malawi plunged into darkness by power outage
Malawi, one of the poorest countries on the planet, was on Saturday plunged into darkness due to a major power outage affecting the whole nation, the national energy company (Escom) said. Read more…
WATCH | Angry residents block 75-year-old woman who lived in her car from getting RDP house
A 75-year-old woman from the south of Johannesburg reportedly failed to move into her new RDP home this week after angry residents protested and blocked her from being handed the house. Read more…
Two killed in suspected rebel attack in Rwanda, police say
Two people were killed and six others injured when armed men suspected of belonging to a rebel group shot at a passenger bus in southern Rwanda, police said on Saturday. Read more…
Sudan wheat harvest waits to rot as hunger crisis looms
Looking at the sacks of wheat stacked in Imad Abdullah’s small home, no one would guess that Sudan’s food security is hanging by a thread after an October coup and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Read more…
Study finds more than 50% of footballers suffer online abuse
More than half of footballers playing at the European Championship and African Cup of Nations suffered online abuse, a study published by FIFA revealed on Saturday. Read more…
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