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Two security guards sustain serious injuries after being shot and robbed of their firearms
Two security guards were reportedly shot by two armed suspects who also robbed them of their service rifle and a pistol in an incident that occurred on Thursday at Numbi Gate Road in Salubindza near Masoyi outside White River in Mpumalanga. Read more…
More Ebola trial vaccines arrive in Uganda
Uganda announced on Thursday that it had received shipments of two more trial vaccines to test against a strain of Ebola responsible for dozens of deaths in the East African nation. Read more…
South Africa turns to lie-detectors in anti-poaching war
South Africa plans to carry out lie detector tests on staff working at its game reserves in a bid to fight rampant wildlife poaching, a national parks management agency said on Thursday. Read more…
Fresh clashes between M23 rebels and rivial militia in east DRC
Fresh clashes between the M23 group and a rival militia erupted on Thursday in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), sources said, breaking days of uneasy calm in the volatile region. Read more…
A 32-year-old man was seriously injured after his bakkie, which had reportedly been travelling at high speed, collided with a bus on Old Main Road in Ottawa, KwaZulu-Natal early on Friday morning. Read more…
DRC ex-presidential adviser acquitted of graft
A court in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s capital Kinshasa acquitted an ex-presidential adviser of corruption on Friday, a defence lawyer said, closing a case that provoked uproar in the central African nation. Read more…
Looting, rape stalk Ethiopia’s Tigray despite peace deal
Ethiopia’s allies in the Tigray war have unleashed a campaign of looting, rape and expulsions, residents and humanitarian workers in the northern region say, despite a peace deal to halt the fighting. Read more…
Ethiopia’s warring parties agree to ceasefire monitor
Ethiopia’s government and Tigray’s rebel forces have agreed to create a joint monitoring body to ensure a peace deal to end the country’s brutal war is respected by all sides. Read more…
‘Halala!!!! Yabuya indodana’ – Rachel Kolisi celebrates her brother-in-law’s initiation
CEO of the Kolisi Foundation, Rachel Kolisi has received buckets of praises from users on social media after she took to Instagram to celebrate her brother-in-law passing his initiation. Read more…
Springbok fly-half Visagie dies aged 79
Former Springbok Piet Visagie, called an “amazing” fly-half by South Africa Rugby Union president Mark Alexander, has died at the age of 79, the national body announced on Friday. Read more…
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