Cape Town – From South Africa and Ivory Coast signing 10 MoUs to deepen trade and investment ties between the two countries; to Zimbabwe’s main airport operating without any radar systems… Read these and other stories making the headlines from around the African continent.
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South Africa, Ivory Coast sign 10 MoUs ‘to deepen trade and investment’ ties
South Africa has signed 10 memoranda of understanding (MoU) with Ivory Coast, as the two countries aimed at deepening trade and investment ties. Read more…
Zimbabwe’s main airport operating without radar
Planes are landing at Zimbabwe’s main international airport without any radar systems to guide air traffic controllers, a lawmaker said in a video released on Friday. Read more…
Omicron empties South Africa safari lodges
Sabine Stam didn’t expect to have her feet up, sipping white wine on the deck of a half-empty safari lodge near South Africa’s Kruger National Park. Read more…
Senegal streets empty as transport workers extend strike
Senegal’s transport unions went on open-ended strike on Friday over alleged police harassment and illicit competition, paralysing the capital Dakar and other regions. Read more…
Tunisia’s Saied moves revolution anniversary
Tunisia’s president Kais Saied said on Thursday he would move the official anniversary of the country’s revolution, a symbolic shift indicating that the revolt is unfinished. Read more…
WATCH | Cyril Ramaphosa honoured with chieftaincy during state visit to Ivory Coast
President Cyril Ramaphosa was on Thursday honoured with the status of chieftaincy by the governor of the Autonomous District of Abidjan, Robert Beugré Mambé, in Ivory Coast. Read more…
DRC struggles with Covid vaccine push
A year ago, the world kicked off one of the greatest initiatives in medical history: the rush to vaccinate Earth’s human population against Covid-19. Read more…
Hunger stalks jihadist-battered Niger
Few countries in the world struggle with as many burdens as Niger.
The arid Sahel state is the world’s poorest country according to the UN’s Human Development Index. It faces bloody jihadist insurgencies on two of its borders. And now it is being stalked by hunger. Read more…
Two Benin soldiers killed in jihadist attack in north, military sources say
Two soldiers were killed on Thursday when jihadists attacked a military post in north Benin near the border with Burkina Faso, military sources said, in a rare Islamist militant assault in the West African state. Read more…
Halala! Zimbabwe’s ‘Madam Boss’ bags African Social Star Award
Zimbabwean TikTok sensationalist ‘Madam Boss’, real name Tyra Chikocho, was named the African Social Star at this year’s E! People’s Choice Awards. Read more…
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