Cape Town – From South Africa’s police minister Bheki Cele releasing the latest crime statistics; to an attack on an Ethiopian refugee camp killing at least five people… Read these and other stories making the headlines from around the African continent.
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‘Murder remains worryingly stubborn’ in SA, says Bheki Cele as he releases latest crime statistics
South Africa’s already alarming number of murders and rapes kept increasing at the end of 2021, the police minister announced on Friday. Read more…
Tunisians fear more economic pain as IMF talks loom
Every day at the family grocery stall in a Tunis market, Bilel Jani sees the reality of a biting economic crisis, which for many has overshadowed Tunisia’s latest political turmoil. Read more…
Angola’s oil exports rose last year as prices soared
Angola, the second largest crude producer in sub-Saharan Africa, on Thursday said oil exports rose 3% during the last three months of 2021 as energy prices soared. Read more…
Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema has expressed confidence that he will one day be elected South Africa’s next president, whether AfriForum “likes it or not”. Read more…
WATCH | Tempers flare between black and white parents at Jan Viljoen Hoerskool
An altercation reportedly ensued between white and black parents, who converged at Jan Viljoen Hoerskool in Randfontein, Westrand, Johannesburg on Thursday, to hear Gauteng education MEC Panyaza Lesufi speak following an alleged racially-motivated clash between black and white learners at the school. Read more…
Members of the ANC in Parliament’s Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa) reportedly used their majority to vote down a proposal for President Cyril Ramaphosa to appear before the committee to answer questions about the misuse of state funds for political campaigns. Read more…
Attack on Ethiopia refugee camp kills five, displaces thousands, says UN
Fighting in northern Ethiopia’s Afar region has “engulfed” a camp housing refugees from neighbouring Eritrea, killing five and forcing thousands to flee, the UN said on Friday. Read more…
Six African countries to get own mRNA jab production
Six African countries have been chosen to establish their own mRNA vaccine production, the World Health Organisation said Friday, with the continent largely shut out of access to Covid jabs. Read more…
WATCH | ‘She was complex… but she was so gentle!’ – Kuli Roberts laid to rest
Media personality Kuli Roberts was laid to rest on Thursday at a private and intimate family ceremony in Johannesburg. Read more…
‘I never said I was going to quit F1,’ says Lewis Hamilton
Lewis Hamilton insisted on Friday he never said he was going to quit Formula One despite the traumatic end to his 2021 world championship campaign. Read more…
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