Cape Town – From a UN expert calling for sanctions against Zimbabwe to be scrapped; to Africa’s struggle to inoculate people against Covid-19 risks being hobbled by a shortage of syringes… Read these and other stories making the headlines from around the African continent.
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Ghana’s law curbing LGBT rights sparks Anglican church rift
A proposed law in Ghana to toughen curbs on the LGBT community has triggered a rift between the Archbishop of Canterbury and the local Anglican church, which strongly supports the bill. Read more…
Uganda to reopen schools in January, after almost two years
Ugandan schools, closed since March last year owing to the pandemic, will reopen in January regardless of currently low vaccination uptake, the country’s president said on Thursday. Read more…
Syringe shortfall threatens Africa Covid vaccine drive
Africa’s struggle to inoculate people against Covid-19 risks being hobbled by a shortage of syringes just as supplies of vaccines flood into the continent, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Thursday. Read more…
Zimbabwe sanctions should go as they only worsen crisis, UN expert says
Sanctions against Zimbabwean politicians and institutions should be scrapped because they worsen pre-existing social and economic woes in the troubled southern African nation, a UN expert said on Thursday. Read more…
Mozambique needs political solution to jihadist unrest, civic groups say
Mozambique must find a political solution to end four years of unrest by Islamist militants, civic rights groups said on Thursday, arguing that the government’s military intervention puts the exploitation of natural gas resources ahead of peace and security for local residents and risks fuelling the conflict. Read more…
Massive fuel price hike expected in November, AA warns
The Automobile Association (AA) has warned that motorists are in for a massive fuel price hike in November. Read more…
Libya welcomes back tourists after years of war
Libya has hosted its first group of foreign tourists in a decade, with an excursion to an oasis town deep in the desert previously off-limits to visitors due to years of war. Read more…
South Africa earmarks R50bn for clean energy projects
Coal-dependant South Africa on Thursday announced it was ploughing R50 billion ($3.3 billion) into 25 wind and solar projects in an effort to shift towards clean energy and boost production. Read more…
Singer Amanda Black takes a swipe at politicians for not adhering to Covid-19 regulations
South African singer and songwriter Amanda Benedicta Antony, better known as Amanda Black, has taken to social media to urge political parties to follow Covid-19 regulations while campaigning for local municipal elections. Read more…
Unhappy time for Orlando Pirates captain Happy Jele in bruising draw
Veteran Orlando Pirates captain Happy Jele gifted Royal AM a goal and later retired injured as a bruising South African Premiership clash was drawn 1-1 in Soweto on Thursday. Read more…
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