Southern Africa

The Federal Government has created a measure to enhance the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area, AfCFTA, in the insurance industry.

AfCFTA suffers setback as Benin Republic slams CFA9 million on Nigeria-bound transit cargoes

June 20, 2022

We must avoid having two different responses to monkeypox – one for western countries which are only now experiencing significant transmission and another for Africa, said the WHO's Regional Director for Africa, Dr Matshidiso Moeti.

WHO: Africa must not be left behind in monkeypox fight

June 1, 2022

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Southern African countries agree to push for lift on international ivory trade

May 27, 2022

The government of Botswana has dismissed as outrageous claims by former president Ian Khama that his family is under siege and there's a plot to assassinate him.

Botswana dismisses ex-president’s claims of an assassination plot

May 4, 2022

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Report: Nigeria, other African countries to experience sharp food price increases this month if war in Ukraine goes on

May 3, 2022

Botswana’s President Mokgweetsi Masisi is in mandatory self-isolation after testing positive for COVID-19 in routine testing, a government spokesperson said on Monday.

Botswana wants its place among liberation movements in southern Africa

April 15, 2022

Police picked up journalist Gregory Gondwe, who works for the Platform for Investigative Journalism, on Tuesday, after Attorney General Chakaka Nyirenda said he would take action against those who leaked a document which Gondwe used in his story, published on March 30.

Malawi government apologizes over police detention of journalist

April 7, 2022

Empty desks are seen whilst a teacher conducts a lesson to students who shoed up for the first day of schools resumption after a long break due to Covid-19 imposed lockdown on March 15, 2021 in Harare, Zimbabwe. (Tafadzwa Ufumeli-Getty Images)

Zimbabwe: Teachers’ union and government in deadlock over wages

March 18, 2022

Foreign heads of state and government are expected to attend the state funeral of the late former president of Zambia Rupiah Banda at Lusaka Showground on 17 March, a day ahead of his burial at the Presidential Burial Site, Embassy Park.

International leaders expected to attend former Zambian president Rupiah Banda’s state funeral

March 14, 2022

A woman receives her vaccine. Misha Jordaan, Gallo Images

AU and US in partnership for vaccine manufacturing in Africa

March 14, 2022

Shack dwellers look on during a protest against racial and economic inequalities in Kayamandi township near Stellenbosch

Report: South Africa most unequal country in the world

March 10, 2022

In this image made from video, people walk on a road swept by flooding waters in Chikwawa, Malawi, Jan. 25, 2022.

UN kicks off relief assistance to Malawi flood victims

February 2, 2022

A prominent Nigerian virologist and Chairman, expert review Committee on COVID-19, Professor Oyewole Tomori, has said that COVID-19 origin tracing should not be politicised.

Professor Tomori: Too early to predict end to coronavirus pandemic, new variants

January 6, 2022

FILE PHOTO: Archbishop Desmond Tutu, chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) argues a point, October 28, ahead of this week's planned release of the Commissions' final report. The report, detailing Human Rights abuses committed under Apartheid, is due to be handed to President Nelson Mandela by Archbishop Tutu on Thursday. MH/JDP REUTERS/Mike Hutchings/File Photo

Key dates in life of South African anti-apartheid icon Desmond Tutu

December 26, 2021

Pakistani health authorities have confirmed the detection of the country’s first case of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, a week after the South Asian country expanded travel restrictions in an attempt to slow its spread.

Pakistan confirms first case of Omicron coronavirus variant

December 13, 2021