Category: Africa

9 JUNE 2022Daily Trust (Abuja)By Abbas Jimoh The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has asked the presidential and governorship candidates of the 18 registered political parties to pick and submit the lists of their running mates in the next eight days. INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, said this on Thursday in Abuja at a meeting…

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9 JUNE 2022Daily Maverick (Johannesburg)ANALYSISBy Zukiswa Pikoli Civil society organisations this week raised the alarm about the Department of Social Development and the SA Social Security Agency not paying Social Relief of Distress Grants to millions of poor South Africans for two months, April and May. ‘No one got paid. People are stranded, people are…

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9 JUNE 2022Daily Maverick (Johannesburg)ANALYSISBy Marianne Thamm While the optics of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s suspension of Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane on Thursday — a day after she announced she would be investigating #CouchGate — may not look good from any angle, the decision is not unexpected. On Thursday evening, the President’s Office announced that Ramaphosa…

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9 JUNE 2022UN News Service Five countries have been elected to serve as non-permanent members of the UN Security Council following a vote in the General Assembly on Thursday. Ecuador, Japan, Malta, Mozambique and Switzerland will join the UN body tasked with maintaining global peace and security beginning in January 2023. The President of the…

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South African president Cyril Ramaphosa addresses the African Mining Indaba in Cape Town, May 10, 2022. 9 JUNE 2022Voice of America (Washington, DC) By Vicky StarkCape Town, South Africa — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa addressed parliament Thursday for the first time since a former spy boss last week accused him of hiding millions of…

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1 JUNE 2022Institute for Security Studies (Tshwane/Pretoria)ANALYSISBy Akinola Olojo, Malik Samuel and Idris Mohammed The resurgence of Boko Haram’s breakaway faction, with its al-Qaeda backing, threatens national and regional security. For much of the past decade, Ansaru has largely been an outlier on the terrorism threat landscape. But the group is making a comeback in…

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31 MAY 2022The New Humanitarian (Geneva)By Obi Anyadike Johannesburg, South Africa — ‘We must meet the current humanitarian needs now if we are to avert an even bigger crisis in six months’ time.’ Hammered by four droughts in a row, as many as 17 million people are going hungry in three countries in the Horn…

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1 JUNE 2022allAfrica.comBy Jerry Chifamba Harare — MeerKAT, South Africa’s radio telescope, continues to produce significant new discoveries. Using the telescope located in Meerkat National Park, in the Northern Cape, an international team led by a scientist from the University of Sydney has identified a peculiar neutron star that emits radio signals and rotates extraordinarily…

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