Gunmen on Saturday released 42 people, including 27 students, who were kidnapped from a boarding school last week in the north-central Nigerian state of Niger, its governor said.

The first wave of Covid-19 hit poorer people hardest, according to tests of 405 employees at the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront in Cape Town.

Six years after the HPCSA was found to be in a state of “multisystem organisational dysfunction”, the collapse of a hearing involving a serial-offending doctor has left it facing fresh criticism.

President Joe Biden scored his first legislative win as the House of Representatives passed his $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package early Saturday, though Democrats faced challenges to their hopes of using the bill to raise the minimum wage.

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An environmental and social rights conglomerate has refused to remove statements expressing their displeasure after the protected status of a strategic water source in Mpumalanga was revoked, potentially paving the way for a new coal mine.

Gunmen seized more than 300 girls in a nighttime raid on a school in northwest Nigeria on Friday and are believed to be holding some of them in a forest, police said.

Nigeria is expecting its first 4 million doses of coronavirus vaccines next week from the global COVAX programme for poor and middle-income countries, the World Health Organisation said on Friday.

The government has confirmed that all is on track for the second batch of Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccines to arrive in SA on Saturday.

There is a 60% chance of showers and thundershowers for parts of Limpopo and Gauteng on Saturday, SA Weather Service said.

A Johnson & Johnson scientist said on Friday that the company has received preliminary reports of two cases of severe allergic reactions, including one case of anaphylaxis, in people who had received the company's Covid-19 vaccine.

The head of Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB), Mark Machin, has stepped down after his trip to the United Arab Emirates for vaccination against Covid-19 flouted Canadian government's travel advice and drew criticism.

MTN Group said on Friday it intended to appeal a ruling from the Administrative Court of Damascus to place the company's Syrian business under judicial guardianship and was also considering other steps.

Julies, who had Down syndrome was shot dead, allegedly by police.

Smith was directed to hand over control of his assets to a court appointed curator.

Two new Covid-19 vaccination sites will be added in Gauteng at Dr George Mukhari and Charlotte Maxeke academic hospitals.

US air strikes against Iran-backed militias in eastern Syria killed at least one fighter and wounded several others in what US officials said was a calibrated response to rocket attacks on American personnel in Iraq.

Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa says the country may consider mandatory Covid-19 vaccinations following resistance by the population towards getting the jab.

The Special Tribunal has dismissed an application by two contractors allegedly involved in the R40m Beitbridge border fence project, challenging its jurisdiction to adjudicate on civil recovery proceedings in the matter.

A Rossiya Airlines Boeing 777 cargo plane made an emergency landing at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport on Friday due to a problem with an engine control sensor, the airline said.

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The weather service issued a level 2 warning for severe thunderstorms.

The occupants of a white vehicle opened fire at the victims.

A 54-year-old man was arrested by police in Wentworth, south of Durban, after he allegedly tried smuggling 48 Mandrax tablets, concealed in a cigarette box, to his friend in court.

One man was shot in his car, while two others were found in the basement of a business, each with a gunshot wound.

The high court in Johannesburg on Friday sentenced Dumisani Mkhwanazi, who was in December found guilty of killing University of Johannesburg student Palesa Madiba in 2013, to an effective 31-year jail term.

Police dispersed protesters in Myanmar's two biggest cities on Friday, firing stun grenades, rubber bullets and guns into the air, witnesses said, as the challenge to the army's bid to re-impose its rule showed no sign of slackening.