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Mon, 20 Dec 2021 11:28:32 +0000News24.com | Lesotho makes vaccines mandatory to access workplaces, services
Lesotho has instructed its security forces to ensure all citizens who work in neighbouring South Africa and returned home for the year-end holidays are inoculated against the coronavirus.
Sun, 19 Dec 2021 12:01:30 +0000News24.com | 'Disgraceful for humanity' - Erdogan pledges 15 million Covid-19 vaccine doses for Africa
Turkey will send 15 million Covid-19 vaccine doses to Africa, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced.
Tue, 09 Nov 2021 12:14:47 +0000News24.com | WATCH | All the latest news videos from around Africa
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Sun, 19 Dec 2021 09:04:05 +0000News24.com | Sudan braces for new protests three years after revolution
Opposition activists in Sudan were set for new protests Sunday to mark the third anniversary of mass demonstrations that ended the dictatorship of president Omar al-Bashir as fears mount for the democratic transition.
Sat, 18 Dec 2021 13:14:44 +0000Businessinsider.co.za | Ancient Egyptian mummies with gold tongues were discovered inside a tomb dating back 2,500 years
Archeologists discovered a man and woman's mummified remains in a tomb at El Bahnasa, Egypt, buried with gold tongue-shaped amulets in their mouth.
Sat, 18 Dec 2021 08:55:11 +0000News24.com | EXPLAINER | What's behind the protests rocking Malawi
The countrywide protests have been sparked because of the high cost of living, unemployment and a faltering economy.
Fri, 17 Dec 2021 19:37:57 +0000News24.com | Why the southern African region could be negatively impacted in 2022
The situation was made worse by the Covid-19 pandemic, the effects of which will be felt for years to come.
Fri, 17 Dec 2021 12:31:29 +0000News24.com | Fuel supply hiccups characterise Zambia price increase as austerity kicks in
Fri, 17 Dec 2021 08:16:13 +0000News24.com | SA to donate more than 2 million vaccines to other African countries
The South African government has agreed to donate more than two million doses of the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine, worth R288.6, million to other African countries.
Fri, 17 Dec 2021 07:36:35 +0000News24.com | Human Rights Watch calls on Cameroon to bring separatists disrupting education to justice
Cameroon's government must shift its focus from military-backed attacks to justice, in its efforts to quell violence in the country's Anglophone regions, Human Rights Watch says.
Fri, 17 Dec 2021 06:05:46 +0000News24.com | Media crackdown in Lesotho as radio station banned for a few weeks
Lesotho's privately owned radio station 357 FM has been taken off the air and will only return to broadcasting on 10 January in what that country's Media Institute of Southern Africa says is a gag on media freedom.
Thu, 16 Dec 2021 20:41:54 +0000News24.com | DR Congo declares end to latest Ebola outbreak
The Democratic Republic of Congo has said that the latest Ebola outbreak was officially over, as the country marked 42 days with no new cases.
Thu, 16 Dec 2021 18:34:12 +0000News24.com | Malawi makes Covid-19 vaccines mandatory for frontline workers
Malawi will make Covid-19 vaccines mandatory for frontline staff including health workers and journalists, health minister Khumbize Kandodo Chiponda said on Thursday, as the country grapples with a surge in new infections.
Thu, 16 Dec 2021 18:34:12 +0000News24.com | Rights groups sound alarm over new atrocities in Ethiopia
Security forces allied to Ethiopia's army are rounding up and killing Tigrayan civilians in a fresh wave of ethnic violence in the country's brutal war, two rights groups said Thursday.
Thu, 16 Dec 2021 16:32:26 +0000News24.com | Libyans in dark over election with eight days to go
Eight days before Libyans were meant to cast presidential votes, there is utter confusion over the fate of an election that has not yet been formally delayed but that has almost no chance of going ahead on time.
Thu, 16 Dec 2021 14:30:14 +0000News24.com | Uganda tests drones to speed up delivery of HIV medicine
KALANGALA, Uganda, Dec 16 - Uganda is delivering HIV medicine by drone in an archipelago in Lake Victoria, a pilot programme aiming to improve the transport of medical supplies for the country's health system, which faces chronic shortages.
Thu, 16 Dec 2021 13:15:20 +0000News24.com | Human Rights Watch says Cameroonian separatists target schools
An international human rights group on Thursday accused separatist fighters in Cameroon's Anglophone regions of systematically targeting schools, students and teachers during a civil war that has killed thousands of people.
Thu, 16 Dec 2021 12:23:03 +0000News24.com | Covid-19 vaccine boost: Billionaire Dr Patrick Soon-Shiong to invest in Botswana
South African-born billionaire Dr Patrick Soon-Shiong looks set to establish a Covid-19 and cancer vaccine centre in Botswana.
Thu, 16 Dec 2021 12:15:10 +0000News24.com | Ethiopia urged to free reporters held under emergency laws
Ethiopian authorities must immediately free all detained journalists and stop using wartime emergency laws to lock up reporters for doing their jobs, a press freedom watchdog said Thursday.
Thu, 16 Dec 2021 11:03:04 +0000News24.com | Southern African countries to lose billions as UK plans to ban importation of hunting trophies
Southern African countries stand to lose billions of US dollars in wildlife and tourism revenue if the United Kingdom passes into law a bill that seeks to ban the importation of hunting trophies.