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South Africa’s coal-dependent economy could lose billions in export revenue and thousands of jobs as more countries and companies seek carbon-free imports, the Net Zero Tracker watchdog said Monday.Africa’s most industrialised nation is one of the largest polluters in the world and generates about 80 percent of its electricity through coal.This makes it “uniquely vulnerable” …

SAfrica’s coal dependency puts economy at risk: reportMon, 09 Jun 2025 06:27:55 GMT Read More »

Kenya is marking a year since massive protests broke out over tax rises and corruption in mid-June 2024.  The protests peaked on June 25 when thousands stormed parliament where lawmakers were debating the budget. President William Ruto, having initially called the demonstrators “criminals”, backtracked and cancelled the finance bill on June 26.The protests continued into July …

Timeline: Kenya’s year of post-protest abductions, arrestsMon, 09 Jun 2025 05:28:35 GMT Read More »

The Russian paramilitary group Wagner has left Mali and its units there have been taken over by the Moscow-run Africa Corps, diplomatic and security sources told AFP on Sunday.”Officially, Wagner is no longer present in Mali. But the Africa Corps is stepping up,” one diplomatic source in the Sahel region said. A Telegram account affiliated with …

Wagner replaced by Russia’s Africa Corp in Mali: diplomatic sourcesSun, 08 Jun 2025 16:30:57 GMT Read More »

South Africa batsman Aiden Markram insists there will be no mental scarring from his side’s previous failures when they face holders Australia in the World Test Championship final at Lord’s.The Proteas have suffered several agonising near-misses in major tournaments, including last year’s T20 World Cup final in Barbados.They needed just 30 more runs to win, …

Markram says South Africa woes ‘buried’ ahead of WTC finalSun, 08 Jun 2025 14:55:58 GMT Read More »

Barely feeling the tranquiliser shot, the panic-stricken female rhinoceros ran to take shelter in a wooded area, eluding the low-flying helicopter trying to prevent her escape. The rhino was supposed to be transferred to another park in Kenya on Saturday, but outsmarted the humans. A few minutes later, rangers in 4×4 vehicles searched through thickets too dense …

How to move a rhinoSun, 08 Jun 2025 10:26:26 GMT Read More »

A small charity on the Kenyan coast has become vital to the region’s majestic turtle population, saving thousands from poachers, fishermen’s nets and ever-worsening plastic pollution. On the beach of the seaside town of Watamu, it takes four men to heave the huge Loggerhead sea turtle into the back of a car. She has just been saved …

Kenya NGO saves turtles from nets, plastic and rising tidesSat, 07 Jun 2025 06:03:12 GMT Read More »

In a show of strength, police officers in Togo deployed in large numbers across the capital Lome on Friday, putting an end to a rare demonstration against the government.President Faure Gnassingbe has led Togo since 2005, succeeding his father who ruled for nearly four decades.Young people and civil society activists had called for Friday’s protests …

Togo police bring an end to rare anti-government protestsFri, 06 Jun 2025 17:34:29 GMT Read More »

The Malian military withdrew from a major base in the centre of the country Friday after it came under a second deadly attack in less than a week, according to multiple sources, as the country faces an uptick in jihadist assaults.At least 30 soldiers were killed at the Boulkessi army base in central Mali on Sunday …

Mali military withdraws from base after second deadly attack in daysFri, 06 Jun 2025 14:01:57 GMT Read More »

Jihadists have intensified their offensives in the Sahel region in recent weeks, carrying out bloody raids in Mali, incursions into major cities in Burkina Faso and inflicting heavy army losses in Niger.The three Sahel states’ military juntas, who had pledged during the coups that brought them to power to make security a priority, are struggling …

Surging jihadist violence in Sahel fuels fears unrest may spreadFri, 06 Jun 2025 05:30:33 GMT Read More »

US President Donald Trump has signed a travel ban on 12 mostly Middle Eastern and African countries, reviving a controversial measure from his first term expected to trigger a fresh wave of legal challenges.Trump said on Wednesday the measure was spurred by a makeshift flamethrower attack on a Jewish protest in Colorado that US authorities …

Trump slaps new travel ban on 12 countriesFri, 06 Jun 2025 01:50:31 GMT Read More »