Tags GENERAL ANC Women’s League calls for chemical castration of rapists The influential women’s league of South Africa’s governing ANC has called for the castration of convicted rapists, the Daily Maverick reports.
Tags GENERAL KPMG South Africa to hire external CEO after corruption scandal KPMG South Africa said on Wednesday it was looking for a new chief executive from outside the company to restore
Tags GENERAL Illegal ivory trade flourishes despite ban, report says More African ivory is being smuggled into China from Myanmar and Beijing’s ban on trade in ivory has failed to
Tags GENERAL South Africa’s finance minister to give testimony at Gupta inquiry South Africa’s Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene is due to give evidence on Wednesday at an inquiry into influence-peddling, testimony that
Tags GENERAL Liberia central bank says $104m is not missing Liberia’s central bank on Tuesday sought to reassure the nation, saying it did not lose more than $100 million in
Tags GENERAL Construction of Mozambique-Tanzania highway gets underway The President of Mozambique Filipe Nyusi laid the first stone in the construction of a historical road linking Mozambique and
Tags GENERAL 34 migrants drown in Mediterranean shipwreck, 26 survivors -UN Some 34 migrants have died in a shipwreck in the western Mediterranean, which 26 people survived, the U.N. migration agency
Tags GENERAL U.S. to keep supporting French military effort in Mali The United States will continue to support French-led military efforts in Mali against militants and there is no intention to
Tags GENERAL More than 70,000 flee ethnic violence in western Ethiopia- Government More than 70,000 people have fled ethnically-charged violence in western Ethiopia, officials there said on Tuesday – part of an
Tags GENERAL Faces of Africa – Be My Eyes, Part 2 WHO reports that an estimate of 36 million people are blind and 217 million have moderate to severe vision impairment