US President Donald Trump threatened to place "secondary tariffs" on oil from Russia during an interview with NBC yesterday. Trump said he was "very angry" and "irritated" with Russian President Vladimir Putin after the latter criticized the leadership of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, calling into question his credibility. Trump...
Tomorrow sees the start of the quarter-finals of the African Football Champions League, involving eight teams. Defending champions Al Ahly of Egypt will take on Al Hilal of Sudan, while Mamelodi Sundowns of South Africa will face Esperance of Tunis. The other South African representative, Orlando Pirates, will...
The President of the Republic of Portugal (PR), Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, says that the country is in a position to meet all the demands of Portuguese teachers abroad. The President warned, however, that the fulfillment of the demands is dependent on the goodwill of the current government, which, even though it is a caretaker government, is in a position to do so....
At least two Mozambican workers died this Saturday after a wall collapsed on a building in Phoenix, northeast of the South African city of Durban. According to a Radio Mozambique report quoting sources close to the scene, the incident occurred when the two Mozambicans, aged 27 and 29, were excavating in a...
Mozambique and Botswana are analyzing the possibility of implementing a single tourism package so that visitors from different countries around the world have the opportunity to combine beach tourism in Mozambique with inland tourism in Botswana. The intention was shared after a bilateral meeting between the governments of the two countries,...
In Malawi, development partners and civil society organizations fear that this year's general elections will be the most violent in the country, measured by the current scenario of political intolerance among supporters of various political parties. In a context of violence that characterized the post-election period in 2019, in contestation of the election results,...
Renewable energy around the world hit a record growth of 15.1% last year, reaching an output of 4,448 gigawatts (GW), according to a new statistical report from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). According to the report quoted by the newspaper Negócios, the data shows that most of the increase was due to...
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) and East African Community (EAC) political blocs have appointed five former heads of state, including Nigeria's Olusegun Obasanjo, South Africa's Kgalema Motlanthe and Ethiopia's Sahle-Work Zewde, to "facilitate" the peace process in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo), they said in a statement yesterday....
The US government, led by Donald Trump, today asked the Supreme Court to suspend the decision ordering the reinstatement of thousands of federal employees laid off in mass layoffs aimed at drastically reducing spending. According to the international press, the emergency appeal argues that the judge cannot force...
More than 300 people have been arrested in seven African countries and almost 2,000 electronic devices seized as part of a vast international operation to fight cybercrime. The information was released yesterday by the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol), according to "Noticias ao Minuto." Carried out between November and February under the name...