The post-election protests in Mozambique led to a reduction in production at South African factories, causing a three-month consecutive drop in January. The losses are expected to be felt by the end of the year. The Absa Group Ltd. purchasing managers' index, compiled by the Bureau for Economic Research, fell to 45.3 from...
All employees of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) will be placed on administrative leave as of Friday, including abroad, according to a document posted on the organization's website. "As of Friday, all USAID direct-hire staff will be placed on administrative leave throughout the...
A few days ago, US President Donald Trump threatened to cut off future funding to South Africa based on allegations of embezzlement and confiscation of land belonging to white people. However, in response to this accusation, Cyril Ramaphosa, President of South Africa, denied Trump's accusations on Monday, and...
On Tuesday, the armed group M23 announced an immediate ceasefire to alleviate the humanitarian crisis that is reaching alarming levels in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). In a statement, the political-military coalition Alliance Fleuve Congo, of which M23 is a member, said the ceasefire was for "humanitarian reasons" and denied any intention to occupy...
The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, yesterday regretted the withdrawal of the United States of America from the organization. "We regret this decision and hope that the United States will reconsider it," he said at the opening of a meeting of the WHO Executive Board in Geneva, Switzerland. Meanwhile, in a document released on Monday, the WHO...
The presidents of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Félix Tshisekedi, have confirmed their participation on Saturday (08) in an extraordinary joint summit of the East African Community (EAC) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) on the conflict in the DRC, in Dar es Salaam. The announcement was made on Monday,...
Elon Musk has said that President Donald Trump has agreed that the United States Agency for International Development needs to be "shut down", after days of speculation about the agency's future after its funding was frozen and dozens of its employees were put on leave. "As far as...
The Secretary-General of the United Nations congratulated Mozambique on its performance in the United Nations Security Council, pointing out that under the leadership of Pedro Commissioner, Mozambique's performance had been "magnificent". He said, quoted in a publication in "O País", that the country had defended positions not only of interest to Mozambique, but also to the United Nations,...
The Southern African Development Community and the East African Community (SADC) have proposed a joint summit to resolve the conflict between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, a proposal that Kigali says it accepts, but no date has been set for this meeting. For these negotiations to succeed, Paul Kagame,...
Fighting between Rwandan-backed rebels and the Congolese army has put millions of people at high risk of death from the spread of disease, Africa's main health advisory body has said. The war - concentrated in the eastern Congolese city of Goma, where 3 million people live - exponentially increases the...