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[Scrolla] Kagiso Lerutla was arrested at OR Tambo International Airport. He faces fraud, corruption and defeating the ends of justice charges. Tsholofelo Koopedi will act as the city manager today as Lerutla appears in the Boksburg Magistrate's Court alongside Julius Mkhwanazi.

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[Global Witness] With COP30 delivering mixed results on a fossil fuel phaseout, attention is turning to new spaces for building climate action. The Santa Marta conference, hosted by Colombia and the Netherlands, could push governments to deliver concrete plans through a just transition and tax reform

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[Scrolla] Cynthia Shange died in a hospital in the KwaZulu-Natal province after the famous television actress was sick for some time. Cynthia Shange was famous for acting in shows like Muvhango and representing South Africa at the Miss World beauty pageant.

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Prominent Pan-African and pro-Russian activist Kemi Seba has applied for political asylum in South Africa, where he is being detained for breaching immigration laws, his lawyer told AFP Monday.

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Over the past decade, Africa’s security landscape has come under growing strain. Political violence has nearly doubled, driven by civil wars, jihadist attacks, local conflicts, and government crackdowns that have made life more dangerous for millions.

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Many Nigerians associate bats with witchcraft but that did not deter ecologist Iroro Tanshi.

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Nigeria and Turkey have struck a defence agreement to help Africa's most populous nation fight its 17-year-long jihadist insurgency, the Nigerian defence minister said on Saturday.

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[263Chat] By Tinomudaishe Muzanenhamo

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[263Chat] Human rights violations rose sharply in March, driven largely by political tensions surrounding public hearings on the proposed Constitution Amendment Bill No. 3 according to a new report by the Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP).

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[Namibian] THE governments of Namibia and Angola have finalised a N$4-billion agreement to build the Angola-Namibia Interconnector.

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[SADC] 20 April 2026, Gaborone, Botswana: The Southern African Development Community (SADC) Secretariat, in collaboration with the German Government through the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit - Cooperation for the Enhancement of the SADC Regional Economic integration (GIZ-CESARE) Programme, will convene a High-Level Engagement Meetings in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) from 27 April to 01 May 2026.

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[Health-e] South Africans are being told that providing a new HIV prevention tool (lenacapavir) to just about 456,000 people is a victory. It is not. In a country that still records hundreds of new infections every day, partial coverage is unlikely to slow the epidemic in any meaningful way. Worse still, all of the supplies have not yet reached our shores.

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[ISS] Reactive counter-terrorism posture risks entrenching armed groups in a new corridor linking northwest to southwest Nigeria.

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[RFI] MONUSCO, the UN's peacekeeping mission in DR Congo, has hailed progress after Kinshasa and rival M23 rebels agreed to ease humanitarian aid deliveries and release prisoners within 10 days, following talks last week in Switzerland.

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[Premium Times] The party also banned its officials from wearing campaign materials or accepting gifts from aspirants.

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[GroundUp] But protesters say they are being billed for services they do not receive

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[GroundUp] "This march is a declaration that no one is illegal and that our future is bound together as one human race"

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[Shabelle] Ankara -- Turkey has for the first time formally announced that it will directly support efforts to combat armed groups operating in Somalia, particularly Al-Shabaab and ISIS, according to officials.

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[Shabelle] Mogadishu -- Somalia's police counter-terrorism command said it carried out a planned operation targeting militant extortion activities in the Lower Shabelle region, killing a local leader and dismantling an illegal checkpoint, officials said.

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[Botswana Daily News] Gaborone -- The Botswana National Front (BNF) marked its 60th anniversary in style on Saturday night, with President Advocate Duma Boko using the gala dinner to deliver a candid and forward-looking address centred on unity, economic reform and faith in the country's future.

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[Nyasa Times] A damning new United Nations assessment has laid bare a system gripped by corruption, procurement scandals and political interference, warning that Malawi's governance is steadily weakening under the weight of entrenched malpractice and selective accountability.