South Africa’s hourly national minimum wage (NMW) will rise by nearly 4.4 percent from rand (R) 27.58 to R 28.79 (~$1.49 to $1.55) with effect from March 1 this year. …
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Red Cross workers in Goma continued mass burials on Tuesday, a week after Rwanda-backed M23 rebels seized control of the city. The Congolese interior minister, Jacquemin Shabani, stated that 2,000 …
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President Donald Trump has taken aim at a new South African law meant to address the nation’s apartheid legacy of racially unequal land distribution, threatening to withdraw funding, including to …
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Uganda began a vaccine trial Monday against the Sudan strain of Ebola that has killed one person in the outbreak declared last week. World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus …
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The Rwanda-backed rebels who seized eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s key city of Goma announced a unilateral ceasefire in the region Monday for humanitarian reasons, following calls for a safe …
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In Burkina Faso, Captain Ibrahim Traoré made history as the first person to receive the newly introduced AES passport, just days after Burkina Faso, Niger, and Mali celebrated their official …
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Ugandan officials are preparing to deploy a trial vaccine as part of efforts to stem an outbreak of Ebola in the capital, Kampala, a top health official said Sunday. A …
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Tucked away in a lush, forested area of central Kenya’s Kikuyu town, the National Seed Bank stands as a crucial safeguard for the future of the country’s agriculture. Inside two …
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Severe shortages of food and water are threatening the lives of thousands of people fleeing Eastern Congo amid escalating violence, according to World Food Program. The U.N. Humanitarian Coordinator in …
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Some residents in the Congolese capital, Kinshasa, on Thursday welcomed an address by President Félix Tshisekedi, saying they wanted action to end war in eastern Congo. The president of the …