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New portal drives SDGs in Africa
SEVENTEEN United Nations entities under the Africa Collaborative Regional Platform launched an online data portal, the first of its kind on the continent, to measure and evaluate progress on the Susta...Published: 24 Sep 2021 at 09:24hrs | | by Southerners
When the undertaker wishes you long life
This time Africans have abjectly disappointed the world.For Pete's sake, why can they not simply die?At least that is what the world expected after the outbreak of the coronavirus....Published: 04 Oct 2020 at 09:57hrs | | by Bishop Lazi
African Union hypocrisy
The African Union's condemnation of the military coup in Sudan exposes the hypocrisy of the organization. The chair of the AU Commission said it was not the appropriate response to the challenges faci...Published: 15 Apr 2019 at 10:10hrs | | by ZimVigil
Mama: please give us a sign; Mat'land region is doomed with either Chamisa or Mnangagwa as president! What should we do, Mama?
Chamisa's advisers tell him to lie, shout, make a lot of noise and utter falsehood as much as he can until July the 30 the election day. Chamisa does that eloquently, does not disappoint. Malema's wor...Published: 10 Jun 2018 at 20:26hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
Current systems are corrupt, tribalistic, marginalise others
We are living in a time when we must, will and should treat our societies of the ills of a status quo political class. This class of people have intentionally put or left in place policies and systems...Published: 17 Apr 2018 at 07:20hrs | | by Nqobizitha Maplanka
Al-Qaeda praises Algeria's protesters
Protests by the unemployed in southern Algeria are raising the spectre of rising unrest in the country's sensitive oil regions, and are increasingly attracting the attention of al-Qaeda.Algeri...Published: 30 Mar 2013 at 09:35hrs | | by Mafu Sithabile
Africa: Divided, ruled, for now
Last week I gave you a perspective steeped in history. I am grateful for the polite responses I got, whether by way of counter-arguments or by way of polemical affirmations. Either way, the responses ...Published: 26 Jan 2013 at 09:30hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Tsvangirai - The master of political intrigue and political contradictions
In this instalment I posit that Mr. Tsvangriai is indeed a leader of serious political intrigue, serious political contradictions and serious short comings....Published: 22 Feb 2012 at 06:46hrs | | by Thembani Mthembo
Sudan political relations on 'shaky ground' as China feels the pinch...
A landmark development in July 2011 led to the creation of a new state in Africa as South Sudan became an independent state under a 2005 peace deal that ended decades of civil war. Sudan's war was fou...Published: 31 Jan 2012 at 08:28hrs | | by Farai Vengesai
Talking Boko Haram and More On Soul Talk
A lot has been going down in the country of my birth, multiple deaths, the fuel subsidy , unrest and so ...Published: 09 Jan 2012 at 05:30hrs | | by Pamelas World
After independence, what next for South Sudan?
Juba - With a roaring cheer the people of South Sudan welcomed the newest nation in the world on July 9. Couples embraced and men cried as the new national anthem was sung for the first time and the s...Published: 11 Aug 2011 at 22:17hrs | | by Peter Martell
South Sudan: Free at last
Before an overflowing crowd of tens of thousands of his ecstatic countrymen, President Salva Kiir Mayardit used the historic occasion of the entry of South Sudan into the world's community of states ...Published: 10 Jul 2011 at 18:21hrs | | by Muriti Mutiga
South Sudan formally marked its independence
Juba - Tens of thousands of South Sudanese danced and cheered as their new nation declared independence on Saturday, a hard-won separation from the north that still leaves simmering issues of disput...Published: 09 Jul 2011 at 17:10hrs | | by Matthews Estell
More 65 killed in Southern Sudan
More than 65 people have been killed in two days of clashes between rebel groups and soldiers in Southern Sudan's Upper Nile state, an army spokesman said.Philip Aguer, spokesman for the Sud...Published: 08 Mar 2011 at 20:54hrs | | by Matthews Estell
99 percent of Southerners voted for secession, Sudan
Close to 99 percent of south Sudanese chose to secede from the north in a January 9-15 referendum, according to the first complete preliminary results published Sunday.Updated figures publish...Published: 30 Jan 2011 at 11:45hrs | | by Byo24NEWS
Polls open for Southern Sudan independence referendum vote
Sudan - Women broke out in song and men wrapped themselves in flags as voters in Southern Sudan began casting ballots Sunday in a week-long independence referendum likely to create the world's newest ...Published: 09 Jan 2011 at 16:00hrs | | by Byo24NEWS
African leaders confront Gbagbo
The government of Cote d'Ivoire's incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo has rebuffed a call for him to step down or face removal by force, before several West African presidents deliver a final ultimatum....Published: 28 Dec 2010 at 23:14hrs | | by Byo24 Africa Correspondent
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