Southern Africa

Two Mozambicans have been sentenced to 30 years in prison for illegal hunting and possession of a firearm. They were arrested in September last year with a firearm and ammunition at a game farm with the aim of slaughtering rhinos to extract their horns for commercial purposes. The game farm …

A group of South Africans have started a petition against plans by the department of basic education to introduce unisex or gender-neutral toilets in schools, local media reported The petition has been signed by over 60,000 people so far. “Toilets are private and suggesting that girls and boys share toilets …

Voices are being raised in South Africa for pit bull dogs to be banned as pets, after an eight-year-old child was allegedly mauled to death last Saturday by a pit bull. According to reports, South Africa has one of the highest numbers of deaths related to dog attacks in the …

A 43-year-old Zimbabwean church treasurer has been sentenced to three years in prison on 128 counts of theft by the Pretoria Specialist Commercial Crimes Court in South Africa. As a treasurer, her responsibilities was to transfer tithe and offering money deposited to the church account, to the Northern Conference of …

Lions thought to have escaped from a farm in Mozambique, are causing panic in the villages of Moamba in Maputo province, local media reported. The lions have killed the livestock of villagers – something that hyenas have also been doing since the beginning of the year by killing goats and …

Hundreds of thousands of civil servants in South Africa have started a nationwide strike over wages and working conditions. Local media have described it as the first major strike by public servants in the decade. Members of the Public Servants’ Association (PSA) had for weeks staged lunchtime pickets, but have …

After a small delay caused by a fire alarm at Nasa’s control centre in the US, two satellites built by Zimbabwean and Ugandan engineers respectively, have been launched into space. LIVE: #AskNASA experts your questions about @NorthropGrumman’s CRS-18 resupply mission to the @Space_Station set to launch Sunday.It will carry experiments …

The number of deaths from cholera in Malawi rose to 183 at the end of October from 110 at the beginning of the month, the health ministry announced on Monday. “The rate of infections has been rising, with the cumulative number of cases since the outbreak began in March now …

Malawi’s President Lazarus Chakwera has sacked Agriculture Minister, Lobin Lowe and his deputy Madalitso Kambauwa Wirima over what he termed “incompetence and gross negligence”. President Chakwera made the announcement in a televised address on Tuesday evening. The agriculture ministry is accused of botching the implementation of a programme in which …

Zambian police arrested a 19-year-old woman accused of faking her own kidnapping as she told her uncle she was abducted by unidentified men on her way to church, local media reported. Zambia police spokesperson Rae Hamoonga says the woman left home under the pretext that she was going to church, …