Southern Africa

Foreign religious workers will no longer be eligible for work permits or permanent residency in South Africa, news site EWN reports quoting the country Home Affairs minister. Minister Aaron Motsoaledi was appearing in front of a parliamentary committee investigating how controversial Malawian televangelist Shepherd Bushiri and his wife, Mary, fled …

The United Nations’ World Food Program (WFP) is planning a food aid program targeting 700,000 people in Zimbabwe from October, Reuters reported, citing an official. The announcement comes as the effects of a poor harvest and war in Ukraine continue to show. “The Zimbabwean government is working with agencies to …

At least three people lost their lives and nearly forty others were injured after the collapse of a mining dam in South Africa. The accident, which occurred on Sunday in the town of Jagersfontein, located about 100 km southwest of Bloemfontein, caused flooding and swept away several homes as well …

Zimbabwe’s opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party said on Sunday that its leader Nelson Chamisa escaped an assassination attempt. It comes after his convoy came under a bomb attack in the town of Chinhoyi, about 115km west of the capital, Harare, the BBC reported. In a statement posted on …

South African utility Eskom will escalate rotating power cuts from Friday afternoon until Monday morning, it said on Friday, citing a loss of generation capacity. “The Stage 3 power cuts, which will require up to 3,000 megawatts (MW) be shed from the grid, will last from 1400 local time on …

Angola’s main opposition party, UNITA, calls on its activists for a big protest after the Constitutional Court on Thursday issued a final decision rejecting a complaint the party had filed seeking to overturn the results that gave victory to the MPLA in power. After the country’s most closely fought election, …

European Union said on Thursday it would provide additional support to an African military mission in Mozambique, as Islamist attacks threaten gas projects meant to reduce the bloc’s reliance on Russian energy, Reuters reported. The EU is hunting alternative sources of energy since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine and Mozambique has …

Angolan Constitutional Court has rejected a petition by the main opposition party, National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (Unita), to annul the results of last month’s general election. The court ruled that Unita’s complaint did not meet the requirements to allow the nullification of the results. Unita filed …

Five youths posing as jihadists set fire to 13 houses in a village in the jihadist-hit northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado, the BBC reported. The young men pretended to be jihadists so as to steal from locals, the authorities said. “One of the men was identified and seized by …

Angolan biggest opposition party, Unita, says it has filed a legal challenge against the results of last week’s election that declared the ruling party, winner. The MPLA, the party in power since 1975, won the general elections with 51.17% of the vote, while UNITA obtained 43.95%. A senior Unita official, …