PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government, has begun registering former commercial white farmers who lost their land under the chaotic land redistribution exercise. In a statement Sunday, the Ministry of Lands said it was identifying and registering former white farm owners who want to participate in the interim advance payments scheme. The scheme according to the statement is targeting those “in distress.”… Read more »
The World Bank on Monday cut its growth forecast for Sub-Saharan Africathis year to 2.8 per cent from an initial 3.3 per cent. The global bank said commodity price slump of 2015 cut short a decade of rapid growth for the region, noting that growth would take longer to recover as a decline in industrial production and a trade dispute between… Read more »
The preferential trade agreement between the Southern African Customs Unions (SACU) and the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) trade blocs has led to a steady increase of South African exports into Brazil. This is according to the South African Foreign Economic Representative in Brazil, Shanaaz Ebrahim. Speaking at the 12th Latin American Defence and Security Exhibition (LAAD) currently underway in Brazil,… Read more »
LONDON (Reuters) – The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday said it had reconvened an expert panel to consider whether an outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo constitutes a public health emergency of international concern. The panel, which first met on this issue in October 2018, will also give updated recommendations on how global health officials should… Read more »
TRIPOLI/GENEVA (Reuters) – Casualties from the battle for Libya’s capital mounted on Tuesday and the United Nations moved dozens of migrants to safety from a detention center in the south of the city where fighting had raged nearby. Medical facilities reported 47 people killed and 181 wounded in recent days as eastern Libyan National Army (LNA) forces seek to take… Read more »
NAIROBI (Reuters) – The World Bank has cut its growth forecast for Sub-Saharan Africa this year to 2.8 percent from an initial 3.3 percent, it said on Monday. The commodity price slump of 2015 cut short a decade of rapid growth for the region, and the bank said growth would take longer to recover as a decline in industrial production… Read more »
Prophet T.B. Joshua the head of the Synagogue Church of nations (SCOAN) did not make any prophecy of the May 21 2019 Malawi watershed elections, his Scoan Emmanuel TV Partners in Malawi has clarified. In a published statement seen by Nyasa Times, Emmanuel TV Partner in Malawi said the some media reports circulating that the Nigerian preacher prophesied the winner… Read more »
DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Tanzania’s main city Dar es Salaam did not have traffic signs, speed bumps or footpaths outside many schools, although children walking to class were being hit by cars on a regular basis. So SARSAI, a small non-profit program in Africa, got the government’s permission to install these features itself, reducing child injuries by 26 percent… Read more »
Zambia’s ties with China are among the longest of all African countries. DW’s Abu-Bakarr Jalloh and Fang Wan have been investigating how Zambians feel today, more than half a century after the relationship began. Yan Aimi sobs deeply as she walks down an aisle of her small convenience store. Memories of a recent burglary still haunt the Chinese businesswomen, who… Read more »
Maputo — The Mozambican Ministry of Land, Environment and Rural Development is looking for 50 million US dollars for reforestation and forest management projects, intended to mitigate the effects of climate change. Speaking on Tuesday at an international conference on deforestation and forest management in Maputo, the deputy national director for forests in the Ministry, Imede Falume, said the Ministry… Read more »