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3 months ago | March 8, 2020
Malawi legalises cannabis for medical use
ON February 27, 2020, the Malawian parliament passed a Bill into law that legalised the cultivation of cannabis in the ...
Oil prices nosedive over coronavirus concerns
OIL prices plummeted on Friday after major producers failed to reach an agreement to reduce production, as concerns ...
Afghanistan bloodshed continues despite truce
Two gunmen opened fire on a crowded event in Kabul attended by the opposition leader Abdullah Abdullah on Friday, and ...
3 months ago | March 1, 2020
Nigeria confirms first coronavirus case
Nigeria has reported the first confirmed case of coronavirus in sub-Saharan Africa, as investor alarm over a potential ...
3 months ago | February 23, 2020
Locusts threaten 25m people in East Africa
Swarms of desert locusts, which have been ravaging crops and grazing land across east Africa, have now crossed the ...
Malawi MPs lose bid to overturn election results
The High Court Lilongwe Registry has dismissed with costs an application by former legislators, who lost that country’s ...
EU summit collapses as leaders haggle over budget
A SUMMIT of EU leaders seeking to fill a €75 billion hole in the bloc’s budget left by Brexit dramatically collapsed ...
3 months ago | February 16, 2020
US strikes deal with the Taliban
American officials said on Friday they had agreed with the Taliban on a seven-day reduction in violence in Afghanistan ...
No quick fix for SA power woes
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s plans to overhaul the energy industry have some way to go before they provide ...
Cyclic weather patterns haunt Southern Africa
The Southern African region is facing a recurrent drought and flood challenge due to cyclic weather patterns, made worse ...
4 months ago | February 9, 2020
Mutharika appeals against court ruling
Malawi’s President Peter Mutharika and the country’s electoral commission have formally filed an appeal against a court ...
Africa’s capacity to tackle coronavirus improving fast
Africa’s capacity for tackling the coronavirus that emerged in China in January was improving rapidly, the US Centres ...
4 months ago | January 26, 2020
Africa battles to fight off locust invasion
Locusts by the millions are nibbling their way across a large part of Africa in the worst outbreak some places have seen ...
Coronavirus spreads to Europe
China has expanded an unprecedented lockdown during the country’s most important holiday to 13 cities and at least 36 ...
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