# Cameroon’s Tourism minister Bello Maigari has accepted his party’s nomination to run for president in the expected October election. This comes as president Paul Biya remains silent on his re-election plans. The 78-year-old longtime ally to Biya, is the second minister from northern Cameroon to declare candidacy, hinting at cracks in Biya’s coalition. Provisional […]
# Sowat 90-persent van die verpakte voedsel en drank wat in Kenia verkoop word, mag gesondheids-waarskuwingsetikette vereis onder nuwe regeringsregulasies. ‘n Verslag deur die Access to Nutrition Initiative, dui aan die konsepregulasies teiken produkte met ‘n hoë soutinhoud, suiker of versadigde vette. Die verslag waarsku Kenia is op ‘n gesondheidsmespunt met vetsug wat styg en […]
# Approximately 90-percent of packaged food and drink sold in Kenya may require health warning labels under new government rules. According to a report by the Access to Nutrition Initiative, the draft regulations target products high in salt, sugar, or saturated fat. The initiative warns that Kenya is at a health tipping point, with obesity […]
# Suid-Afrika het meer tyd gevra om ‘n handelsooreenkoms met Amerika te onderhandel voor tariefverhogings van 31-persent volgende Woensdag van krag word. President Donald Trump se administrasie het die verhoging vir 90-dae uitgestel. Dit bedreig sleutel-uitvoere soos voertuie, staal en sitrus. Die minister van Handel en Nywerheid, Parks Tau, sê in ‘n verklaring Suid-Afrika probeer […]
# Meer as 130 liefdadigheidsorganisasies en nie-regeringsorganisasies vra dat die Israels-Amerikaans-ondersteunde Humanitêre Stigting in Gaza gesluit moet word. Oxfam, Save the Children, Amnestie Internasionaal en ander sê meer as 500 Palestyne wat hulp probeer ontvang het is dood sedert die stigting einde Mei met sy werksaamhede begin het, met amper vier-duisend wat beseer is. Die […]
# South Africa has requested more time to negotiate a trade deal with the US before a 31-percent tariff hike takes effect on Wednesday next week. The tariff, paused for 90-days by president Donald Trump’s administration, threatens key exports like autos, steel, and citrus. In a statement, Trade minister Parks Tau says South Africa aims […]
# More than 130 charities and other non-governmental organisations are calling for the controversial Israeli and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation to be shut down. The organisations, including Oxfam, Save the Children and Amnesty International, say more than 500 Palestinians have been killed while seeking aid since the foundation started operating in late May. Almost four-thousand […]
# Vier werknemers van ‘n satiriese tydskrif in Turkye is in hegtenis geneem vir die publikasie van ‘n spotprent wat moontlik die profeet Mohammed uitbeeld. Die uitbeelding van die heilige godsdiensfiguur is verbode in Islam. Die minister van Binnelandse Sake, Ali Yerlikaya, veroordeel LeMan se spotprent as skaamteloos, en het aangekondig dat die hoofredakteur, grafiese […]
# Suid-Afrika ondervind ‘n toename in voertuie wat afgeskryf word vir onbenullige skade weens hoë herstelkoste wat te wyte is aan ‘n tekort aan onderdele. Thabo Twalo van Santam het aan Daily Investor gesê die neiging word aangevuur deur internasionale spanning, insluitend die Amerikaanse president, Donald Trump, se tariewe. ‘n Vertraging met die lewering van […]
