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May
24
2023
By PROMIT MUKHERJEE
Africa’s biggest casino operator Tsogo Sun bets on hotel chain

Africa’s biggest casino operator Tsogo Sun bets on hotel chain

NEWS
AFRICA'S biggest casino operator Tsogo Sun Gaming has become one of the top five investors in leading South African hotel chain City Lodge, with a 5% stake, share ownership data showed. The stake, acquired by HSS Investments and Entertainment Holdings, two subsidiaries of Tsogo Sun Gaming, could herald the casino operator's return to the hotel business, reversing its split into two separate entities - casinos and hotels - in 2019. According to Refinitiv and the company's shareholding data, HSS Investments and Entertainment Holdings between them owned up to 5% of City Lodge as of mid-May. The two unlisted entities are not…
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May
24
2023
By The African Mirror
Ethiopia to launch a tender for second telecoms licence in June -regulator

Ethiopia to launch a tender for second telecoms licence in June -regulator

NEWS
ETHIOPIA will launch a tender for a second international telecoms licence in June, the industry regulator said, as the Horn of Africa nation seeks to expand the sector. In November, the government said it had resumed the plan to issue a full telecoms licence for the operator, which will be the third alongside state-owned Ethio Telecom and Safaricom Ethiopia, partly owned by Kenyan operator Safaricom. "We have planned to launch the tender in June. More details will be released when we approach the launch date," Balcha Reba, director general of the Ethiopian Communication Authority, told Reuters via a text message. The telecoms…
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May
24
2023
By The African Mirror
Protesters in Ethiopia’s Tigray demand withdrawal of outside forces

Protesters in Ethiopia’s Tigray demand withdrawal of outside forces

NEWS
THOUSANDS of people demonstrated in northern Ethiopia's Tigray region to demand the return home of people displaced by a two-year war there and the withdrawal of outside forces that have remained since the conflict ended. The war between government troops and their allies from neighbouring Eritrea and the Amhara region on one side and Tigrayan forces on the other concluded with a truce last November after claiming tens of thousands of lives. Millions were forced from their homes, including hundreds of thousands from land disputed by Tigray and Amhara, whose security forces and militiamen continue to occupy the area. Eritrean troops also…
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May
24
2023
By WILL DUNHAM
South African fossils reveal ancient beast’s epic journey to oblivion

South African fossils reveal ancient beast’s epic journey to oblivion

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IT was a dire moment for life on Earth. Runaway global warming triggered by calamitous volcanism in Siberia inflicted the worst mass extinction on record - dooming perhaps 90% of species - roughly 252 million years ago at the end of the Permian Period. Unlike the asteroid 66 million years ago that ravaged the dinosaurs, this extinction event unfolded over a protracted time span, with species perishing one by one as conditions worsened. Scientists said fossils unearthed in South Africa provide a peek into this drama, telling the tale of an apex predator that over multiple generations migrated halfway around…
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May
23
2023
By KHALID ABDELAZIZ and MOHAMED NURELDIN
Week-long ceasefire starts in Sudan after day of air strikes

Week-long ceasefire starts in Sudan after day of air strikes

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A week-long ceasefire period agreed upon by Sudan's warring factions and designed to allow for the delivery of aid began hours after the army conducted heavy air strikes across the capital Khartoum against its paramilitary rivals. The ceasefire, which was agreed on Saturday after five weeks of fierce battles between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), was due to take effect at 9:45 p.m. (19:45 GMT). Though fighting has continued through previous ceasefires, this is the first to be formally agreed upon following negotiations. The ceasefire deal includes for the first time a monitoring mechanism involving the…
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May
23
2023
By The African Mirror
Nigeria’s city of Ilé-Ifẹ̀ has survived and thrived for 1,000 years: here’s how

Nigeria’s city of Ilé-Ifẹ̀ has survived and thrived for 1,000 years: here’s how

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BY the end of this century, the three most populous cities in the world are expected to be in Africa, with Lagos in Nigeria leading as home to 88.3 million people. When thinking about what city life is like now and could be like in future, it’s helpful to know something about African urban history. It’s a history that goes far back, long before the onset of European colonial rule in the late 19th century. And the Yorùbá-speaking area of West Africa was a key player in the continent’s ancient urban history. Author AKINWUMI OGUNDIRAN, Chancellor’s Professor, and Professor of…
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May
23
2023
By MACDONALD DZIRUTWE
Nigeria commissions Dangote refinery, seeks to end fuel imports

Nigeria commissions Dangote refinery, seeks to end fuel imports

NEWS
NIGERIA commissioned Dangote Refinery amid hopes of transforming the country into a net exporter of petroleum products, but analysts said securing crude supplies could affect its achieving full production this year. The government of outgoing President Muhammadu Buhari sees the refinery as the answer to Nigeria's repeated fuel shortages, the latest of which hit the country in the run-up to February's disputed presidential election. Nigeria spent $23.3 billion last year on petroleum product imports and consumes around 33 million litres of petrol a day. Dangote's 650,000 barrels per day refinery plans to produce 53 million litres a day. The plant plans to…
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May
21
2023
By DJAFFAR SABITI
DRC rape scandal: survivors speak

DRC rape scandal: survivors speak

NEWS
FOUR men with machetes were hard on their heels as a group of women raced through the dense forest surrounding east Congo's city of Goma, desperate to reach a displacement camp they had left to collect firewood. One tripped on a stone and fell. She had no time to react before one of the men caught up. "He raped me," she recalled two weeks later in Bulengo, one of several camps near Goma sheltering about 600,000 people that have fled conflict zones. "He told me that if I screamed he would kill me," she said. "I felt dirty." The 35-year-old…
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May
21
2023
By ARATHY SOMASEKHAR
Rare shipment of U.S. oil heads to SA for Glencore refinery

Rare shipment of U.S. oil heads to SA for Glencore refinery

NEWS
A shipment of U.S. oil is headed to South Africa for the first time in two years and destined for a Glencore-owned refinery in Cape Town that has restarted operations after an explosion shuttered it in 2020, according to ship tracking data and a source. U.S. oil exports this year hit a record 4.5 million barrels per day as competitive pricing for U.S. grades and China's reopening after COVID-19 have fueled global demand for oil. Tanker Sonangol Porto Amboim, carrying light sweet oil, left Corpus Christi, Texas, on May 16 for Saldanha Bay on the west coast of South Africa, according to…
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May
20
2023
By TAREK AMARA
Tunisia police to investigate two top journalists, radio station says

Tunisia police to investigate two top journalists, radio station says

NEWS
TUNISIA'S most popular independent radio station said two of its top broadcasters, critics of President Kais Saied, have been summoned by police for questioning, amid fears of an escalating government campaign against the media. Radio Mosaique said its broadcasters Haythem El Mekki and Elyess Gharbi were going to be questioned by police on Friday in an investigation linked to journalistic content. Police and Interior Ministry spokespeople were not immediately available to comment on the report. El Mekki, who presents a daily show on Radio Mosaique criticising Saied's policies, this week raised concerns about the country's methods of recruiting police after…
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