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Senegalese lawmakers reject revised budget key for new IMF deal

Senegalese lawmakers on Friday rejected for a second time a revised budget that is crucial to sealing a new programme with the International Monetary Fund, according to a…

Competing US, Russia resolutions on Western Sahara defeated in UN Security...

Russia vetoed a US-drafted resolution on Western Sahara at the Security Council on Friday, leaving the UN peacekeeping mission there without a

African lenders formally establish $5 billion energy bank

The African Export-Import Bank and the African Petroleum Producers' Organisation have formally established the Africa Energy Bank, according to a statement from Afreximbank on

Ghana says Russia to back 2 000 MW nuclear plant, deepen...

Russia has agreed to work with Ghana on developing a 2,000-megawatt nuclear power plant following talks at the Russia-Africa Summit, Ghanaian Foreign Minister Samuel Okudzeto

Samples for two suspected Ebola cases in Nigeria turn out negative

Health authorities in Nigeria investigating two suspected Ebola cases in the country's northeast region confirmed that the samples tested negative after two rounds of

UK PM Burnham says he is ‘open’ to formal apology for...

British Prime Minister Andy Burnham has said he is open to calls for a formal apology for Britain's historical role in slavery, before attending next week's Commonwealth

The Agoa trap: How Western tariffs are forcing South Africa back...

We are being set up. As Washington wraps up its annual review of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (Agoa), our economic commentators are...

WATCH | ‘We failed our people’: Mathews Phosa admits ANC ‘dropped...

In an unflinchingly candid appearance on the Frank Dialogue podcast in partnership with Sunday World, ANC veteran, and former Mpumalanga Premier Dr Mathews Phosa...

Powerball results for Friday, October 30 2026

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Waseem Carrim cleared to take CEO reins at RAF as court...

The Road Accident Fund (RAF) has emerged victorious from a dramatic High Court showdown after the Pretoria High Court dismissed an urgent legal application...