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  • Speaker of the KwaZulu-Natal Legislature, Honourable Nontembeko Boyce

    Deep reflections on the mandate of KwaZulu-Natal legislature

    Despite the challenges this pandemic has left in its wake, the KwaZulu-Natal legislature remains resolute in serving its people, writes Nontembeko Boyce.

    404 days ago
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    African Union seeks restoration of civilian rule in Chad

    The AU's 15-member security body, the Peace and Security Council, voiced "grave concern" over the establishment of a military council headed by 37-year-old Mahamat Idriss Deby.

    437 days ago
  • FILE: A map showing Cabo Delgado, province of Mozambique. Picture: 123rf.com

    AU calls for urgent action after Mozambique jihadist attack

    The jihadists captured Palma on 24 March, ransacking buildings and beheading residents and forcing thousands to seek safety in surrounding forest.

    460 days ago
  • FILE: The AU CDC said Africa needed vaccines and they needed it now. Picture: 123rf.com

    AU plans to vaccinate 60% of its citizens by the end of the year

    The latest data on the AU CDC portal shows almost 95,000 people have passed away in Africa after contracting the coronavirus.

    467 days ago
  • Health Minister Zweli Mkhize, Deputy President David Mabuza, President Cyril Ramaphosa and Deputy High Commissioner of India Abhijit Chakraborty celebrate the arrival of the first million doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine at OR Tambo International Airport on 1 February 2021. Picture: GCIS.

    Mkhize mum on which countries bought SA’s AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines

    The department on Sunday said government had concluded the sale of the jabs it acquired but did not use to other African Union member states.

    470 days ago
  • Mkhize: AstraZeneca vaccines have been offered to the AU

    Health Minister Zweli Mkhize gave an update on vaccines at Parliament on 16 February 2021. He said the AstraZeneca vaccines that SA bought would be distributed to the countries that had already indicated interest.

    504 days ago
  • President Cyril Ramaphosa addressed the nation on 1 February 2021 on government's latest efforts to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. Picture: GCIS.

    Ramaphosa: Access to loans on favourable terms crucial for Africa amid pandemic

    Ramaphosa gave his final address as the chairperson of the African Union (AU) on Saturday during the organisation’s virtual 34th Ordinary Session of the Assembly and Heads of States.

    514 days ago
  • FILE: South African President Cyril Ramaphosa will deliver a pandemic response update during the closed portion of the summit Saturday, according to a draft programme. Picture: @PresidencyZA/Twitter.

    African leaders to tackle COVID, conflict at virtual summit

    The African Union summit comes almost exactly one year after Egypt recorded the first case of COVID-19 in Africa, prompting widespread fears that member states' weak health systems would quickly be overwhelmed.

    514 days ago
  • South Africa's Naledi Pandor, chairperson of the Executive Council of the AU, shares opening remarks at the 34th AU Summit on 3 February 2021. Picture: AU.

    COVID-19 and conflicts compete for attention at African Union summit

    The two-day African Union summit comes almost exactly one year after Egypt recorded the first case of COVID-19 in Africa, prompting widespread fears that member states' weak health systems would quickly be overwhelmed.

    516 days ago
  • President Cyril Ramaphosa addressing the African Union (AU) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on 9 February 2020 during his acceptance statement on assuming the chair of the AU for 2020. Picture: @PresidencyZA/Twitter

    CYRIL RAMAPHOSA: What we got right as AU chair despite our baptism of fire

    Our most pressing task was to steer the focus of the African Union to addressing the worst global emergency in over a century, writes Cyril Ramaphosa.

    519 days ago
  • FILE: President Cyril Ramaphosa on 3 June 2020. Picture: @PresidencyZA/Twitter.

    Ramaphosa: Africans struggling to access vaccines that were tested on them

    Earlier this week, President Cyril Ramaphosa warned against ‘vaccine nationalism’, saying it risked endangering the recovery of not only countries like South Africa, but all nations.

    524 days ago
  • FILE SA President and AU chair Cyril Ramaphosa. Picture: GCIS.

    WATCH LIVE: AU Chair Ramaphosa on Africa COVID-19 vaccine strategy

    Cyril Ramaphosa is hosting a webinar on the Africa COVID-19 vaccine financing and deployment strategy.

    524 days ago
  • Musician-turned-politician Robert Kyagulanyi, also known as Bobi Wine, speaks during a press conference at his home in Magere, Uganda, on 15 January 2021. Picture: Sumy Sadruni/AFP.

    EXCLUSIVE: Bobi Wine: AU's Ramaphosa shouldn't be silent in face of injustice

    In an exclusive interview with Eyewitness News, Wine said only the EU, the US and human rights bodies have condemned the human rights violations in his country.

    526 days ago
  • Professional healthcare workers wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) attend to a patient inside the temporary ward dedicated to the treatment of possible COVID-19 coronavirus patients at Steve Biko Academic Hospital in Pretoria on 11 January 2021. Picture: Phill Magakoe/AFP

    Africa took the right COVID-19 measures at the right time - WHO

    While they were the right choices, it has left African countries with troublesome economic results.

    536 days ago
  • Picture: 123rf.com

    African Union secures provisional 270 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine

    According to the BBC, AU head and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has promised all of the doses will be used this year.

    537 days ago
  • FILE: A displaced Sudanese woman walks past an UN-African Union mission to Darfur (UNAMID) vehicle at the Kalma camp for internally displaced people in Darfur's state capital Niyala on 9 October 2019. Picture: AFP

    Sudan to deploy troops in Darfur after tribal clashes

    It comes less than a week after the United Nations Security Council agreed to end the UN and African Union's long-running peacekeeping mission in Darfur, UNAMID, when its mandate expires on 31 December.

    554 days ago
  • Naledi Pandor: The AU has a vaccine strategy for the continent

    Speaking on 14 December 2020, International Relations and Cooperation Minister Naledi Pandor said that the African Union has established a task team for Africa to ensure there are vaccines available for the continent. Pandor said “vaccine nationalism” was a problem, and that richer countries might try to hoard the medication.

    568 days ago
  • Protesters march at Alausa, the Lagos State Secretariat, in Lagos on 20 October 2020, after the Governor of Lagos State, Sanwo Olu, declared a 24 hour curfew in Nigeria's economic hub Lagos as violence flared in widespread protests that have rocked cities across the country. Picture: AFP

    African Union condemns violence in Nigeria

    AU chair Moussa Faki Mahamat's statement welcomed Nigeria's decision to disband the police's loathed Special Anti-Robbery Squad, but doesn't condemn its actions.

    621 days ago
  • Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. Picture: Twitter/@NOIweala

    Ramaphosa: Africans must rally behind Nigerian candidate for WTO top spot

    Nigeria’s Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is one of the two remaining candidates for the position of World Trade Organization director general.

    634 days ago
  • FILE: President Cyril Ramaphosa address the United Nations on 21 September 2020. Picture: @PresidencyZA/Twitter

    Ramaphosa appeals for global solidarity in fighting against COVID-19

    The president was speaking in his capacity as the AU chairperson at the first day of the General Debate of the 75th Session of the United Nations General Assembly.

    651 days ago
  • FILE: Health Minister Zweli Mkhize addresses a media briefing on 13 July 2020. Picture: @DrZweliMkhize/Twitter.

    Mkhize: SA looking forward to COVID-19 debt relief for AU member states

    Health Minister Zweli Mkhize delivered the keynote address at the centre’s conference on mitigating the economic and health impact of COVID-19.

    652 days ago
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