🇿🇦 South Africa gunmen stop sermon and rob churchgoers

Armed robbers invaded a Johannesburg church in South Africa and stole from the congregants at gunpoint over the weekend.

The gunmen stopped the sermon before proceeding to collect cash and valuables from the people inside the Johannesburg Central SDA church, according to reports.

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🇺🇳🇸🇸 UN experts call on South Sudan to investigate government officials for their role in sexual violence and beheadings

South Sudan should investigate officials accused of overseeing systematic gang rapes, some of whose victims were girls as young as nine, UN rights experts said on Monday in a statement the government dismissed as a fabrication.

Investigators say sexual abuse has been used as a weapon by all sides in South Sudan's civil conflict, which erupted in 2013 and triggered Africa's biggest refugee crisis since the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

#UN #SouthSudan

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🇧🇫 Burkina Faso's vanishing gold boom puts livelihoods at risk

Burkina Faso is set to produce 13% less gold this year than in 2021, in part because of mine closures, government statistics show.

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🇿🇦 More than 20 drown amid South Africa rains

More than 20 people have drowned in rivers and dams across South Africa’s northern Limpopo province in less than two months amid persistent rains, the police have said.

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🇬🇭 Inflation, debt pile pressure on Ghana's economy

Ghana is experiencing a deep economic crisis, with a rampant inflation that has reached almost 40% and its currency that has fallen by almost half compared to the US dollar.

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🇿🇦🇻🇪 South Africa President to host Venezuela’s Maduro on state visit

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa will host Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on a state visit on Dec. 6.

“The visit will highlight the existing cooperation between the two countries and consolidate concrete actions for mutual benefit of the South African and Venezuelan people,” the South African presidency said in a statement on Monday.

#SouthAfrica #Venezuela

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🇪🇸🇳🇬 Spanish coastguard rescues three African migrants stowed away on ship's rudder

The Spanish coastguard said it rescued three migrants stowed away on the rudder of a ship that arrived in the Canary Islands from Nigeria.

The chemical tanker Althini II arrived in Las Palmas in Gran Canaria on Monday after an 11-day voyage from Lagos in Nigeria, according to Marine Traffic, a ship-tracking website.

#Spain #Nigeria

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🇨🇫 In Central Africa, a foreign aircraft targets troops and Russian allies

The government of the Central African Republic (CAR) announced, on Monday, that a plane coming from a neighboring country bombed in the middle of the night and bombed CAR troops and their Russian allies.

The plane targeted a military base and "dropped explosives on the town" of Bossangoa, in the north, but caused only material damage.

Chad lies north of Bossangoa, a town which was in rebel hands until recently, and relations with the CAR have been tense recently.

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🇦🇴 Angola confirms arrest warrant for Isabel dos Santos

Angola's Attorney-General Helder Pitta Groz has confirmed that his country has issued an arrest warrant for former President Jose Eduardo dos Santos' daughter, Isabel dos Santos.

The government has filed several civil and criminal lawsuits demanding more than $5bn (£4.1bn) from her. Ms Dos Santos has denied the charges.

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🇷🇺🇿🇲 Russia's Prigozhin says Zambian student who died in Ukraine was fighting for Wagner

Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin said on Tuesday that a Zambian student who died in Ukraine had been fighting for his Wagner Private Military Group.

In a statement, the businessman claimed that Nathan Lemekhandi Nyirenda, who was serving a 9,5 year prison sentence, agreed to be recruited as an act of gratitude for “Russia helping Africans to gain independence.”

Prigozhin added that Nyirenda had "died a hero".

#Russia #Zambia

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