APA

South Africa has raised its repurchase rate (repo rate) by 75 basis points to 6.25% per year starting from Friday, the country’s Reserve Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has announced in Pretoria.

Four suspected cases of Ebola are on the run after running away from health workers in Madudu sub-county in Mubende, APA learnt on Friday.

An aide to Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples’ Democratic Party has died in Dubai, according to a statement by the party’s media chief.

In an accelerated effort to scale up response to the Ebola disease outbreak in Uganda, World Health Organization (WHO) is delivering medical supplies, providing logistics and deploying staff to support the national authorities in halting the spread of the virus.

The regionally isolated juntas in Mali and Guinea seem to find common ground amid threats of sanctions against the latter by the West African regional bloc Ecowas.

On 5 September 2022, Bolloré Energy signed an exclusive 7-year contract with the transport company LK Kunegel. Every year, Bolloré Energy will provide it with 4,000 m3 of HVO100 IZIPURE1 biofuel. LK Kunegel has therefore declared that it wishes to stop being supplied with fossil diesel in favour of IZIPURE, marketed by Bolloré Energy. The biofuel will be transported from the Bolloré Energy depot in Mulhouse, which has already allocated part of its storage capacity to low carbon liquid fuels. The product will be delivered directly to LK Kunegel’s site in Colmar using lorries which themselves run on IZIPURE.

South Africa’s beleaguered state-owned power utility Eskom has announced that it has recovered US$2 million unlawfully paid to its former chief executive Brian Molefe as his pension benefits, APA learnt on Thursday.

South Africa’s Police Minister Police Minister Bheki Cele will stay put despite opposition calls for his removal over a R2 billion (about US$113 million) expenditure on VIP protection, President Cyril Ramaphosa has said.

The 10th Conference of African Communication Regulation Authorities opened in Rabat on Wednesday with many English, Portuguese, French and Arabic-speaking African countries attending this multilateral event.

The price of OPEC basket of 13 crudes stood at $96.31 a barrel on Wednesday, September 21, 2022, compared with $96.55 the previous day, according to OPEC Secretariat calculations.