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Zimbabwe fuel prices rose by more than seven percent on Monday as sparks from the Russia-Ukraine conflict started being felt in the southern African country.
The 12-day-old Russia-Ukraine war “needs to be resolved through mediation, negotiation and peaceful means”, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Monday.
Catholic bishops in Malawi have criticised President Lazarus Chakwera’s government for paying lip service to the fight against corruption and for lacking a clear plan of action to address the woes facing the country.
US carrier United Airlines will launch flights between Washington DC’s Dulles International Airport and Cape Town International Airport in November, the airline announced on Saturday.
South Africa extended by three months to the end of April the deployment of its troops in northern Mozambique where they are involved in fighting an Islamic State-linked insurgency, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced on Friday.
The South African government is investigating the activities of the four individuals who were this week designated as financial facilitators of Islamic State operations on the continent, a senior official said.
Local election observers have called for tolerance of divergent political views as Zimbabwe heads towards violence-marred parliamentary and local government by-elections later this month and watershed general elections next year.
The United Nations plans to vaccinate about 2.9 million children in Malawi against polio after the southern African country declared an outbreak of the disease last month.
President Filipe Nyusi has dismissed Carlos Agostinho do Rosario as Mozambique’s prime minister and replaced him with former finance minister Adriano Afonso Maleiane.
Namibia’s national petroleum company has signed an oil exploration and production agreement with a Qatari government-owned energy firm, according to reports monitored here on Thursday.