AFRICA NEWS

Staff Reporter

President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday urged African nations to assist and protect each other during this period of Covid-19 pandemic, following Zimbabwe’s donation of 20 000 Covid-19 vaccines to Namibia which is currently mired in its third wave of the pandemic.

Zivanai Dhewa

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has called South Africans to order, warning against misinformation circulating on social media meant to whip up people’s emotions towards the destruction of the country’s infrastructure, while the country is struggling to keep its economy afloat during this COVID-19 pandemic.

Zivanai Dhewa

The SADC Chairperson of the Organ on Politics, Defence and Security , President of Botswana, Dr Mokgweetsi Eric Keabetswe Masisi despatched a fact finding team to the Kingdom of Eswatini to find ways of solving the conflicts bedevilling that country and dialogue was agreed upon as a lasting solution.

Zivanai Dhewa

…SADC tells the eSwati people

SADC, through its Chairperson of the Organ on Politics, Defence and Security, President of Botswana, Dr Mokgweetsi Eric Keabetswe Masisi, has urged the people and government of Eswatini to channel their grievances through the established channel.  This followed the continued escalation of clashes between the government and its opposing groups.

Zivanai Dhewa

…As misinformation threatens the peace of that nation

The Government of Eswatini has warned of an invisible hand that is using the media to circulate false and unverified information meant to destabilise the peace prevailing in that country, while rubbishing false information that the Eswatini government has declared Marshal Law.

Political Reporter

The Eswatini Government has refuted claims by some media outlets that King Mswati III had fled the country amid violent protests that had shaken the Southern African country.

Staff Reporter

The SADC Council of Ministers yesterday held a Virtual meeting where they agreed and approved the budget for the deployment of the Regional Standby Force to be deployed in Mozambique.

Staff Reporter

His Excellency, the President of Zimbabwe, Cde Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday joined other SADC Heads of States for the Extraordinary Summit of the Heads of State and Government  in Maputo, Mozambique, where they agreed to deploy a Standby Force Mission to combat terrorism in that country.

Staff Reporter

Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema has lauded Zimbabwe’s vaccination programme, saying very soon South Africans will be illegally crossing the boarder to seek vaccination in Zimbabwe as the country is experiencing serious vaccine shortage.

Staff Reporter

The SADC Extraordinary Double Summit held in Mozambique yesterday directed an immediate technical deployment to the Republic of Mozambique, and the convening of an extra ordinary meeting of the Ministerial Committee of the Organ by 28 April 2021 that will report to the Extraordinary Organ Summit on 29 April 2021.

Staff Reporter

The SADC family is seriously concerned about the deterioration of security situation in Mozambique where insurgents continue to kill innocent people, threatening regional peace and security as well as the integrity and sovereignty of that country.

By Staff Writer

President Emmerson Mnangagwa has called on Zimbabwe and Africa to lace up its discourse around investment and partnerships towards economic reconstruction, in order to be able to achieve the African Union’s Agenda 2063 and realisation of the ‘Africa we want.’