REGIONAL NEWS

Neusa Ferreira Marcelino, the Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe cluster managing director of CMA-CGM, talks to TOGY about whether the country’s ports are ready for potential oil and gas needs and the investment climate. CMA-CGM is an international shipping company offering logistics services for container transportation in more than 160 countries, including Mozambique.

The former South African president Jacob Zuma’s plan to record an album of apartheid-era struggle songs has provoked a political row as opposition politicians labelled the project a taxpayer-funded waste of money.

A high-level Zambian delegation is in Johannesburg to conclude bilateral negotiations and technical meetings regarding the Kasomeno-Mwenda Road between Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

South Africa will invest $1bn in South Sudan's oil industry, according to South Sudan’s oil minister Ezekiel Lol Gatkuoth.

Bloomberg says Zambia’s economic growth is among the fastest growing economies in Africa only second to Ethiopia.

Emerging market currencies that have already seen depreciation this year will continue to be susceptible to balance-of-payment crises, according to the External Vulnerability Index published by business information provider IHS Markit.

The World Health Organization (WHO) said it would convene an emergency committee to decide whether DR Congo's Ebola outbreak is a public health emergency of international concern as confirmed cases and deaths from the virus spiraled.

Africa’s youngest billionaire was abducted by masked gunmen outside a hotel in Tanzania’s main city of Dar Es Salaam on Thursday, BBC reports.

Zambia's Finance Ministry said on Sunday that it was open to dialogue with mining companies over the government's plans to increase mining taxes.

Passengers aboard a South African Airways (SAA) flight, en route from Johannesburg to Hong Kong, were rudely awoken by a mid-air ‘robbery’.

South African Revenue Service (SARS) officials have arrested a South African student who allegedly had US dollars to the value of almost R10m in her hand luggage when she boarded a flight at OR Tambo International Airport.

A few years after the Berlin Wall fell graffiti appeared on a building in the former East Berlin. It read: “The wall is gone, but who will break down the walls in our hearts and minds?”