REGIONAL NEWS

Health Reporter

Recent outbreak of Polio has put Southern Africa under threat of a potential Polio outbreak.

Staff Reporter

…As meteorologists predict another hit

The SADC Climate Services in collaboration with other climate centres predicted that the SADC region will experience heavy and increased rains in the next coming days.

Staff Reporter

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) will on 7 January 2022 hold a virtual Extraordinary Summit of Heads of State and Government to review progress and mandate of the SADC Mission in Mozambique (SAMIM).

Agriculture Reporter

Zimbabwe and Zambia are set to establish an agro industrial park as the two countries endeavour to rebuild their economies from the devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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.