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By Nelson Banya (Reuters) – South Africa’s logistics utility Transnet on Friday suspended freight rail services on its North East Corridor, which links with several countries in southern Africa, as heavy rains...

"Disruptive weather conditions in Mpumalanga and Limpopo have adversely affected Transnet Freight Rail operations in the North-East Corridor," Transnet said. "Heavy, abnormal rains damaged the rail infrastructure across the corridor's major commodity pathways resulting in severe disruption to the train service," the utility said.

Transnet Freight Rail has shut down 90% of its North-East railway Corridor due to damage caused by heavy rain

The statistics are beginning to show the results of the efforts South Africa makes in order to combat rhino poaching, says Albi Modise, head of Communications Office at the Department of Forestry, Fisheries, and the Environment.

Chairperson of the National Council of Chiefs & Elders in Liberia, Chief Zanzan, has made a historic announcement, declaring FGM is banned across Liberia.

IColo, a Kenyan carrier-neutral data centre provider with campuses in Mombasa and Nairobi, says it has opened its first data centre in Mozambique.

Safe Hands for Girls (https://apo-opa.info/3XhnfGj)  – represented by the UN Women Goodwill Ambassador Jaha Dukureh – and Equality Now (https://apo-opa.info/3jIWTzk) wish to congratulate Chief Zanzan Karwor, the Chairperson of the National Council of Chiefs and Elders in Liberia (https://apo-opa.info/40TEXTA), and the entire council for declaring a ban on female genital mutilation (FGM) in Liberia on […]

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is conducting a training on ‘Undercover and Surveillance Techniques’ in Mauritius this week. This is the DEA’s third training in partnership with law enforcement agencies in Mauritius. The opening

Paper and packaging group Sappi's shares slumped on Wednesday, when it said a buildup in customer inventory helped prompt a fall in first-quarter volumes of almost a third.


Mozambique - Ivan Campos, 25, and Walter Evaristo, 29, are Mozambican activists who work to defend the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in the country.Report by Mateus Fotine, mateusfotine@gmail.com, Contributing