Muslims began marking Ramadan with communal prayers Tuesday in a socially distanced contrast to the empty mosques of a year ago when Islam’s holiest month coincided with the start of the coronavirus pandemic. The Associated Press reports that mosques were allowed to...

The Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo has announced a new cabinet. FSN reports that the announcement comes four months after President Felix Tshisekedi broke up the coalition he led with his predecessor Joseph Kabila over a power struggle.

The Windhoek municipality is planning to roll out the installation of prepaid water meters to reduce residents' water-consumption debts. The Namibian newspaper reports that the prepaid devices will replace current water meters, which have been blamed for residents'...

The United Nations’ health agency on Tuesday urged countries to suspend the sale of live animals captured from the wild in food markets as an emergency measure, saying wild animals are a leading source of emerging infectious diseases like the coronavirus. The...

Absa clients have reacted with shock to the news that Absa is closing its money market fund. According to Moneyweb, the fund is worth 75.47-billion-rand. Absa says the unit trust fund, which has been operating since 1997, will be closed on 6 July. The bank gave no...

The Ministry of Labour, Industrial Relations and Employment Creation has confirmed that D&M Rail has filled some of the vacancies through it. According to a statement by the Ministry's Executive Director Bro-Mathews Shinguadja, they referred 53 job seekers of...

Ukraine's foreign minister is due to visit NATO headquarters on Tuesday amid major troop movements in Ukraine and Russia. According to FSN, Dmitro Kuleba and his US counterpart  — Secretary of State Antony Blinken — will be there later in the week, to reaffirm the US...

The Mozambican government says it needs more than $114m for the socio-economic reconstruction of the district town of Palma, in northern Cabo Delgado province, recently vandalised by Islamist terrorists. BBC reports that the Minister of State Administration and Public...

Government has spent N$165 million to accommodate Covid-19 patients at guest houses and luxury hotels since the start of the deadly pandemic last year, official statistics provided by the health ministry have revealed. The Namibian Sun newspaper reports that upmarket...

The United Nations Refugee Agency says Yemen is suffering from the world’s worst humanitarian catastrophe, now further compounded by the Covid-19 pandemic, and most recently heavy rainfalls causing flash floods. About 24-million people remain in need of humanitarian...