PALO ALTO, California, Dec. 3, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — According to the World Health Organization, the number of new cancer cases diagnosed per year in Africa is expected to grow from over 1 million in 2018 to over 2.1 million in 2040. Continuing its program of expanding access to advanced cancer treatments in Africa to help address this […]
Day: December 3, 2019
Sudan Tanker Explodes at Ceramics Factory
KHARTOUM – A gas tanker exploded at a ceramics factory in Khartoum on Tuesday, killing at least 23 people and injuring dozens more.Eyewitnesses in the Sudanese capital said the tanker exploded while a shipment was being unloaded.Doctors at Bahari Hospi…
Sudan Overturns Controversial Clothing, Drinking Law
KHARTOUM – Sudan’s transitional government has overturned a moral policing law that criminalized certain clothing for women and drinking alcohol.It also has dissolved the country’s former ruling party, carrying out two key demands of Sudan’s pro-democr…
Cameroon Says 250 Ex-Militants Surrendered in 2019
BAMENDA – Cameroon says over 250 former militants, including Boko Haram terrorists and anglophone separatists, have surrendered in the past year and are being rehabilitated. But former rebels say lack of trust in Cameroon’s military is preventing more…
Auction Results (December 3)
The 7-day BoBC yield remained unchanged at 1.41 percent from the previous week, for a paper maturing on December 11, 2019. The results of the auction held on December 3, 2019 are summarised below.Source: Bank of Botswana
South Africa: Press Ramaphosa backs life sentence for rapists
PRETORIA, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa says the government is working on measures that will see convicted rapists handed life sentences and given the harshest of labour in prison.This is in response to a spate of gruesome rapes and murders o…