here is your latest african news malawi weather experts say another tropical cyclone halima
is building up weather experts say another cyclone is building up after a detection of development in
the indian ocean northeast of madagascar island that may result into a new tropical cyclone
officials from the department of climate change and metrological services say they
will be informing the nation of any threat the developments may bring in the country according to
yobukachiwanda spokesperson for the department of climate change and metrological services cyclones
are given names alphabetically therefore any next tropical cyclone will be named halima
cyclone anna had been the most devastating killing over 40 people and causing huge damage
to infrastructure including buildings and roads tanzania maasai community threatened by tanzania's
hunting plan more than 1 000 community members in northern tanzania have gathered to protest
against the government's plan to evict the people of leondo from their ancestral land according to
international land coalition africa more than seventy three thousand indigenous people from
lyondo and about ninety thousand in the gorongoro conservation area faced eviction to make way for
elite tourism and trophy hunting the government plans to leave gorongoro conservation area
home to over one million wildebeests and the endangered black rhino to hunting company
ortalo business corporation which belongs to the royal family in the united arab emirates
according to the country's 1999 legislation that governs the land management
all land in loliondo is classified as village land for many years the government has accused
maasai communities in their cattle hearts in loliondo and gorongoro of encroaching
on important wildlife breeding grounds and disrupting migratory routes for wildebeest
local maasai leaders in the disputed areas have called the latest move to establish
a wildlife hunting corridor on the ancestral land absurd claiming that it would effectively
deny thousands of harders a place to leave as well as access to pasture and water for their animals
the maasai a nomadic ethnic group in east africa who have coexisted peacefully with
wildlife for centuries while protecting the area's ecological violence have come
under increasing pressure from commercial interests that threaten their way of life
zimbabwe the u.s government sued in gauting high court over zimbabwe sanctions
in a potentially groundbreaking international case a group called
the zimbabwe anti-sanctions movement zasm has filed papers in the galting high court
asking it to declare u.s sanctions against zimbabwe unlawful and constitutional and invalid
if successful the case could see the beginning of normalized financial relations with south africa's
northern neighbour south african and international banks are reluctant to deal with zimbabwe even in
cases where this is not explicitly prohibited for fear of incurring heavy penalties from the u.s
among those cited as respondents are the u.s president president of the u.s senate
speaker of the house treasury secretary and several u.s and south african banking groups
the zasm court application says sanctions applied by the u.s on zimbabwe
prejudices ordinary zimbabweans by denying the country access to international credit
markets and by cutting off international aid and donor assistance
south africa south african watchdog targets met her over its abuse of dominance
mata is facing prosecution in south africa after the country's competition regulator the
competition commission found as uncompetitive its intent to block the government startup
golf chat and hashtag letstalk from using its whatsapp business api the watchdog which has
been investigating claims of unfair conduct against the startup since march 2021 refined
meta formerly facebook for prosecution to the competition tribunal which adjudicates complaints
of restrictive practices and abuse of dominance in its referral the regulator recommends that
meta is made to pay the maximum penalty a fine of 10 percent of the u.s company's local turnover
the commission alleges that meta imposed unfair restrictions on data usage by their startup
limiting its ability to innovate and develop new products and services that could potentially
compete with meta's products in addition to the platform being a source of alerts and complaints
on civic issues like portholes and roads golf chat has been used by the government to process
social security applications including distress support during the covet 19 pandemic
over 13.3 billion applications have been submitted through the golf [ __ ] platform
the referral for prosecution comes days after competition supervisory bodies from five
african countries including south africa signed a memorandum of understanding that would among other
agenda force the collaboration action against the obstacles that limit emergence and expansion of
african digital platforms the other parties to the argument were egypt kenya mauritius and nigeria
mali mali to stop broadcast by french radio and tv stations
mali's ruling military government has ordered french broadcasters rfi and france 24 off air due
to falsely accusing the government of commuting abuses both rfi radio and france 24 television who
receive funding from france will not be accessible in mali for an undetermined time according to the
government spokesman carl abdullahi maiga in a statement mali said it was taking the action
because both channels had reported on allegations made by un's michelle bachelet and the rights
group human rights watch that malian soldiers had killed numerous civilians in recent months
carl abdullahi maiga said that the false allegations were made in reports on 14th and
15th march in which rfi gave the floor to alleged victims of abuses committed by the malian army
and the russian mercenary group wagner thanks for watching please subscribe follow share and
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