here's your latest african news south africa africa's top university to bar and vaccinated from
campus the university of cape town will require all staff and students to be vaccinated against
covet 19 from january its council said wednesday details of the plans are expected in december
making africa's top-ranking university the first in the country to require proof of vaccination in
order to access the campus south africa launched electronic vaccination certificates this month
and is debating whether to make inoculation mandatory for certain events south africa aims
to vaccinate 40 million people by february and is about a quarter of the way toward that goal
south sudan south sudan was hit by the worst floods in decades the united nations says
more than 700 000 people have been displaced by the worst floods to hit south sudan in decades
at least 40 people have died across the country as heavy rains and flash floods destroyed livestock
farmlands and homes some of those who have fled have been displaced numerous times over due to
conflict and three years of consecutive flooding unhcr said it has teamed up with
a humanitarian country team and south sudan's government to deliver urgently needed support
to the most affected including hygiene items food emergency shelter and solar lanterns to provide
light it said rains are expected to continue for the remainder of the year
with an anticipated increase in the number of people needing humanitarian assistance scientists
have blamed climate change for the flooding in south sudan and other countries in eastern africa
sudan rival sudan protesters take to the streets of khartoum there's a heavy security presence in
the sudanese capital khartoum as rival political factions mount protests hundreds of supporters
of sudanese transitional government have taken to the streets while pro-military activists maintain
a sit-in outside the presidential palace that started on saturday troops and police have sealed
off roads leading to the army headquarters leaders from both sides have called on their
supporters to keep apart and maintain calm sudan's attempt to transition to civilian rules since
the overthrow of omar al-bashir in 2019 has faced political ethnic and economic pressure
africa wide six african states invest heavily in spying reported six african countries are
investing heavily in the latest surveillance technology to spy on activists business
competitors journalists and other governments and new reports said the institute of development
studies which published the report identified nigeria as the biggest spender with more than
127 million dollars or 92 million pounds invested in surveillance related activities and equipment
in 2017. egypt kenya senegal south africa and sudan have also made significant investments on
surveillance technology the report said internet signal interception citizen surveillance and
internet eavesdropping often happened despite laws granting the right to privacy of communication and
correspondence it added privacy rights in africa are very well guaranteed in most countries however
using this surveillance technology governments are violating those rights national security and
economic interests are cited as the most frequent justification used by the governments to stretch
their surveillance power often in breach of the rights to privacy of private citizens and civil
society organizations egypt is named as one of the countries with the weakest privacy protection laws
without an independent oversight body the state is our only judge jury and regulator cesar report
eswatini eswatini orders facebook closure to carb protest the eswatini government has directed the
country's main telecoms operator mtn to shut down social media giant facebook reports says
the move is part of a bid to curb pro-democracy protests that have been going on for months in the
country ruled by an absolute monarchy privately owned swaziland news website reported on the
government accusing social media platforms of irresponsibly spreading misinformation which
was contributing to the violent attacks and events around the country the latest development comes as
protests continued on the streets of the capital in bambang on thursday since last june esytini has
experienced a wave of protests by demonstrators calling for major constitutional reform that
would allow them to elect their own leaders diaspora barbados elects its first ever president
replacing the british monarchy barbados has elected its first ever president to replace
the united kingdom's queen elizabeth as head of state in a decisive step towards shedding
the caribbean island's colonial past sandra maison was elected on wednesday by a two-thirds vote of a
joint session of the country's house of assembly and senate a milestone the government said is
a statement on its road to a republic a former british colony that gained independence in 1966
the nation of just less than 300 thousand had long maintained its ties with the british monarchy
but calls for full sovereignty and homegrown leadership have risen in recent years maison 72
will be sworn in on november 30th the country's 55th anniversary of independence from the uk a
former jurist who has been the governor general of the island since 2018 she was also the first woman
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