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timeslive.co.za | Nilutpal Timsina |Sonia Rolley |Anaït Miridzhanian
14 May 2025 - 16:45 Just R20 for the first month. Support independent journalism by subscribing to our digital news package. Members of the M23 rebel group in Goma, North Kivu province in eastern DRC. An escalation of fighting in the region has strained the nation's public finances, the International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday. File photo.
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2 weeks ago | 
mining.com | Anaït Miridzhanian
At least 10 people were killed in a gold mine collapse in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the rebel-appointed governor of South Kivu province said on Thursday. M23 rebels have seized east Congo’s two biggest cities since January in an escalation of a long-running conflict rooted in the spillover into Congo of Rwanda’s 1994 genocide and the struggle for control of Congo’s vast mineral resources.
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3 weeks ago | 
mining.com | Anaït Miridzhanian
Reuters | April 23, 2025 | 9:41 am Top Companies Africa Gold Ghana and Gold Fields have reached an agreement on a transitional plan for Damang mine, the West African country’s presidency said on Wednesday. Last week, Ghana assumed operational control of the mine after it rejected an application from the South African company to renew its lease, breaking a tradition of automatically renewing licenses.
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1 month ago | 
mining.com | Anaït Miridzhanian |Robbie Corey-Boulet
Ghana has ordered foreigners to exit its gold trading market by the end of the month, a new government body said on Monday, as the West African country looks to streamline gold purchases from small-scale miners, increase earnings and reduce smuggling. Africa’s leading gold producer is shifting away from a system in which local and foreign companies with export licenses can buy and export gold from artisanal or small-scale mining.
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1 month ago | 
timeslive.co.za | Anaït Miridzhanian
18 March 2025 - 08:01 Just R20 for the first month. Support independent journalism by subscribing to our digital news package. Rwanda's President Paul Kagame has repeatedly denied backing M23 rebels but says the country will do everything necessary to defend itself from Hutu militants in the DRC, 30 years after the 1994 genocide.
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1 month ago | 
businesslive.co.za | Anaït Miridzhanian
Nairobi — Belgium and Rwanda announced the expulsion of each other’s diplomats, as relations deteriorated over allegations about their respective roles in the conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Kigali said it was severing diplomatic relations and giving Belgian diplomats 48 hours to leave the east African country, accusing Brussels of “using lies and manipulation to secure an unjustified hostile opinion of Rwanda”.
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2 months ago | 
timeslive.co.za | Anaït Miridzhanian
Namibia has confirmed the first case of cholera in ten years, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday, adding that laboratory confirmation of the disease was “a major alert” for the country's health officials. The patient, a 55-year-old woman exhibiting symptoms of diarrhoea, has recovered and was discharged from a hospital in the country's northwest Kunene region, Namibia's health ministry said on Tuesday.
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2 months ago | 
dailydispatch.co.za | Tannur Anders |Anaït Miridzhanian |Thapelo Morebudi
The Southern African Development Community (Sadc) said on Thursday a summit of regional heads of state had terminated the mandate of its troop deployment in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and decided on a “phased withdrawal”. “Summit terminated the mandate of SAMIDRC and directed the commencement of a phased withdrawal of SAMIDRC troops from the DRC,” Sadc said in a communique after the summit.
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2 months ago | 
timeslive.co.za | Tannur Anders |Anaït Miridzhanian
13 March 2025 - 14:01 Just R20 for the first month. Support independent journalism by subscribing to our digital news package. The casket for the late LCpl Tseke Moffat Molapo is seen draped with the South African national flag on a cannon during his funeral at Moroke village in Burgersfort. He was one of 14 South African soldiers killed in the DRC recently.
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2 months ago | 
bizcommunity.com | Lindsey Schutters |Anaït Miridzhanian |Ngouda Dione
Seacom, a leading pan-African provider of connectivity and cloud services, is pleased to announce its partnership with Q-Kon, an innovative satellite engineering enterprise for sub-Saharan Africa. This collaboration will enhance the Seacom low-earth orbit (Leo) satellite connectivity services, which have been offered in South Africa since early 2024.
