Anaït Miridzhanian

1 week 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.

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.

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”.

1 month 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.

1 month 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.