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Tim Cocks

Johannesburg

Chief Correspondent at Reuters

Author, Lagos: Supernatural City. #Reuters Africa Hack (20+ yrs on #MotherContinent). Winner SABEW award. Reggae Junkie. Champagne Socialist. Books.

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  • 2 weeks ago | reuters.com | Tim Cocks

    JOHANNESBURG, June 13 (Reuters) - Donald Trump's cuts to HIV/AIDS programmes will further derail an already faltering plan to end the disease as a public health threat by 2030, UNAIDS Executive Director Winnie Byanyima said on Friday. With 1.3 million new infections in 2023, according to the latest data, the world was already "off track," Byanyima told journalists in South Africa, a country with the world's largest number of people living with HIV, at 8 million. Sign up here.

  • 2 weeks ago | ground.news | Tim Cocks

    With 1.3 million new infections in 2023, according to the latest data, the world was already “off track,” UNAIDS Executive Director Winnie Byanyima told journalists in South Africa, a country with the world’s largest number of people living with HIV, at 8 million.

  • 2 weeks ago | businesslive.co.za | Siyanda Mthethwa |Sfundo Parakozov |Tim Cocks

    The death toll from floods in SA’s Eastern Cape province has risen to 49, the head of the province said on Wednesday. Parts of SA have been lashed by heavy rain and snow since the weekend, in a severe winter cold front that has disrupted transport and power networks. “The status has escalated to 49 (deaths),” Eastern Cape premier Oscar Mabuyane told a press conference. Earlier, a school bus was swept away by floods near Mthatha and a provincial safety official said eight bodies were recovered.

  • 3 weeks ago | dfa.co.za | Tim Cocks |Sandi Kwon Hoo |Boipelo Mere |Benida Phillips

    |Published 55 seconds agoLesser flamingos in the Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania. Image: Charles J Sharp / FileBy Tim CocksKIMBERLEY - Until the last half-decade, the majestic lesser flamingo had four African breeding sites: two salt pans in Botswana and Namibia, a soda lake in Tanzania, and an artificial dam outside South Africa's historic diamond-mining town of Kimberley. Now it only has three.

  • 1 month ago | bizcommunity.com | Tim Cocks

    2 days7 days30 daysBy Industry Show moreAdvertise your job vacancies Until the last half-decade, the majestic lesser flamingo had four African breeding sites: two salt pans in Botswana and Namibia, a soda lake in Tanzania, and an artificial dam outside South Africa's historic diamond-mining town of Kimberley. Image source: jcomp from FreepikNow it only has three.

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Tim Cocks
Tim Cocks @timcocks
9 Oct 24

European donors attempted to woo #SouthAfrica's sceptical #coal belt to embrace #renewable energy. Let’s just say there’s a lot of convincing left to do …. https://t.co/AOXwoNuUf7

Tim Cocks
Tim Cocks @timcocks
27 Sep 24

#SouthAfrica’s donor-funded #EnergyTransition is moving slowly as politicians fret about how to prevent its coal belt going into terminal economic decline… #ClimateCatastrophe #RenewableEnergy https://t.co/nEEiKN9zTX

Tim Cocks
Tim Cocks @timcocks
31 Jul 24

Uju Ifejika (left), one of #Nigeria’s richest female business owners, gambled her entire fortune on a prophecy from her televangelist pastor #TBJoshua and it all went horribly wrong. Read my book ‘Lagos: Supernatural City’ if you want to know what happened next …. https://t.co/yPNaZoqy8U