Southern Africa

South Africa celebrates the memory of former President Nelson Mandela. Known as "Mandela Day", this day aims to hire him. Each person can donate 67 minutes of their time to a good cause. This year, after several days of looting in the country, it is the clean-up operations that have become apparent. In the Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal regions, several communities have come together to clean up companies…

The 2021 edition of the Global Peace Index, an index from the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP), a Sydney-based think tank, sees five African countries ranked among the ten least peaceful nations in the world. South Africa has been on fire since the imprisonment of its former president Jacob Zuma. It is likely to be included next year in the list of least…

KwaZulu-Natal is the province most affected by the spiral of violence that has shaken South Africa in recent days, with 180 dead out of a total of more than 200 killed in the wake of ex-president Jacob Zuma's prison. It is in this region that President Cyril Ramaphosa visited on Friday, July 16, to assess the damage. The Minister of Police was also present this Saturday, July 17, as well as figures from…

The military force of the South African Development Community was due to arrive in the province of Cabo Delgado on Thursday, plagued by a jihadist uprising, at the official request of Mozambique's President Filipe Nyusi, but it never arrived. As expected yesterday, SADC has finally postponed the dispatch of its troops to…

The Executive Committee of the African Football Confederation (ComEx) (ComF), which met on 16 July 2021 in Morocco, reaffirmed the existence of a Super League project bringing together the best clubs on the continent. CAF ExCom has also shown its support for a World Cup that is held every two years. The Champions League, the…

On Wednesday evening, 14 July, the Minister of Defense announced the deployment of 25,000 soldiers to stop the violence. riots that were originally triggered by the arrest of former President Jacob Zuma, but which quickly turned into looting. In Gauteng, Johannesburg and Pretoria and their surroundings, the situation is more or…

Wednesday morning "the South Africans woke up again from the shooting", explains The inhabitant, to set the interior directly. A new muscular awakening "as extensive protests and looting continued in large parts of Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal, with the risk of spreading to other provinces", states the citizen. On the first page of its website, the daily newspaper also keeps records: 1,234 people have been arrested at the…

Crowds looted shops and businesses in South Africa on Wednesday, defying the government's demand that a week of violence end more than 70 people, killing hundreds of businesses and closing a refinery. Protests that followed the imprisonment of ex-president Jacob Zuma last week for failing to appear at a corruption investigation have been extended to looting and an outbreak of general anger over the difficulties and inequality that persist 27 years after the end of apartheid. Shopping malls and…

After days of protests and looting after the imprisonment of former President Jacob Zuma, troops were sent out to stop the violence that shook the country. .

The violence in South Africa has killed at least 72 people. The violence began on Friday in the KwaZulu-Natal region, the Jacob Zuma region, the day after the later prison. They also affected Johannesburg. "Law enforcement agencies are doubling their efforts to stop the violence and increase their deployment on the ground,"…