Fitch Ratings has raised South Africa's credit rating, citing stronger fiscal discipline and lower-than-expected debt, marking its first upgrade of the country in more than two decades.
Around 20 flights carrying equipment and staff have landed at a base in Kenya where the U.S. govt is continuing to build an Ebola quarantine facility despite protests and Kenyan court orders blocking it, according to flight data and officials. https://t.co/rARcysvHxt @Reuters
According to state broadcaster @SABC_Sport, visas for at least 20 members of the squad are still being processed at the United States embassy in Johannesburg.
Orders granted!
The Court certified the application as urgent and granted interim conservatory orders restraining the Respondents from establishing, operationalising, approving, or facilitating any Ebola exposure, quarantine, isolation, or treatment facility in Kenya under any arrangement with the United States or any other foreign government or agency, pending the hearing of the application.
The Court further barred the Respondents from admitting into, transferring to, receiving within, or facilitating the entry into Kenya of any persons exposed to or infected with Ebola pursuant to the impugned arrangement.
The matter is scheduled for mention on 2nd June 2026 for further directions.
La Haute cour constitutionnelle de Madagascar, plus haute instance judiciaire, a rejeté jeudi une demande de destitution du colonel Michael Randrianirina, au pouvoir depuis octobre, statuant qu'elle n'entrait pas dans le cadre légal.
Madagascar’s top court on Thursday rejected a bid by an opposition lawmaker to remove the country's president, Colonel Michael Randrianirina, ruling the challenge "inadmissible.” MP Antoine Rajerison had accused Randrianirina of treason for “serious and repeated violations of the constitution.” (📸: CFP)
Jannik Sinner's 30-match winning run has come to an abrupt halt at the #FrenchOpen as the world number one succumbed to sweltering conditions in a five-set, second-round loss to Juan Manuel Cerundolo.
Anti-immigrant protests are flaring again in South Africa, with vigilantes threatening to remove undocumented migrants by June 30, reviving a politically charged issue in a country battered by economic hardship.
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