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Indian firm Cipla Limited will produce an affordable version of the product at its plants in Benoni or Durban Exclusive News South Africa is set to become a manufacturing hub for an affordable version of the innovative HIV-prevention drug CAP-LA. The move is expected to provide millions of people with access to the drug in a region that the World Health Organization (WHO) says accounts…

Two of the victims were local consulate staff and two were policemen Exclusive News Gunmen in south-eastern Nigeria attacked a convoy of US embassy vehicles on Tuesday, killing two local employees and two police officers, according to RT News. Reporter Judith Atibi told RT that the attack took place in the area of Ogbaru in Anambra State, a hotbed of separatist violence. She explained…

The leaders will go to Russia and Ukraine hoping to create conditions for peace negotiations, South Africa’s Foreign Ministry said Exclusive News South Africa’s foreign ministry has announced that six African presidents are soon expected to jointly travel to Moscow and Kiev in hopes of facilitating negotiations between the two countries. Details of the endeavor are still being…

Julius Malema says the court has turned a blind eye to serious crimes Exclusive News According to RT News, South Africa and other African countries must withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC), Julius Malema, the leader of South African opposition party the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) has urged. Malema vowed his party would lead this effort and accused the ICC of…

The $40 million offer is meant to expand value-preserving instruments available in the economy, according to the country’s central bank Exclusive News According to RT News, Kenyan President William Ruto said his government would take responsibility for the deaths of more than 200 members of a Christian cult who starved themselves in order “to meet Jesus.”  “I am…

The $40 million offer is meant to expand value-preserving instruments available in the economy, according to the country’s central bank Exclusive News The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has sold gold-backed digital tokens worth around $40 million, in defiance of a warning from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The action, according to officials, aims to stabilize the…

Only 13 of the 37 passengers who were on board the canoe have been rescued, police say Exclusive News A one-year-old boy has drowned and 23 people remain missing after a hippopotamus overturned a boat on Malawi’s largest river, the Shire, on Monday. The baby, identified by local media as Abraham Francis, was sailing with his mother in the Nsanje district when the incident occurred.