Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe PRETORIA, Feb 20 (NNN-SANEWS) — South Africa’s Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe says interventions are being implemented to help Eskom meet the energy demand. Mantashe said this when he participated in a debate on the State of the Nation Address (SONA) in the National…

A motorbike taxi drive past campaign banners LOME, Feb 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Togo’s national election commission has revoked a main independent observer group’s accreditation to monitor the country’s presidential election, just days before the vote is due to take place. Long-standing President Faure Gnassingbe is widely expected to win Saturday’s…

MAPUTO, Feb 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Villagers are fleeing a gas-rich region in northern Mozambique as energy giants are pleading for more protection in the face of mounting attacks by a shadowy jihadist group.Security officials and local residents described a bushfire of fear spreading in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique’s northernmost province, and…

A Niger soldier stands guard at a camp in Diffa NIAMEY, Feb 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) — UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is deeply saddened by the reports of the deaths of at least 20 people, among them women and infants, during a stampede for food and cash in Niger’s Diffa region.…

Elyes Fakhfakh leaves for a meeting with Kais Saied in Tunis TUNIS, Feb 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Tunisian President Kais Saied said that he will dissolve parliament if the government of Prime Minister-designate Elyes Fakhfakh fails to obtain parliamentary confidence vote. Saied’s statements came after the Ennahdha Party officially announced it…

MOGADISHU, Feb 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Somali security forces killed several al-Shabaab militants who had attempted to raid military bases in the southern region on Tuesday night, a government official said. Government spokesman Ismael Mukhtar Omar said a group of militants conducted a pre-dawn vehicle-borne improvised explosive device attack on Somali…