Oil slams after Saudi Arabia institutes price war
RIYADH, (CAJ News / Bloomberg) – OIL plunged over 30 percent on Monday after top exporter Saudi Arabia launched a price war in response to a failure by leading producers to…
Africa & World
Five years on, no trace of kidnapped activist
from MARCUS MUSHONGA in Harare, Zimbabwe HARARE, (CAJ News) – FIVE years after a Zimbabwean journalist and pro-democracy activist, Itai Dzamara, went missing, his…
Coronavirus threat growing across Africa
from ROSY SADOU in Douala, Cameroon & FATAO LOULOUM in Lome, Togo West Africa Bureau DOUALA, (CAJ News) – THE coronavirus (COVID-19) is spreading like veld fire across…
Unity over COVID-19 ushers in new world order
True Gospel with SAVIOUS PARKER KWINIKA IF the same spirit of oneness displayed in tackling the globally devastating and calamitous coronavirus disease (COVID-19) was exhibited in…
Military frees children linked to Boko Haram
from AHMED OBAFEMI in Maiduguri, Nigeria MAIDUGURI, (CAJ News) – THE Nigerian Army has released from custody 223 children detained for alleged links with the Boko Haram. Among…
Botswana, Zimbabwe ties at their greatest in decades
from ODIRILE TOTENG in Gaborone, Botswana GABORONE, (CAJ News) – THE signing of a number of bilateral agreements under the second Zimbabwe-Botswana Bi-National Commission (BNC),…
Nigeria to hang kidnappers
from EMEKA OKONKWO in Abuja, Nigeria ABUJA, (CAJ News) – NIGERIAN authorities have reported a trend by unscrupulous members of the public claiming to be bandits and…
At last, Ebola on the verge of elimination
from JEAN KASSONGO in Kinshasa, DRC KINSHASA, (CAJ News) – THE countdown has begun towards the declaration of the end of the world’s second-deadliest Ebola epidemic in the…
Global issues, local concerns pummel SA economy
by AKANI CHAUKE JOHANNESBURG, (CAJ News) – ANALYSTS have forecast a further recession of the South African economy because of load shedding, the raging coronavirus (COVID-19)…
Refugees in Cape Town in limbo
from DION HENRICK in Cape Town CAPE TOWN, (CAJ News) – THE refugees currently displaced in the city of Cape Town are in a dilemma after it emerged the countries where they…