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Angola
The Provincial Director of Health, João Campos Cacungula, says at least 443 people have died of malaria in central Bie province during the months of January and February 2018. Most of those who died are under the age of 15.

Botswana
Cabinet ministers who are likely to be dropped in the looming reshuffle are living in double fear following the resignation of President Ian Khama at the end of March. Not only will they lose lucrative positions but are set suffer double blow, since once they are weakened their opponents are likely to move in for a kill at the primary elections.

DRC
There have been calls for United Nations actions in the DRC. A Human Rights Watch says most of the violence around the country is linked to a broader political crisis, as President Joseph Kabila has stayed in power beyond the constitutionally mandated two-term limit by delaying elections and suppressing any dissent.

Lesotho
The Lesotho government wants SADC troops to remain in Lesotho beyond their original six month mandate because the business for which they were deployed is not yet finished. The SADC force was essentially deployed to prevent rogue LDF soldiers from destabilizing Dr. Thabane’s coalition as it went about implementing SADC recommended reforms to curb perennial instability in the Kingdom.

Madagascar
Mozambique’s Minister of the Sea, Inland Waters and Fisheries, Agostinho Mondlane, and his visiting counterpart from Madagascar, Gilbert François, want to sign bilateral agreements to combat illegal tuna fishing in their maritime waters, APA can report on Wednesday.The two officials met late on Tuesday in the Mozambican capital, Maputo.

Malawi
Britain's Prince Harry hosted Malawian President Prof. Arthur Peter Mutharika at Buckingham Palace in London when they had a private audience on Tuesday. According to Presidential Press Secretary Mgeme Kalilani, the prince and the Malawi leader discussed how to furhter promote wildlife conservation as one way of enriching benefits that Malawi gets from it's tourism industy.

Mauritius
The State Bank of Mauritius has completed the takeover of a 75 percent stake in Chase Bank Kenya Limited. SMB now acquires the assets and liabilities of the bank that was placed under receivership in 2016 by the Central Bank of Kenya due to financial hiccups. The Mauritius based bank acquired another Kenyan lender Fidelity bank last year, making its foray into the east African market.

Mozambique
Fourteen wild dogs flew from Phongola, KwaZulu-Natal, to Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique, on Monday afternoon. This is part of a programme to reintroduce the endangered animals to that country. There are only around 6,600 wild dogs left in Africa. They will spend the next few weeks in an enclosed site to get used to their new environment before entering the wild.

Namibia
Namibia's exports of precious minerals generated N$23 billion in the 2017/2018 financial year, deputy mines minister Kornelia Shilunga revealed yesterday, although beneficiation protagonists would probably want to know how much of this directly benefited Namibians. A further N$28 million was earned from petroleum exploration and production rental fees, while an additional N$2.3 million was collected from mineral licenses, Shilunga announced in the National Assembly yesterday.

Seychelles
The President of Seychelles, Danny Faure, is joining other world leaders at the 25th meeting of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) to be held in London from April 16 to 20.
The 2018 CHOGM is taking place under the theme "Towards a Common Future".

South Africa
South Africa "took strong exception" to a recent travel advisory issued by the Australian government. Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Lindiwe Sisulu said in a statement on Wednesday that the advisory contained "misleading information about South Africa in general and, in particular, about the experiences of foreign tourists visiting South Africa". The advisory warned visitors to South Africa to "exercise a high degree of caution".

Swaziland
Zweli Martin Dlamini, the editor who had his newspaper closed down by the Swaziland Government before he fled to neighbouring South Africa, has called for an international commission of inquiry into how the state has captured the media in the kingdom. The media, even those not directly owned and controlled by the government, have become a 'propaganda machine for the state,' he said.

Tanzania
Tanzanians living abroad send home an average of $456.5 million annually. A total of $2.28 billion was remitted between 2013 and 2017, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and East African Cooperation told Parliament yesterday.

Zambia
Two public figures have revealed that President Edgar Lungu is not the person he says he is and that he stole someone’s identity. The two opposition figures have since revealed that Mr Lungu is infact Jonathan Mutaware, a Malawian. Speaking on Prime TV’s Oxgen of Democracy programme on Monday night, People’s Party President Mike Mulongoti and New Labour Party President Fresher Siwale challenged President Lungu to produce his National Registration Card as a way of proving his true identity.

Zimbabwe
Government hospitals have come to a standstill after the government of Zimbabwe on Tuesday 17 April 2018, the eve of Zimbabwe’s independence fired nurses employed at state-run hospitals, who had been on a work boycott protesting against poor salaries and unfavorable working conditions. One report revealed that nightshift nurses were being pad 76 US cents an hour.
Wilddogs Catch a Plane to Mozambique
Fourteen South African wild dogs took a plane from Phongola, KwaZulu-Natal, to Mozambique on Monday afternoon.

They arrived at their destination at the Gorongosa National Park shortly after 17:00, Endangered Wildlife Trust’s David Marneweck told Business Insider South Africa.

“It’s awfully exciting… it’s the first time we are doing anything of this kind.”

The relocation of the wild dogs is a part of a programme to reintroduce carnivores to the Gorongosa National Park.

The eight male and six female dogs were sedated before boarding the plane and slept throughout the two-hour flight.

They were all vaccinated against canine distemper and rabies before leaving for Mozambique, as infectious diseases are a big threat to wild dogs

“There really weren’t any hiccups with their flight… the wild dogs woke up this morning without any growls – they seem happy,” Marneweck said from reserve.

They will spend the next few weeks in an enclosed site to get used to their new environment before entering the wild.

Wild dogs, along with other species, disappeared from the Gorongosa park during the Mozambican civil war between 1977 and 1992.

Since then, the park has reintroduced several animals to the area.

“With the abundance of herbivores, the natural next step is the return of large carnivores,” the Endangered Wildlife Trust wrote in a statement.

Marneweck explained that wild dogs are important in an ecosystem to keep buck numbers under control. “Wild dogs usually hunt the weakest, ill or injured members of a buck tribe which ensures that only healthy buck remain,” Marneweck said.

There are only around 6,600 wild dogs left in Africa, and the animals are considered some f the continent’s most at-risk carnivores.

By James de Villiers

Source: Business Insider SA
Reference Number:
2-2018