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ANKARA, May 15 (Xinhua) — Türkiye was heading toward a likely runoff presidential election as Sunday vote count showed neither of the candidates above the 50-percent threshold of the votes to win outright, according to preliminary results delivered by the semi-official Anadolu Agency early Monday.

Early results of Anadolu showed incumbent Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan with a comfortable ahead compared to the opposition rival Kemal Kilicdaroglu, but the gap was narrowed as more votes were counted. Erdogan received 49.67 percentREAD MORE

BEIJING, May 15 (Xinhua) — The recent U.S. Census Bureau data suggest that the U.S. merchandise trade deficit with China was larger in 2022 than when Donald Trump was president, said an article on the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace website.

Adding that America’s overall trade deficit hit an all-time high of 1.18 trillion U.S. dollars, Carnegie noted that this fortifies the view that “tariffs would not reduce U.S. trade deficits and the costs would be paid largely by Americans.” Similarly,READ MORE

ONE of Africa’s most prominent church leaders, Zimbabwean Archbishop Professor Ezekiel Handinawangu Guti, has been globally celebrated as he turned 100 years old. The centurion, the founder of the Zimbabwe Assemblies of God Africa Forward In Faith International (ZAOGA FIF) ministries, officially marked the milestone at an event held at the Glamis Arena in the capital Harare this past weekend.

Believers drawn from across the world, political leaders, business captains and other church leaders among others graced the occasion whileREAD MORE

SOUTH Africans have denounced attempts by Western sponsored media and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) for orchestrating a smear campaign to influence South Africa to support Ukraine and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in the conflict with Russia.

Western sponsored media alongside the Centre for Information Resilience (CIR) have been pushing this agenda. This came about after some pro-Ukraine local media with their American counterparts criticised Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla, daughter of ex-president Jacob Zuma when she expressed her support of Russia’s military operationREAD MORE

SOUTH Africa will not take sides in a contest between global powers, President Cyril Ramaphosa has said as he hit out at critics accusing his country of siding with Russia in the war with Ukraine. Ramaphosa was writing in his weekly letter, days after the United States envoy in South Africa accused the African National Congress-led government of arming Russia.

“Since the advent of democracy nearly 30 years, South Africa has pursued an independent foreign policy.” Ramaphosa said.

He notedREAD MORE

ANC stalwart and former Ambassador to the Republic of Algeria, Billy Masetlha, has been described as a loyal servant of South Africa despite “explosive files” he held on ANC factions. 

This is according to former SA diplomat Botsang Moiloa and ANC veteran Mogomotsi Mogodiri, who have heaped praise on the former ANC national executive committee (NEC) member for his role in the party and in government. 

Masetlha, who was the former director-general of South Africa’s National Intelligence Agency, diedREAD MORE

President of the African Radical Economic Transformation Alliance (ARETA) Carl “Mpangazitha” Niehaus has accused President Cyril Ramaphosa of selling South Africa’s economy to white people, and forgetting the pain that the majority of the country went through.

Niehaus was speaking at the launch of his party’s Ward 46 branch in Jabulani, Soweto, on Sunday.  The former ANC spokesperson formed ARETA in February this year after quitting the liberation movement in the midst of several misconduct charges that were levelledREAD MORE

AN economist has dismissed claims China’s increased maize imports from South Africa are a “political posture” by the Asian powerhouse to replace the United States. Some media have made the claims after China bought 108 104 tonnes of maize from South Africa in the last week of March and the first few
weeks of April 2023.

State-owned trader, COFCO, brought the grain. Some Chinese buyers reportedly cancelled 562 800 tonnes of US corn orders in the last week of April.READ MORE

BROADBAND connections in Nigeria have increased by 16 percent year-on-year to 92 million. An increase of 2 percent has been noted month-on-month between December 2022 and January this year.

The figure implies a penetration rate of 48,2 percent, up from 47,4 percent the previous month, and 41,6 percent as at January 2022. FBN Quest Nigeria attributed the rise in broadband connections to
substantial investments made by the network operators.

The market watcher noted these investments had been motivated by theREAD MORE

REGISTRATIONS are now open for a unique annual campaign for South Africans to explore their country. Tourism businesses have been urged to register for the initiative, dubbed Sho’t Left Travel week, which has been launched in Durban at Africa’s Travel Indaba (ATI).

During her opening speech at ATI, the Minister of Tourism, Patricia de Lille has encouraged the businesses to participate. The campaign is an important part of ATI, offering South Africans a seven-day promotion of discounted travel related dealsREAD MORE