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Making headlines: KZN ANC, alliance partners to host energy summit, super-infectious bird flu strain emerges in Mpumalanga and, Sierra Leone's President Bio leads presidential election

KZN ANC, alliance partners to host energy summit

The ANC in KwaZulu-Natal, along with its alliance partners, the South African Communist Party and the Congress of South African Trade Unions, have agreed on the need for an Alliance Energy Summit to help solve the ongoing power cuts affecting the province’s economic gains.

The partnership which calls itself the ‘political alliance council’ said an energy strategy that would ensure energy security would be developed by the organisations.

ANC provincial secretary Bheki Mtolo said the Alliance Energy Summit, which would be coordinated by the Richards Bay Industrial Development Zone, would be championed by KwaZulu-Natal Economic Development, Tourism & Environmental Affairs MEC Siboniso Duma, on behalf of the ANC government.

Super-infectious bird flu strain emerges in Mpumalanga

South Africa's top poultry body has confirmed two Mpumalanga farms experienced an outbreak of the highly infectious H7 avian flu strain.

This strain is different from the H5N1 one that wiped out more than a million birds in the Western Cape the past few months.

Although the third outbreak of avian flu in three months was contained, the South African Poultry Association, which has over 100 members, said today it was concerned because all of the local flareups experienced this year had been spread by wild birds. This made it more difficult to control.

Sierra Leone's President Bio leads presidential election

Sierra Leone President Julius Maada Bio is leading the presidential election count, the West African country's electoral commission said after 60% of votes have been counted.

59 year old Bio is running for a second term against 12 opponents.

His biggest rival is All People's Congress' candidate Samura Kamara, who narrowly lost to Bio in the last election in 2018.

A provisional results sheet showed Bio had received over 1-million votes so far, compared with just under 800 000 for Kamara.

The election commission on Sunday outlined several instances where officials were beaten or intimidated.

That’s a roundup of news making headlines today

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