This archive report was first published on 5 December 2019.
Published on December 5, 2019, South Africa Airways has been placed under a state-led rescue to prevent it from collapsing.
The government will provide the airline with 2 billion rand ($136 million), with lenders lending an additional 2 billion rand.
Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan stated that the funds are intended to facilitate a radical restructuring of the airline, which has lost over $2 billion since 2006.
Meanwhile, in northern Nigeria, authorities have suspended a bride-price levy imposed by a village chief following a public outcry.
Residents of Kera village in Kano state complained that the 137,000 naira ($375) levy, to be paid by the groom to the bride's family, had prevented marriages.
Maigida Adamu, the chairman of the local government authority for the area, said the chief imposed the levy unilaterally and a committee is reviewing his actions.
Additionally, Moroccan police have disrupted an Islamic State group cell and arrested four suspects in a joint operation with Spain.
The anti-terror police said the head of the group was arrested in the Spanish capital Madrid, while its three members were detained in Morocco's northern Nador region in a simultaneous raid.
It was reported that the suspects, aged between 24 and 39, organized meetings to plan terrorist operations in response to repeated calls from IS leaders.
Separately, a Moroccan YouTuber, Mohamed Sekkaki, appeared in court for 'insulting Moroccans and constitutional institutions' in a video.
The kingdom's public prosecutor said he was detained on Sunday after publishing a video in which he criticized King Mohammed VI, considered 'inviolable' by the kingdom's constitution.
