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Ivory Coast: Gbagbo Axed by IEC from Electoral Register

Laurent Gbagbo, the former Ivorian President, has been irrevocably removed from the electoral listing and hence, will no longer be able to present himself in the upcoming presidential elections per an Ivorian judiciary ruling that sees him still in exile. The information used to be recently verified by way of the Independent Electoral Commission with […]

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NEWS: Africa may be past the height of the pandemic virus – WHO Chief

Africa’s coronavirus outbreak may additionally have surpassed its peak, the World Health Organization (WHO) continental chief stated Tuesday, warning in opposition to complacency to keep away from a 2d wave. WHO Africa regional director Matshidiso Moeti informed a convention of African health ministers that numbers of new cases had been declining.   “We are seeing […]

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Algeria: Rally for jailed journalist

Demonstrators in Algiers are calling for international strain to assist get Algerian journalist Khaled Drareni out of jail. The journalist, who is 40, was sentenced on August twenty-fourth to three years in prison. He had been in detention seeing that March. “The profession and journalists are mobilized to demand the release of Khaled Drareni,” Amar […]

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South Africa: As schools reopen, teachers express concern

Teachers unions in South Africa expressed problem Monday as thousands and thousands of college students again to faculty after a precautionary smash in July due to the spread of the novel coronavirus in the country.     Basil Manuel, president of the National Professional Teachers’ Organization of South Africa (NAPTOSA), stated they were concerned whether the […]

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NEWS: 1100 killed in northern in Nigeria

The International Crisis Group (ICG) say communal violence has brought on the demise of some 8,000 human beings and has displaced extra than 200,000 civilians due to the fact that 2011 in Nigeria. According to Amnesty International, central and northwestern Nigerian states have been the scene of a “worrying escalation of attacks and kidnappings” for […]

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South Africa: Newborn found abandoned in bushes in Mamelodi

Just days after the provincial Health Department expressed challenge over the spate of abandoned babies, a newborn was determined in the timber in Mamelodi at the weekend. A police K9 unit, which used to be patrolling in Mamelodi, reacted to a criticism on Saturday at about 11am and determined the toddler at a park in […]

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NEWS: Sudan is ready to cooperate with the ICC on war crimes

Sudan will cooperate with the International Criminal Court’s efforts to prosecute those wanted for warfare crimes and genocide in connection with the Darfur conflict, Sudanese prime minister Abdalla Hamdok stated Saturday. Hamdok’s pledge came in the course of a televised tackle on the first anniversary of him assuming the put up of high minister. “The […]

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Nigeria: ECOWAS donates 4,000 tonnes of food items

The ECOWAS Commission has donated about 4,000 tonnes of food gadgets to the Federal Government for distribution to vulnerable households, to mitigate the outcomes of the COVID-19 pandemic. Sangare Sekou, the ECOWAS Commissioner of Agriculture, Water Resources and Environment, disclosed this at the presentation of the gadgets to the Federal Government on Saturday in Kano. […]

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NEWS: Senegal is looking to move an immense amount of ammonium nitrate

Port officials in Senegal seeks to transfer a vast quantity ammonium nitrate from its domain. Authorities in Senegal declare they had ordered the removal of 2 seven-hundred lots of ammonium nitrate from Dakar – a substance that brought on a important explosion in Beirut. Dakar’s port which is close to residential neighborhoods is stated to […]

Kenya: Kabaka pays President Uhuru Kenyatta a visit

Kabaka Mutebi has visited Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta, a improvement that further dispels allegations that he used to be dead. “President Uhuru Kenyatta these days at State House, Nairobi held talks with the Kabaka of the Buganda Kingdom, Ronald Edward Frederick Kimera Muwenda Mutebi II who paid him a visit,” a tweet from State Kenya […]

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NEWS: DR Congo’s Ebola ‘evolving in a concerned way’

Ebola outbreak in the western section of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is of grave difficulty as instances attain one hundred in much less than a hundred days, the regional director of the World Health Organization (WHO) for Africa said on Friday. In a statement, the UN health enterprise said, the outbreak has in […]

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Nigeria: Covid-19-32 States Have Molecular Labs – Govt

In an effort to curtail the Covid-19 pandemic in the country, 32 states now have molecular laboratories for the trying out of the pandemic. The revelation was once made all through a teleconference meeting held Thursday between the 36 governors of the federation. It used to be similarly published that 50 per cent of instances […]

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News: Farmers Struggle with Locust Crop Damage in Kenya

A Locust Desert Storm The Horn of Africa, fighting an unprecedented proliferation of locust crop pests for months, is dealing with an exacerbated meals scarcity hazard — with plants of farmers in Turkana county, Kenya, decimated by way of an infestation of wasteland locusts. The unwelcome presence of the barren region locusts is severely impacting […]

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Nigeria: Jihadists take hundreds hostage in northeast

Jihadists have taken lots of civilians hostage from a city in northeast Nigeria, locals and militia sources stated Wednesday. Militants from the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), an offshoot of Boko Haram, arrived in Kukawa in the Lake Chad area late on Tuesday with 22 trucks and had been locked in a conflict with […]

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NEWS: African Banks Under Pressure to speed up Digital Transformation

The spread of the Covid-19 pandemic across Africa has considered a surge in digital payments and e-commerce transactions as economic institutions scramble to provide organizations and consumers contactless methods of spending, borrowing and lending, and making payments. Cashless solutions like mobile lending and digital repayments had been already growing hastily on the continent even earlier […]

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NEWS: President of Mali resigns following military mutiny

Mali’s president announced his resignation and the dissolving of parliament early Wednesday after he was arrested by means of mutinying soldiers. “I desire no blood to be spilled to maintain me in power,” Ibrahim Boubacar Keita said in a quick address broadcast on state television. Keita additionally expressed be apologetic about for the loss of […]

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NEWS: Former President of Mauritania in Police Custody for Corruption Charges

Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz used to be taken into police custody where he is being held underneath charges of corruption in the course of his reign as the Mauritanian president. Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz used to be taken into police custody on Monday beneath allegations of corruption. The former President of the Islamic Republic of […]