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NEWS: Ousmane Kaba Declares His Run as Guinean Presidential Candidate

New Candidate or Third Term? Ousmane Kaba, was declared on Saturday as the first opposition leader to run in the Guinean presidential elections in October. The candidate currently leads the Party of Democrats for Hope (Pades), created in 2017, has a stronghold of the Rally of the Guinean People party – with popularity in mostly […]

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Nigeria: Lagos eases coronavirus lockdown, reopening Places of worship

The governor of Nigeria’s commercial capital Lagos stated on Saturday churches and mosques would reopen subsequent week as the authorities move to ease the lockdown over the coronavirus pandemic. “Places of worship in Lagos will now be opened from Friday, the seventh of August for our Muslim worshippers, and on Sunday, the 9th of August […]

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Uganda: Man, 48, arrested over infecting five minors with HIV /Aids

Police in Masaka District in central Uganda are holding a 48 -year -old man for allegedly defiling underage female who he later infected with HIV/Aids.  The suspect is a chippie in Masaka Town and is a resident of Bwabikere Village, Kalagala Parish in Mukungwe Sub County in Masaka City. It is alleged that he has […]

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Uganda: Muntu blast EC, Clergy over ‘silence amidst turbulences’

“The silence of the Electoral Commission (EC) and the clergy amidst a looming crisis is deafening,” Alliance for National Transformation (ANT) President Flag bearer, Gen Mugisha Muntu has said. Gen Muntu used to be on Thursday addressing a press conference at the celebration headquarters at Plot 87, Buganda Road, Kampala. He accused the electoral body […]

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Coronavirus: Kenya turns a stadium in a makeshift hospital

Hospital body of workers gears up, for some other day treating COVID 19 patients. These past few days the quantity of coronavirus contaminations have spiked in Kenya, accomplishing as an awful lot as 960 contaminations for July twenty sixth alone. Alcohol sale was banned and a curfew used to be extended in order to end the […]

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Nigeria: Bandits kill 13 members of the family, and one more in Kogi

Fourteen people, such as thirteen participants of the same household had been killed in an early morning attack via suspected bandits on Wednesday in Agudu, in the Kogi/Kotonkarfe Local Government Area of Kogi State. The kingdom Commissioner of Police, Ede Ayuba, while briefing journalists on the things to do of the command, said “the thirteen […]

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NEWS: Tanzania bids former President Benjamin Mkapa farewell

Thousands of Tanzanians attended the funeral mass to honour the former President Benjamin Mkapa, who handed away early Friday at age 81, after struggling from malaria and a coronary heart attack. Alongside his family, many political figures of the East African country, such as modern-day President John Magufuli. The president of Tanzania spoke at Mkapa’s […]

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Kenya: Man kills wife in Gilgil

A domestic feud ended on a bitter notice after a man stabbed and killed his wife in Gilgil town earlier than surrendering himself to the police. The Tuesday morning incident took place in Gilgil sub-county clinic personnel quarters where two minors died on Monday night time after they were poisoned through unknown persons. In the […]

NEWS: West Africa blocks calls for reconciliation in Mali, warns of sanctions

West African leaders on Monday referred to as for the swift advent of a cohesion government in Mali and a fresh vote after disputed elections, but warned of sanctions towards these opposing efforts to cease the country’s crisis. In a announcement issued after a video conference, heads of the 15-nation regional bloc ECOWAS stood by way of […]

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South Africa: 17 cops lose everything as fire destroys police barracks

Donations are pouring in for 17 Lusikisiki police officers who had been left with nothing but the clothes on their backs after a fireplace destroyed the Hlababomvu police station’s barracks this month. Touched by means of the plight of the men in blue, local agencies replied with donations ranging from blankets, food, electrical appliances, furnishings […]

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NEWS: Former president of Tanzania Benjamin Mkapa suffered from malaria, not Covid-19 -family

Former Tanzanian president Benjamin Mkapa was suffering from malaria and died of a heart attack, his family said Sunday, scotching rumours that he succumbed to coronavirus. “Mkapa was found with malaria and he was admitted for treatment since Wednesday,” family member William Erio revealed during a funeral mass broadcast on state television TBC1. Mkapa, who […]

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NEWS: Morocco shuts down major cities after surge in Covid-19 cases

Morocco will quit people entering and leaving some of its biggest cities from nighttime to incorporate a surge in COVID-19 cases, the indoors and fitness Ministries stated on Sunday. The cities to be locked down include the monetary powerhouse of Casablanca as properly as Tangier, Marrakech, Fez and Meknes. The u . s . eased […]

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NEWS: Covid-19 treatment center opens in Madagascar

Madagascar has launched a new coronavirus treatment center amid rising infections and hospitals being overwhelmed, the president said on Sunday. In a series of tweets, Andre Rajoelina said the Mahamasina treatment center in the capital Antananarivo can accommodate 250 COVID-19 patients with severe symptoms. “In these difficult times, I call on the nation to show […]

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Tunisia: President Kais Saied Names Hicham Mechichi as PM Designate

Tunisia’s President Kais Saied picked his former felony adviser to shape a new government, nation news organisation TAP reported. The 46-year old Hichem Mechichi held the indoors ministry in the outgoing government of Elyes Fakhfakh. Fakhfakh resigned last week after almost 1/2 of parliament’s lawmakers filed a no-confidence action in his rule amid a showdown with a average […]

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NEWS: Parliament Approves Draft Law On Sustainability of Finances in Angola

The National Assembly (AN) approved, in general, this Friday, the Proposed Law on Sustainability of Public Finances, with one hundred thirty votes in favor, no towards and forty two abstentions. The draft Law provides for the advent in Parliament of the Public Accounts Committee, a mechanism that is phase of the strengthening of the effectiveness […]

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NEWS: Islamic group in Nigeria reacts to Buhari’s decision to probe Magu

The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has reacted to the probe of alleged corrupt practices in the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, and the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, describing these probes as affirmation of the genuineness of the combat in opposition to corruption embarked upon by means of the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari. […]

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African summit ends with no deal on Mali political crisis

West African leaders ended a day-long summit in Mali on Thursday without a deal to soothe the country’s escalating political crisis. Five of the region’s leaders met Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita and leaders of a protest movement clamouring for his resignation, as a long-running jihadist insurgency threatens to throw the country into chaos. But […]

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NEWS: Former President of Tanzania Mkapa is dead

Tanzania’s former President Benjamin William Mkapa, 81, is dead, President John Magufuli has announced. Mkapa died on Friday at a Tanzanian hospital. In a statement, Magufuli advised Tanzanians to stay calm. “It is with a heavy heart that we have obtained the information of Mkapa’s passing,” he said. Mkapa led Tanzania from 1995 to 2005 […]