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Education: Makerere ranked 5th best African university

Makerere University is Africa’s fifth-best university and the high-quality in East Africa, in accordance to the cutting-edge World University rankings by means of Times Higher Education. The ranking places Makerere together with Mansoura University in Egypt, the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and the Durban University of Technology in South Africa, among others in the same […]

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Breaking: Former Rwandan minister outlines her mission towards food systems – UN

Agnes Kalibata, the former Rwandan Minister for Agriculture, has been tasked with leading the first-ever UN Food Systems Summit. In an interview with UN News, she outlined her imaginative and prescient for a modified international device that is greater resilient, fairer, and much less unsafe to the planet. Food structures involve all the degrees that […]

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Niger: Army accused of executing over 70 civilians, probe says

Soldiers in Niger performed dozens of civilians for the duration of the counterinsurgency marketing campaign towards jihadists in the past this year, a probe has reported. Niger has suffered years of battle with Islamic militants working in the Sahel, with lots of troopers and civilians killed to date. “There have indeed been executions of unarmed […]

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Business: Unilever to get rid of the fossil fuel cleaning goods by 2030

When a company units a aim to reach zero emissions inside decades, it has to begin cutting carbon on each and every possible front. For Unilever, that skill spending $1.2 billion (R19.89 billion) to assist its suppliers undertake technologies to cast off the use of fossil fuels in the manufacturing of cleaning merchandise by way […]

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Four countries at risk of famine – United Nations

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that there is a danger of famine and tremendous meals insecurity in four international locations affected through conflict — Congo, Yemen, northeast Nigeria, and South Sudan. In a notice to Security Council contributors acquired through The Associated Press on Friday, the U.N. chief said the 4 nations rank “among the […]

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The World: Kosovo, Serbia agree to economic normalization – United States

Balkan neighbors Serbia and Kosovo have reached a historical milestone, agreeing to normalize their monetary ties, US President Donald Trump introduced Friday.  Addressing journalists in the Oval Office alongside Kosovar Prime Minister Avdullah Hoti and Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, Trump stated the financial pact would serve as a springboard for in addition cooperation, describing the […]

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Entertainment: Don Jazzy, D’Banj inspired me to go into music – Davido

Nigerian singer and label record owner, David Adedeji Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, has revealed that Mavin Records boss, Don Jazzy and D’banj inspired him to go into music. The star who is also a father of three children made this known in a recent Instagram Live chat with Grammy Museum. According to him, “Coming […]

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NEWS: Mozambique to lift state of emergency

Mozambique will lift the state of emergency to the unfold of coronavirus this weekend, President Filipe Nyusi announced in a tv address on Friday. Nyusi said the kingdom of emergency would stop Sunday night time as infections have no longer improved tons compared to neighbouring nations in the region. “We are proud of the measures […]

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Breaking: Mali’s junta starts talks on return to civilian rule

Mali’s military junta began talks on its promised transition to civilian rule on Saturday after mounting pressure from neighbours since it overthrew the nation’s leader in a coup. President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita was detained on August 18 after his seven-year rule. Opposition protests by the June 5 Movement urged he stepped down after endemic corruption […]

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Street artists fight COVID-19 with art in Rwanda

Street artists in Rwanda are painting the walls in bright colours with an important health message: to stay safe during the coronavirus pandemic. Armed with paints and spray cans, every morning artist Jimmy Rolland decorates walls with his murals. “My painting is one ways we can stop COVID-19, showing one of the way to stop […]

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Zimbabweans Remember Mugabe 1 Year After His Passing

A long queue of downcast Zimbabweans stretches out in Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe as inhabitants await their turn to receive their daily food handout. This way of life was not what many envisioned after the late former president Robert Mugabe was forced to resign from his position in 2017 after 37 years in power. A Chitungwiza resident, […]

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DR Congo: Police Clash Violently with Protesters

Violence broke out in Kinshasa on Friday, near the Supreme Court of the Democratic Republic of Congo, as police subdued a rally of protesters demanding the immediate expulsion of new Rwandan ambassador, Vincent Karega. They are accusing the ambassador of being a records revisionist claiming he has denied Rwanda’s role in the numerous massacres of […]

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Health: Uganda is renewing the campaign to end malaria by 2030.

Uganda says it is fast-tracking efforts to put off malaria, which continues to take lives and bleed the country’s financial system extra than any different disease. The sickness is accountable for 30 to 40 percentage of outpatient health facility visits, 15 to 20 percentage of admissions, and 10 percentage of inpatient deaths, normally pregnant moms […]

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Ten soldiers murdered In central Mali attack

At least 10 Malian soldiers have been killed in an overnight ambush in a central area close to the Mauritania border the place armed terrorists are rampant, safety and neighborhood sources stated on Friday. 10 soldiers had been killed, along with a senior officer, in the attack in Guire and 4 automobiles had been torched, […]

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The World: Spain breaks record for highest infections in a single day

Spain’s Health Ministry proven 10,476 new coronavirus infections on Friday — the easiest single-day leap because the pandemic began. The preceding each day file was once set ultimate Friday, with simply under 9,800 new infections in a day. Although the usa is reporting extra instances now than in the worst days of spring, checking out […]

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Business: WorldRemit to acquire Sendwave, a remittance company with a focus on Africa

Digital, international cross-border payments company WorldRemit introduced it has agreed to collect Sendwave, a rapidly growing app-based remittance organisation in a cash and stock transaction that is expected to close, concern to licensing and regulatory approvals, in Q4 2020. Founded in 2014, Sendwave has constructed a main and swiftly growing digital remittance provider to East […]

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Wilfred Ndidi returns back to Leicester City’s training

Super Eagles star Wilfred Ndidi has again returned to Leicester City’s coaching after visiting Nigeria. The 23-year-old midfielder neglected the Foxes pre-season games against Birmingham City and Sheffield United. Ndidi was pictured in coaching with Kelechi Iheanacho and  Leicester City teammates after his self-isolation upon his return to England from Nigeria The former Genk superstar has been linked […]

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Entertainment: “If I should date Ebuka, I wouldn’t leave him or allow him leave me” – Cee-C

Former big brother Naija housemate, Cynthia Nwadiora popularly known as Ceec-c has debunked rumours that she is media personality, Ebuka Obi-Uchendu’s ex-girlfriend Reacting to a tweet saying she is Ebuka’s ex, Cee-C revealed that if she should date Ebuka, she wouldn’t leave him or allow him leave her. She also stated that people should be […]

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Malawi: Adolescent pregnancies increase in the coronavirus pandemic

Eliza Majuri is 17 years old and one of the thousands of young adults in Malawi who has fallen pregnant all through the coronavirus pandemic. According to Oxfam, the town of Phalombe on my own has registered 2,784 instances of teen pregnancies and 800 child marriages because March when colleges closed. Eliza stated she was […]