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Politics: Voters take part in ‘illegal’ election in Ethiopia’s Tigray region

Ageing war veterans and university students joined long pre-dawn lines in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region to vote Wednesday in parliamentary elections that Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government has deemed illegal. Polls opened at 6am (0300 GMT) across the mountainous northern Tigray region despite a federal decision to postpone all elections because of the coronavirus pandemic. […]

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Ethiopia: PM hails growing COVID-19 testing capacity in the country

The Ethiopian Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, commended the country’s growing COVID-19 checking out capability as the quantity of demonstrated instances reached 59,648 as of Monday. Ethiopia’s proven COVID-19 cases reached 59,648 after 976 new cases were registered on Monday, the country’s Ministry of Health said. The ministry said in a statement that 15 extra patients […]

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Uganda: 13 health workers test positive for COVID-19

Uganda’s Ministry of Health on Tuesday suggested 124 new conformed COVID-19 instances taking the East African nation’s caseload to 3,900. 13 of the instances have been fitness people accounting for 10.5 percent of all the new cases. Apac District in the northern area of Uganda accounted for most of these instances (three) accompanied by means of Lira […]

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NEWS: Jihadist Timbuktu Police Chief Tried by ICC for War Crimes

Malian jihadist police chief, Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz Ag Mohamed Ag Mahmoud, 42, tried on Tuesday with the aid of the International Criminal Court (ICC) for not possible struggle crimes committed against humanity — together with direct and personal involvement with sexual slavery, severe corporal punishment, dismembering and torture when the place used to […]

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Business: Economy Down by 51% in 2nd Quarter in South Africa

South Africa’s economy, the most industrialised in Africa, collapsed by using 51% between April and June in light of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the country’s information agency. An unheard of decline in GDP used to be anticipated as the countrywide lockdown on March 27th imposed to curb the unfold of the new coronavirus, noticed […]

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Sports: Nigeria’s Darlington Igwekali pens 4-year deal with new club

Nigerian defender Darlington Emmanuel Igwekali has penned a 4-year deal with UAE pinnacle division side Ajman Club. The 20-year-old who had stints with Olimpik Donetsk in Ukraine and Alanyaspor of Turkey is already searching ahead to a new task with the Asian side. “I consider signing with Ajman Club will assist me in creating my […]

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Entertainment: “You need a wife like my own” – Burna Boy flaunts the diamond chain his lover got for him

Popular Nigerian singer, Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulu, popularly known as Burna Boy has shown off the diamond chain his “wife” Stefflon Don got for him. Sharing the video via his Instagram page, Burna Boy showered praises on his lover, and urged his followers to get a lover like Stefflon Don. Shortly after flaunting the jewellery for […]

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NEWS: Egypt, China sign protocol on Chinese teaching in Egyptian schools

Egypt and China signed on Monday a cooperation protocol to teach the Chinese language in pre-university faculties in Egypt as a 2nd non-compulsory foreign language. The protocol was once signed by means of the Egyptian Minister of Education Tarek Shawki and the Chinese Ambassador to Cairo Liao Liqiang. “Egypt is keen to advantage from the […]

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Breaking: Egypt tries plasma treatment to fight pandemic

The treatment of the new coronavirus with plasma brings of hopevto Egypt where there is an estimated 100,000 cases and more than 5,000 deaths. The 25-year-old land surveyor from Cairo caught the disease in May, on the eve of the Muslim Eid al-Fitr festival, becoming one of the almost 100,000 reported cases in Egypt, where […]

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Education: Morocco imposed a lockdown and shut its schools

Morocco imposed a lockdown on Casablanca and shut its schools Monday, the day they were supposed to reopen after summer, in a bid to stop the spread of Covid-19. The new measures, which include restrictions on movement and a night-time curfew, would be in place for two weeks in the commercial capital, the authorities said […]

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Uganda converts national stadium into an auxiliary hospital as COVID-19 cases rise

In the light of the fast-growing COVID-19 incidents, Ugandan health ministry has transformed parts of Namboole National Stadium to into an auxiliary hospital to cater for the rapidly increasing numbers. The health ministry opened a treatment center situated in Wakiso ‘s central Ugandan province, about 15 km east of Kampala, the capital. The facility begins […]

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Business: African Bank signs a R8bn aid deal with shareholders

African Bank stated on Monday that it had entered into an R8 billion help arrangement with its shareholders to re-enter the South African wholesale funding market. The bank, which is a one hundred percentage subsidiary of African Bank Holdings Limited (ABHL), said the support amenities would be supplied over a length of three years and […]

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Sudan’s flood death toll increases to 102

Sudan said on Monday that the demise toll from the country’s floods caused by using heavy seasonal rains has risen to 102. The floods have completely submerged the village of Eltomaniat, north of Khartoum, Col. Abdul-Jaleel Abdul-Rahim, a spokesman for the National Council for Civil Defense, instructed KnowAfrika. According to neighborhood media, the village, which […]

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NEWS: ECOWAS gives Mali’s military junta until Sept. 15 deadline to hand over power

The Authority of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has asked the military junta in Mali to appoint a civilian transition head by using 15 September, a little over one week from today, the AFP reports. The development comes following the 57th Ordinary Session of the Authority […]

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Sports: Sheyi Ojo delighted after joining Cardiff City

Super Eagles goal Sheyi Ojo delighted after joining Cardiff City on season-long from Liverpool. The 23-year-old Nigerian descent he performed 36 games Steven Gerrard’s Rangers ultimate season. Ojo will be his sixth mortgage spell for the reason that shifting to Anfield from MK Dons in 2011 as he instructed Cardiff official website saying: “I’ve obtained a factor […]

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Entertainment: “My daughter too fine, no worry” – Teddy A and BamBam show off their daughter, Zendaya

His wife, Bamike also shared photos of Zendaya, and fans have been showering praises on the little baby since the photos surfaced. Teddy A and BamBam, who met and began their relationship on Big Brother Naija ‘Double Wahala’ in 2018, first announced their engagement on August 4, 2019. On the 7th of September, 2019 the […]

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NEWS: Northern Cameroon Under Flood

Over 1,500 households in Northern Cameroon have been displaced as overwhelming floods – from heavy rainfall in the town of Maroua the remaining few days, have destroyed their homes, washed away cattle and devastated plantations. The established embankment alongside the Logone River has additionally given out and even bridges have collapsed, leaving the inhabitants despondent. […]

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Oil industry lobbying to dump plastics in Kenya

The oil industry has asked the United States to pressure Kenya to change its world-leading stance against the plastic waste that litters Africa, according to environmentalists who fear the continent will be used as a dumping ground. The request from the American Chemistry Council, whose members include major oil companies, to the Office of the […]