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Kenya: Daniel Wanjiru Banned Until 2023

London marathon champion Daniel Wanjiru has been banned until 2023 for doping buy the World Athletic Federation (WAF), he has been caught using banned substance. A Thursday announcement sees Kenya’s walking champion Daniel Wanjiru banned from athletics for doping until 8th December 2023. The 2017 London Marathon winner was once suspended in April based totally […]

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S.Africa: outrage over calls to prayer restrictions

Two orders in South Africa restricting the Muslim call to prayer or adhan have led to outrage among local Muslims. In Pretoria, the capital, city inspectors ultimate Friday ordered a facility to stop broadcasting the adhan through loudspeakers. The cross got here barely a week after a choose in the coastal town of Durban ordered […]

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South Africa lifts COVID-19 ban on tobacco and alcohol sales

South Africa lifted its ban on alcohol and cigarette sales on Tuesday as the country eased coronavirus measures to level two. Cigarette, tobacco and alcohol sales were prohibited to prevent people from sharing cigarettes and to reduce the burden on hospitals to deal with alcohol-related injuries. South Africa is the continent’s worst affected country by […]

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Thousands of people in DR Congo capital defy protest ban

Thousands of protesters gather in the DR Congo capital Kinshasa, four days after five people were killed in banned demonstrations over the choice of a new election chief. Protesters gathered in Boulevard Lumumba, one of the city’s main avenues, marching around a vehicle carrying former warlord and opposition chief Jean-Pierre Bemba. The police broke up […]

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Sudan ratifies law banning female genital mutilation

Sudan’s ruling body ratified a law banning the widespread practice of female genital mutilation, the justice ministry announced Friday, handing the movement for women’s rights in the African country a long-sought victory. The Sovereign Council passed a set of sweeping amendments to the country’s criminal code late Thursday, including one that criminalized the deep-rooted practice. […]

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Roger Stone banned from Facebook, Instagram after controversial post

President Trump’s longtime adviser Roger Stone has been blocked on Facebook and Instagram just days after he publicly asked the commander-in-chief for clemency and petitioned a federal appeals court to put off his 40-month prison sentence, his supporters charged. “Facebook and Instagram have just disabled Roger Stone’s account in an outrageous display of censorship and […]

Ex-marathon runner, Kenya’s Kipsang banned for doping

Kenya’s world record holder Wilson Kipsang has been slapped with a four year ban from competitions after missing series of doping tests. A ruling published by the Athletics Integrity Unit on Friday states that the ex-marathon runner was found to have missed three tests. He failed to provide timely information on his whereabouts on a […]

Eritrea bans all internal, external travel

The Ministry of health in Eritrea has issued additional guidelines to all nationals & expatriates residing in the country. They have not recorded any case yet even though neighbours Sudan and Ethiopia have one and five cases respectively. Somalia also just confirmed their first case. Egypt on the other hand has been the most impacted […]

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Ethiopian Cardinal Berhaneyesus Demerew barred from entering Eritrea

The head of the Catholic Church in Ethiopia was barred from leaving the main airport in neighbouring Eritrea to attend an engagement over the weekend. The church said Cardinal Berhaneyesus Demerew had been issued with a visa, which Ethiopians now get on arrival following a 2018 peace deal. But airport officials said their orders had […]