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Tuesday, November 23rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – WaterAid, an international not-for-profit organization has decried the current plight of sanitation workers around the world. In a statement to mark this year’s World Toilet Day, WaterAid said COVID-19 has exacerbated already horrendous conditions for sanitation workers across the globe, adding that they are the forgotten frontline workers in the fight against […]
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Saturday, November 20th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ethiopia on Saturday hailed the return of precious artefacts looted by British soldiers more than 150 years ago, after a long campaign for their restitution. The collection — recovered from Britain, Belgium and the Netherlands — includes a ceremonial crown, an imperial shield, a set of silver-embossed horn drinking cups, a handwritten […]
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Friday, November 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ms Michelle Bachelet, has condemned the killings of peaceful protesters against military rule in Sudan. It is “utterly shameful” that live ammunition keeps being used against protesters, Bachelet said in a statement from the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva. According […]
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Tuesday, November 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Two explosions hit Uganda’s capital Kampala on Tuesday, injuring a number of people in what police termed an attack on the city, the latest in a string of blasts targeting the country. The explosions occurred in the central business district of Kampala near the central police station and the entrance to parliament, […]
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Monday, November 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Security Minister Maxime Kone, on Monday said that within three days two terrorist attacks left 27 people dead in Burkina Faso. Kone said one civilian and 19 gendarmes were killed in an attack on a gendarmerie post in the northern province of Soum on Sunday. According to a military spokesperson, around 60 […]
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Sunday, November 14th, 2021
(AFRICAN Examiner) – The African Union’s special envoy for the Horn of Africa, Olusegun Obasanjo, remains hopeful that dialogue can end Ethiopia’s year-long war, but warned in a statement released on Sunday that “such talks cannot deliver” without an immediate ceasefire. The former Nigerian president is leading an international push to end a conflict that […]
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Sunday, November 14th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Moroccan police on Saturday seized 3.21 tonnes of cannabis near the city of Guelmim. During this operation, five people aged between 34 and 47, were arrested for their alleged links to an international drug trafficking network, said a statement by the Moroccan police. Many materials were seized, including two inflatable boats […]
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Saturday, November 13th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Kenyan anti-terrorism police officers said on Saturday they are interrogating a terror suspect who was arrested at a shopping centre in Nairobi. The Police said the suspect, identified as Ali Abdullahi Hussein, had approached a police officer on patrol at around 2.00 a.m. and wanted to seek information about a certain club. […]
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Saturday, November 13th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nine junior high school students drowned , after two canoes capsized on a river in the Northern Region of Ghana, the Police confirmed on Saturday. Bernard Baba Ananga, Northern Regional Crime Officer of the Ghana Police Service, told Xinhua that about 31 students were on the canoes, which they used to cross […]
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Saturday, November 13th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – UN peacekeeping chief, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, says fighting terrorism remains the biggest challenge in the Africa’s Lake Chad Basin as lives are lost daily to terrorist attacks. Lacroix told the UN Security Council on Friday that the situation in the Lake Chad Basin region remained highly volatile, highlighting a rising tide of extremist […]
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Saturday, November 13th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – UN Secretary-General António Guterres, has urged Libyans to forge a spirit of national unity and overcome any remaining differences ahead of landmark presidential and parliamentary elections in December. Guterres made the appeal in a video message to the Paris Conference on Libya, convened on Friday by French President Emmanuel Macron. Some 30 […]
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Friday, November 12th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A new report released by Responsible Mining Foundation (RMF) has reiterated the need for the prioritization of the prevention of harmful impacts of mining. The report noted that lack of adequate corporate measures to prevent harm is by far the most common cause of the reported incidents identified in the study, beyond […]
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Thursday, November 11th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – FW de Klerk, South Africa’s last white president, died on Thursday aged 85, his foundation announced. De Klerk and South Africa’s first black president Nelson Mandela shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 for leading the “miracle” transition from white rule in the country. He died after a battle with cancer, his […]
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Thursday, November 11th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – UN agencies has raised alarm over the growing food crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), calling for an urgent scaling-up of assistance. The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) warned that without help, widespread and unabated food insecurity could worsen in the coming months. […]
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Tuesday, November 9th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari speaking at the opening plenary of the COP-26 climate change summit in Glasgow, Scotland stated that Africa is being cheated, oppressed and lied to by rich nations. President Buhari stated that despite the continent almost being non-emitters, adding that Africa is responsible for a mere five per cent of […]
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Tuesday, November 9th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Tunisian protesters angered by an authority’s decision to reopen a controlled landfill in the southern town of Agareb set fire to a police station on Tuesday, witnesses said. The escalation of the protest came a day after the death of a man caused by asphyxiation from gas fired by the police, according […]
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Tuesday, November 9th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Mali said it regretted sanctions imposed by the West African regional bloc ECOWAS on some members of the ruling junta which staged two military coups in less than a year. Mali was rocked by coups in August 2020 and May 2021 and swathes of the vast desert nation country are not under […]
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Monday, November 8th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Economic Community of West African States “has decided to sanction all those implicated in the delay” in organising elections set for February 27 in Mali, ECOWAS Commission President Jean-Claude Kassi Brou told AFP after a summit of the 15-nation group in the Ghanaian capital Accra. He said Mali had “officially written” […]
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Monday, November 8th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gunmen seized at least two villages overnight in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo near the border with Uganda and Rwanda, a local official and an activist group said on Monday. Lt.-Col. Muhindo Luanzo, the assistant to the administrator of Rutshuru territory, blamed fighters from the M23, a rebel group that seized […]
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Monday, November 8th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President George Weah has sent his condolences to President Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone and his citizens over the fuel tanker explosion that occurred on Nov. 5, in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Weah made this known in a statement issued by Mr Jarlawah Tonpo, Liberia’s Deputy Information Minister for Press and Public […]
