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Monday, March 7th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Libyan oil needs to flow again following a shutdown at two oilfields by gangs, UN’s top official for the country demanded on Monday. “I am following with concern, reports of closure of oilfields and suspension of some civilian flights,’’ the secretary general’s special adviser on Libya, Stephanie Williams, wrote on Twitter. “Blocking […]
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Saturday, March 5th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A court in Tanzania on Friday, ordered the release of opposition leader Freeman Mbowe after the prosecution dropped charges, including of terrorism, against him. The Chadema Party leader was arrested in July 2021 shortly before a party conference at which reforms were to be discussed. After Mbowe was arrested, politicians, religious leaders […]
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Wednesday, March 2nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The petrol situation in Lagos lengthened queues at filling stations on Wednesday, with resultant traffic snarl-ups noticed in parts of the state. African Examiner reports that black market sellers also took advantage of the fuel scarcity, offering petrol in jerry-cans by roadsides, to willing buyers. Such situation was noticed on the popular […]
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Tuesday, February 22nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – UN Secretary General António Guterres has cancelled his trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) due to worsening situation in Ukraine, according to his spokesman, Mr Stéphane Dujarric. Dujarric in a note to UN correspondents on Monday stated that “In light of the deteriorating situation regarding Ukraine, the secretary-general is […]
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Monday, February 21st, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A total of 11,104,160 COVID-19 cases were reported in Africa as of Saturday evening, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said. The specialised healthcare agency of the African Union said the COVID-19 death toll across the continent stands at 246,584, while 10,254,788 patients have recovered from the disease […]
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Sunday, February 20th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kenya has confirmed the death of the High Commissioner of Kenya to Nigeria, Ambassador Wilfred Machage. According to a statement on the Ministry’s website, Machage collapsed at his Abuja residence on Saturday and was rushed to the hospital, where he passed on at 12.30 p.m. “Machage […]
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Tuesday, February 15th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Local authorities on Tuesday reported that militants armed with guns and machetes killed at least 15 people and injured four in an early morning raid on a village in Congo’s eastern Ituri province. Sector chief Innocent Matukadala said attackers stormed the village of Syeri Aberkozo just before dawn, hacking residents with machetes […]
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Thursday, February 10th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Libyan Prime Minister, Abdulhamid al-Dbeibah’s on Thursday escaped an assassination attempt when assailants struck his car with bullets. A source close to him said he escaped unharmed amid intense factional wrangling over control of the government. The source said the incident happened as Dbeibah was returning home, describing it as a clear […]
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Tuesday, February 8th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – At least five people on Tuesday sustained injuries when a cargo plane crashed while landing at Agok Airstrip in the Abyei Administrative Area disputed between the border of Sudan and South Sudan. Kuol Diem Kuol, Chief Administrator of Abyei Administrative Area, told Xinhua that the Antonov 26 plane, owned by the Ministry […]
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Sunday, February 6th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday received a comprehensive report on the coup attempt to remove President Umaru Sissoco Embalo of Guinea-Bissau. African Examiner reports that the attempted coup was, however, not successful as it was aborted by loyalist forces. The Nigerian leader was briefed on the sidelines of the African Union Summit […]
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Saturday, February 5th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, says Africa is “a source of hope” for the world, highlighting the examples of the African Continental Free Trade Area and the decade of financial and economic inclusion for African women. Guterres also said that in the last 20 years, the African Union (AU) “has helped to […]
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Saturday, February 5th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – After a relentless digging operation, rescuers in northern Morocco on Saturday retrieved the body of a 5-year-old boy who had been trapped deep inside a well for five days, the country’s state news agency MAP said. The child, named Rayan, was officially declared dead shortly after his extraction from the well, according […]
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Tuesday, February 1st, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – On Tuesday, repeated gunshots were heard near the presidential palace in Bissau, the capital city of Guinea-Bissau. As of the time of filing this report, it is not yet clear those responsible for the gunfire, as soldiers are said to have surrounded the building where President Umaro Sissoco Embaló is reportedly presiding […]
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Monday, January 31st, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Six people died on Monday when a minibus was destroyed by a roadside bomb during an ambush by armed men in northeastern Kenya near the border with Somalia, police have said. The assailants opened fire on the 14-seater vehicle after it ran over the explosive device about eight kilometres (five miles) from […]
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Friday, January 28th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The West African bloc ECOWAS on Friday suspended Burkina Faso following a coup, but will not impose other sanctions for the time being, a participant at a virtual summit said. ECOWAS is also calling for the new junta to release ousted president Roch Marc Christian Kabore and other officials detained during Monday’s […]
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Wednesday, January 26th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Burkina Faso military yesterday undertook to propose a “timetable” for the country’s return to constitutional order “within a reasonable period of time and after consultation with the active forces of the nation”. Shortly before midnight on Monday, Roch Kabore resigned from the presidency of Burkina Faso through a letter addressed to […]
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Monday, January 24th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Soldiers have arrested Burkina Faso’s President, Roch Marc Christian Kabore. On Monday, mutinous soldiers announced that the government of Kabore did not support them in a deadly insurgency. According to available information, heavy gunfire was heard Sunday night near Kabore’s official residence, Ouagadougou, the state capital Also, armored vehicles in the president’s […]
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Saturday, January 22nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Three teachers, the headmaster and a deputy head were kidnapped from a Cameroonian high school by armed men in one of two English-speaking regions plagued by an armed conflict between separatists and soldiers, a teachers’ union told AFP on Friday. “An armed group burst into the Weh bilingual high school on Tuesday […]
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Sunday, January 16th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Mali has said it will seek to overturn in international courts what Bamako calls “illegal sanctions” imposed by a West African economic bloc over delays to the country’s elections. “These measures are illegal under several international conventions” including those which “prohibit sanctions against landlocked countries” like Mali, interim Prime Minister Choguel Kokalla […]
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Friday, January 14th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Troops and armed men have exchanged fire in the Cameroonian city of Buea, leaving several injured in the capital of a region hit by separatist violence and a host for teams in the Africa Cup of Nations, the local mayor said Thursday. “The security forces rapidly intervened and an investigation is under […]
