(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A gunfight broke out near the Mali football team’s base in Cameroon, forcing them to cancel their final training session ahead of their AFCON match with Tunisia. Two people are reported to have been killed in a gunfight between government forces and separatists in the African nation. The western region of Cameroon […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Education Cannot Wait (ECW), the United Nations (UN) global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises, has announced US$17.7 million grant to support access to quality life-sustaining education programmes for displaced, conflict-affected and vulnerable children and adolescents in Sudan. Before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, an estimated 4.3 million children were out […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has resolved to withdraw all its ambassadors from Mali and close land and air borders between member-countries and Mali. This resolution was conveyed in a communiqué issued after an Extraordinary Summit of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government in Accra, Ghana. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – African Development Bank (AfDB) Group has approved a $47.09 million grant for the first phase of the Pemba-Lichinga Integrated Development Corridor, a Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zone in Mozambique. Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zones (SAPZs) are integrated development initiatives designed to concentrate agro-processing activities within areas of high agricultural potential to boost productivity, integrate […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – At least six villagers were killed on Monday in an attack by al-Shabab militants at a village in Kenya’s coastal county of Lamu, local officials said. Lamu County Commissioner, Irungu Macharia, said that the attackers, believed to have crossed over from neighbouring Somalia, also torched several houses in the attack there. “The […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Danish government has provided a $30.1 million grant for the African Water Facility for climate-smart water and sanitation services in four drought-prone countries in the continent. The African Water Facility which is tagged, “Improving access to climate-resilient safe water supply and sanitation services in the Sahel and Horn of Africa programme”, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Education Cannot Wait (ECW), the United Nations (UN) global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises, announced yesterday $12 million catalytic grant to fund the roll out of the first Multi-Year Resilience Programme in Burundi. This seed funding grant is coming as a response to interconnected crises that have left 1.9 […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ahead of the plan to set up vaccine manufacturing plant in Rwanda, the German Government is currently training of specialists for the take- off of the project aimed at using BioTech’s messenger RNA technology. Currently, only 1 percent of the COVID-19 vaccines administered in Africa are produced in the continent but the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – International Monetary Fund (IMF) has harped on the need for the Government of Cameroon to include an annex dedicated to gender budgeting in the country’s 2022 annual budget. The IMF said the West African nation should prioritize and develop a strategy for financial inclusion, adding that the need for steady progress on […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has sympathized with President Cyril Ramaphosa, South Africans and the global Christian body, particularly Anglican Communion, concerning the death of Archbishop Emeritus, Desmond Tutu. President Buhari’s condolence message was contained in a statement issued by his Spokesman, Mr Femi Adesina, in Abuja on Boxing Day. African Examiner had earlier […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – South African anti-apartheid icon, Desmond Tutu, died on Sunday aged 90. South Africa’s president, President Cyril Ramaphosa, announced the Archbishop’s death on Sunday. Ramaphosa said, “The passing of Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu is another chapter of bereavement in our nation’s farewell to a generation of outstanding South Africans who have bequeathed us […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Germany, France, Britain and other members of the international community have chided the government of Mali for recruiting Russian mercenaries in the protracted armed conflict in the West African nation. Mali has experienced sustained political instability, with three military coups since 2012. A military transitional government took power in May this year. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Tunisian court has issued a verdict in absentia sentencing former president Moncef Marzouki to four years in prison after he criticised President Kais Saied and called for protests. The court found against Marzouki on charges of “assaulting the external security of the state”, according to the state news agency TAP. Marzouki, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A protest started at the Assemblies of God Church, Jesus Power parish, Ashanti-West Region, Ghana because of the dismissal of seven leaders of the local assembly. The Regional Superintendent, Stephen Yaw Manu, stated that the crisis started over the appointment of a new presiding pastor for the parish. The dismissed members include […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Libya’s parliament said Friday’s planned presidential election would not go ahead, leaving the internationally-backed peace process in chaos and the fate of the interim government in doubt. The electoral commission proposed pushing back the voting date by a month, confirming a delay that had been widely expected amid ongoing disputes over the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The UN’s Humanitarian Coordinator in South Sudan, Matthew Hollingworth, has strongly condemned the killing of a UN-contracted aid worker that also left another injured, after the convoy they were travelling in came under attack. Hollingworth, in a statement on Monday, said the World Food Programme (WFP) convoy had been deliberately targeted. Armed […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Education Cannot Wait (ECW), the United Nations (UN) global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises has announced US$11.1 million grant aimed at financing a new multi-year educational programme in Libya. ECW supports quality education outcomes for refugee, internally displaced and other crisis-affected girls and boys, so no one is left […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) officially declared Thursday the end of the 13th Ebola outbreak, which killed six people in its northeastern province of North Kivu. Since the beginning of the epidemic declared on Oct. 8, 2021, a total of 11 cases have been recorded, including six deaths in the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Namibia’s President Hage Geingob on Tuesday said that the rate of COVID-19 infections due to the Omicron variant had sky rocked. He said this was signaling that the southwestern African nation was now in the fourth COVID-19 wave. Geingob said this on the 38th occasion of the COVID-19 public briefing on national […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Judge of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, Justice Stella Anukam has reiterated the need for the Nigerian Government to ensure that citizens and Non- Governmental Organisations (NGOs) have direct access to the African Court. Justice Anukam said Nigeria should activate Article 34(6) of the Protocol to the African Charter […]
