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Tuesday, December 21st, 2021
(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 […]
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Saturday, December 18th, 2021
(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 […]
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Thursday, December 16th, 2021
(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 […]
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Tuesday, December 14th, 2021
(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 […]
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Monday, December 13th, 2021
(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 […]
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Friday, December 10th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ghana will from Monday vaccinate returning citizens and residents against COVID-19 upon arrival at the airport, if they have not received shots. Ghana’s Health Service Director-General, Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, made the disclosure in a statement on Friday, amid concerns over low take-up of vaccination. He said that all Ghanaians leaving the country would […]
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Wednesday, December 8th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The U.S. Treasury Department has imposed financial sanctions on Uganda’s chief of military intelligence, Major General Abel Kandiho, over alleged human rights abuses committed under his watch. Uganda’s military said it was disappointed by the decision and would seek clarification from Washington, for whom Kampala has been a security partner against militancy […]
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Tuesday, December 7th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Thousands of The Gambian citizens have taken to the streets in protest after the December 4 presidential election result. The election, contested by six candidates, was won by the incumbent president, Adama Barrow. Mr Barrow, who contested the election under the flagship of the National People’s Party (NPP), polled 457, 519 votes […]
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Monday, December 6th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Kingsley Moghalu, has said African countries including Nigeria and South Africa should issue reciprocal travel restrictions on the United Kingdom, and other Western nations that have placed Nigeria on red list due to the Omicron COVID-19 variant. Reacting, Moghalu wrote, “Nigeria and […]
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Monday, December 6th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The United States “strongly condemns” a militant attack on a bus in central Mali that killed at least 31 people and wounded 17, the State Department said on Sunday. Unidentified gunmen on Friday opened fire on the bus as it traveled from the village of Songho to a market in Bandiagara, 6 […]
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Saturday, December 4th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – With many African countries struggling from the shackles of debt servicing amid the downward economic trend occasioned by COVID-19, a ‘New Deal’ worth 7.1 trillion dollars has been suggested as the only solution. This was the position of Mr Antonio Pedro, Deputy Executive Secretary, Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) at the ongoing […]
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Friday, December 3rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Senegal’s transport unions went on open-ended strike Friday over alleged police harassment and illicit competition, paralysing the capital Dakar and other regions. Many people were unable to go to work or send their children to school in the capital without buses or taxis to take them, AFP journalists and witnesses said. Patients […]
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Thursday, December 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The African Union’s health watchdog on Thursday appealed for calm over Omicron, the new, heavily mutated Covid-19 variant which has prompted many governments to impose new restrictions. The new variant was first reported to the World Health Organization by South Africa a week ago and has quickly shown up across continents, deepening […]
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Wednesday, December 1st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) prevalence rate of infection in Somalia has been dropping over the last 14 years, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Wednesday. Citing periodic surveys conducted, the WHO warned that in spite of the general decline in HIV prevalence across Somalia, there were locations such as Garowe and […]
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Wednesday, December 1st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Tanzanian tourism authorities has said that they were at the final preparations to start a process of introducing cable car on Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest mountain. Mary Masanja, the Deputy Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism, said the process to introduce the cable car was on the mountain is on track and […]
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Tuesday, November 30th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The South African rand retreated early on Tuesday as caution lingered in markets after the discovery of a Coronavirus (COVID-19) variant that is spreading in the country and globally. At 0625 GMT, the rand traded at 16.2150 against the dollar, 0.46 per cent weaker than its previous close. On Friday the currency […]
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Monday, November 29th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Botswana said on Monday that travel bans imposed against southern African countries over the presence of the new Omicron variant of COVID-19 hurt Botswana’s tourism sector. Minister of Environment, Natural Resources Conservation and Tourism, Philda Kereng, said the ban came just as the country prepared for its summer vacation season. “The restrictions […]
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Monday, November 29th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Rwanda has temporarily suspended direct flights to southern African countries due to concerns over the new COVID-19 variant, Omicron. This was contained in cabinet communique issued by the office of the prime minister on Monday. The decision was taken after an extraordinary cabinet meeting on Rwanda’s response to the Omicron variant chaired […]
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Sunday, November 28th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Mauritius will suspend all commercial passenger flights from South Africa from Nov. 28 due to the new coronavirus variant Omicron, its foreign affairs ministry said on Saturday. A ministry statement also said any passengers who have been physically present in South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho, Botswana, Eswatini, and Zimbabwe will be denied entry […]
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Saturday, November 27th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – South Africa said on Saturday it was being punished for its advanced ability to detect new Coronavirus (COVID-19) variants early. South Africa’s Ministry of International Relations and Cooperation said this in a statement. The allegation is coming as travel bans and restrictions imposed because of the new Omicron variant threaten to harm […]
