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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 […]
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Monday, November 8th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Liberian government has announced a total of $15,000 cash reward for any useful information for the arrest of perpetrators of recent high-profile murders in Monrovia. Mr Ledgerhood Rennie, Liberia’s Minister of Information and Culture disclosed this in a statement. According to Rennie, the Liberia National Police has named Christian Anderson and […]
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Sunday, November 7th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) with the support of the Robert Bosch Foundation is deploying €25,000 grant for local landscape restoration and conservation projects in the Sahel region of West Africa. The project which are located in Bawku (Ghana), Ibadan (Nigeria), Nkambe and Yaoundé (Cameroon), and Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso), are part of GLF’s […]
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Sunday, November 7th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Nepali peacekeeper serving in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has been named the recipient of the UN Woman Police Officer of the Year Award. Superintendent Sangya Malla serving with the UN mission in the country, MONUSCO, is Chief of its Police Health and Environment Unit, based in the capital, […]
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Saturday, November 6th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Angolan private bank, Banco de Fomento Angola (BFA) on Saturday signed a financial agreement with a non-governmental organisation (NGO) worth 30 million Kwanzas ($50,000) to combat malaria. Anya Fedorova, Population Services International Angola representative, who spoke to the press said her organisation’s co-funding agreement with BFA was aimed at helping in fighting […]
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Saturday, November 6th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – At least 99 people were killed and more than 100 injured in the capital of Sierra Leone late on Friday when a fuel tanker exploded following a collision, local authorities said. The accident occurred in a busy street in the capital Freetown. According to eyewitnesses, “many people rushed to the tanker to […]
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Tuesday, November 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Britain said it had requested that the UN Human Rights Council convene an emergency session on Sudan following last week’s military coup. The request was sent to the president of the 47-member Geneva forum on behalf of 18 member states, more than the one-third required to convene a special session. It was […]
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Tuesday, November 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – More than 500 Sierra Leoneans aged 16-35 gathered in the northern town of Magburaka for the country’s first national conference for the youth. The two-day event, with the theme of “Harnessing the Future of Sierra Leone through Investments in Youth”, is being held to set the pace for the youth to brainstorm […]
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Sunday, October 31st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Security forces shot dead three people during nationwide protests in Sudan on Saturday, a doctors committee said, as hundreds of thousands of people demanded the restoration of a civilian-led government after a military coup. In Khartoum, security forces used tear gas and gunfire to try to disperse a huge crowd after protesters […]
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Saturday, October 30th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, has urged the military to show restraint and not to create any more victims as mass civil protests against the military coup planned for Saturday in Sudan. Guterres made the appeal while speaking to journalists in Rome on Friday, ahead of the weekend’s G20 Summit in the Italian […]
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Wednesday, October 27th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Liberia President, Charles Taylor, has sued the Liberian government concerning its ‘refusal’ to pay his pension and retirement benefits, according to a court statement. African Examiner recalls that Taylor was involved in a 13-year civil war in Liberia after he led a rebellion in 1989 to remove President Samuel Doe, which […]
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Wednesday, October 27th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The African Union said Wednesday it had suspended Sudan until civilian rule in the country is restored, saying it rejected the military takeover as an “unconstitutional” seizure of power. The continent-wide bloc said it “strongly condemns the seizure of power” and was suspending Sudan from all AU activities “until the effective restoration […]
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Wednesday, October 27th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – World Bank has granted Kenya 16.7 billion shillings (about 150 million dollars) to support the country’s climate action plan, the National Treasury said Wednesday. The Treasury said the money would be used to strengthen local resilience to the impact of climate change through a 10-year programme dubbed financially locally-led climate action starting […]
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Wednesday, October 27th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – More than 100 people have died and 200 others have been injured in several days of fighting between government troops and Islamists in the East African country of Somalia. The District Commissioner, Anas Abdi told dpa on Wednesday that around 100,000 people have fled the city of Guriel, also known as Guriceel, […]
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Tuesday, October 26th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Roads were blocked, shops were shut, phones were down, and mosque loudspeakers blared calls for a general strike in Sudan on Tuesday, a day after the army seized power in a coup. At least seven people were killed in unrest triggered by the military takeover, which brought a halt to Sudan’s transition […]
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Monday, October 25th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Sudan’s military seized power in a coup on Monday, while youths opposed to the takeover barricaded streets and gunfire was heard as demonstrators clashed with the security forces. The military dissolved a transitional government that had been set up to guide the country to democracy following the overthrow of long-ruling autocrat Omar […]
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Friday, October 22nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – South Africa’s ex-president Jacob Zuma on Thursday made his first public appearance since his release from prison on medical parole last month to lay charges against a chief state prosecutor. Zuma walked into a police station in the eastern city of Pietermaritzburg, where he is on trial for corruption, to open a […]
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Thursday, October 21st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Zambia’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has arrested 14 former and current government officials over graft offenses. ACC said in a statement on Thursday, that the 14 arrested include a former Southern province Permanent Secretary, Sibanze Simuchoba. It stated that the permanent secretary and two other officials were arrested for failure to follow applicable […]
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Wednesday, October 20th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As Uganda continues to receive Coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine donations, the World Health Organisation (WHO) representative said donors needed to support the distribution of the vaccines to remote areas. Yonas Tegegn Woldemariam, WHO representative to Uganda, told reporters that developing countries need support to ensure that vaccines reach everyone including those in remote […]
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Wednesday, October 20th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) on Tuesday said it was alarmed by the humanitarian impact of the worst flooding in decades in South Sudan, as it affected more than 700,000 people across the country. Stéphane Dujarric, spokesman for the UN Secretary-General, disclosed this at a news conference at the UN headquarters in […]
