Posted by Eric Ojo
African News, Latest Headlines, News, News Around Africa, North Africa
Thursday, June 24th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC), a member of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) Group, in conjunction with the International Trade Center (ITC) has launched a new initiative aimed at boosting the export capacity of women entrepreneurs in Egypt. Dubbed, “Women in Global Trade: SheTrades”, the initiative which is implemented by the […]
Posted by Daniel Jones
African News, Featured, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa
Monday, June 21st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Zimbabwe government has declared national hero status to Roman Catholic Church priest Father Emmanuel Francis Ribeiro who died last week, and the nation is to mourn him for three days. Born in 1935 in Chivhu, Fr Ribeiro died at the age of 86. Burial arrangements will be announced in due course. […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Sunday, June 20th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian Navy has arrested 10 suspected vandals conveying 210,000 litres of diesel, Automotive Gas Oil (AGO), concealed in water tanks inside a large wooden boat around the Lagos Anchorage. A statement by the Information Officer, Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) BEECROFT, Sub-Lt. Veronica Effiong, on Saturday, said the vandals were arrested on […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Sunday, June 20th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The United Arab Emirates (UAE) authorities in Dubai has announced a revision in procedures for travellers coming from South Africa and Nigeria on June 19. This is contained in a statement issued by the UAE Embassy in Abuja. According to the statement, the new rules issued by the Supreme Committee of Crisis […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Saturday, June 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus says every region has countries facing a steep increase in COVID-19 cases and deaths, with cases in Africa on rapid increase. Ghebreyesus, who spoke on Friday at COVID-19 news briefing at WHO headquarters in Geneva, expressed concerns that COVID-19 cases in Africa had increased by […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
African News, Featured, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa, South Africa, Southern Africa
Saturday, June 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – South Africa’s Tourism Minister, Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane has expressed her delight over the announcement that the annual Africa Oil Week will be hosted in Cape Town from 2022 and beyond. Africa Oil Week is the meeting place of choice for the continent’s upstream oil and gas sector. Now entering its 27th year, the […]
Posted by Daniel Jones
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Thursday, June 17th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Mnangagwa has fired with immediate effect High Court judge Justice Erica Ndewere for gross incompetence after a Tribunal Mr Mnangagwa set last year recommended that she be removed from office. The sacking of Justice Ndewere coincides with setting of another Tribunal to investigate Justice Thompson James Mabhikwa who is being charged […]
Posted by Daniel Jones
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Thursday, June 17th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Father Emmanuel Francis Ribeiro, one of the most famous Zimbabwean Roman Catholic Church priests who contributed to the country’s liberation struggle has died at the age of 86. Fr Ribeiro, a theologian, music composer, educationist, writer, media activist and nationalist, died Thursday morning, hours before Zambia’s nationalist founding father Kenneth Kaunda also […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
African News, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa, North Africa
Thursday, June 17th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Sequel to the statement issued on Wednesday by the Creditor Committee for Chad under the Common Framework for Debt Treatments, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), has ignited a flicker of hope for the West African country. Managing Director of IMF, Ms. Kristalina Georgieva has applauded the statement by the Committee’s statement, noting […]
Posted by Daniel Jones
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Wednesday, June 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Eighteen companies are to face sanctions from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) for allegedly abusing the country’s foreign exchange auction system. Dr John Mangudya, the RBZ governor on Tuesday said the companies face allegations of flouting the Statutory Instrument 127 of 2021 (SI 127) put in place to provide for penalties […]
Posted by Daniel Jones
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Wednesday, June 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Zimbabwe Miners Federation president Henrietta Rushwaya who has a pending case of attempting to smuggle 6kg of gold has been re-elected as the federation’s president for the next five years. Rushwaya (53) who was released on $100 000 bail some months back, was retained as president of the federation in elections […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Wednesday, June 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The UN World Food Programme (WFP) on Tuesday signed an agreement with South Sudan to provide meals to more than 530,000 children in the country. The meals will be provided in 1,100 schools across the ten states for a period of 19 months. Adeyinka Badejo, WFP Deputy Country Director for South Sudan, […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Monday, June 14th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Malawi President Lazarus Chakwera says he has relayed a message to South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa, condemning the “despicable behavior” of Malawian diplomats in South Africa. They were expelled for abusing diplomatic privileges. In a special address, three days after the South African government declared Malawi diplomats persona non grata and ordered […]
Posted by Daniel Jones
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Sunday, June 13th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Zimbabwe has announced new lockdown measures as the Southern African country bans all gatherings except funerals with effect from Monday 14 June following a surge in new cases and deaths. Government rolled out vaccination of citizens in February and while hope was high that new infections were being contained, the country witnessed […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Sunday, June 13th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Zambian President, Edgar Lungi, collapsed on Sunday, in the 45th Defence Force Day Commemoration and Investiture ceremony. A statement by the Principal Private Secretary to the President, Simon Miti, on Sunday, as published by Lusaka Times, confirmed the incident while disclosing that the president recovered immediately. The statement reads, “The President […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Saturday, June 12th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Many Malawian diplomats have been declared “persona non grata” by the South African government after they were found guilty of peddling duty-free alcohol. Malawi’s foreign affairs ministry in Lilongwe disclosed that South Africa had given the diplomats and their families 72 hours to evacuate the country. South Africa’s ministry of international relations […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
African News, Featured, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa
Saturday, June 12th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Many Malawian diplomats have been declared “persona non grata” by the South African government after they were found guilty of peddling duty-free alcohol. Malawi’s foreign affairs ministry in Lilongwe disclosed that South Africa had given the diplomats and their families 72 hours to evacuate the country. South Africa’s ministry of international relations […]
Posted by Daniel Jones
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Tuesday, June 8th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Zimbabwe’s justice system has been thrown into turmoil which is capable of compromising delivery of justice. The decision by President Mnangagwa last month to extend the term of office for Chief Justice Luke Malaba who had reached retired age has sparked a lot of controversy. Justice Malaba turned 70 last month, and […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Saturday, June 5th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – At least 100 people were killed in a “barbaric attack” by gunmen targeting a village in north-eastern Burkina Faso, said the West African country’s president, Roch Kabore, on Saturday. Kabore said he had ordered three days of national mourning over the attack on the village of Solhan in the conflict-ridden Sahel region. […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Friday, June 4th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A fire broke out in a state reform centre for juvenile delinquents in Cairo, leaving six children dead, a security source said on Friday. Nineteen other children were also injured in the fire that happened Thursday night in the institute located in the Cairo suburb of al-Marg, the source added. The blaze […]
