(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Chadian government says it has received a donation of vaccines against coronavirus from Chinese pharmaceutical company Sinopharm. “China strongly believes that the vaccine should be a global public good. “In spite of the domestic demand, we have delivered on our promise by delivering the vaccine to more than 80 developing countries […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Hit by a fresh surge of infections and with vaccine deliveries at a near standstill, Africa is not ready to face a third wave of the pandemic, the World Health Organisation warned Thursday. “Many African hospitals and clinics are still far from ready to cope with a huge rise in critically-ill patients,” […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – UN Secretary-General António Guterres has urged authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to investigate recent deadly attacks by insurgents in the east and bring the perpetrators to account. Guterres, has strongly condemned the attacks, according to a statement issued by his Spokesperson, Stéphane Dujarric. “The Secretary-General expresses his deepest […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The demand for camel milk has gone up in Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda in the past year, amid a quest to boost immunity against COVID-19, Industry leaders said on Tuesday, as World Milk Day was observed. Bashir Warsame, founder of the Nairobi-based camel milk and camel yoghurt producer, Nuug Camel Milk, said […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Zambia has approved five COVID-19 vaccines to be administered on citizens as a preventive measure against the pandemic, a government official said on Tuesday. The vaccines include China’s Sinopharm, Johnson & Johnson, AstraZeneca Covishield, AZD 12225-Korea AstraZeneca, and Pfizer Biotech. Kennedy Malama, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health in charge of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Ugandan Minister of Works and Transport, Gen. Katumba Wamal, on Tuesday survived an assassination attempt, the local broadcaster NBS News has reported. The news outlet however said that Wamal lost his daughter and driver in the failed assassination attempt. According to the news outlet, Wamala’s car was shot in a suburb […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Zambia’s food reserve agency on Monday assured that the country was food secure and would remain so in the foreseeable future. Kelvin Hambwezya, Food Reserve Agency (FRA) Chairperson, said the 3.6 million tons of maize produced in the 2020/2021 season and the 840,000-carryover stock from the previous season meant that the country […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An ethnic group in Namibia has rejected the agreement proposed by Germany to recognise the crimes of the German colonial power more than 100 years ago in what is now Namibia as genocide. The group, called association of chiefs of the Herero and Nama ethnic groups, demanded that the planned signing ceremony […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – French President, Emmanuel Macron has publicly acknowledged France’s role in the 1994 genocide of Rwandans but stopped short of apologizing. In a statement on Thursday, May 27, following a visit to the Gisozi memorial in the Rwandan capital Kigali, Macron acknowledged France’s “overwhelming responsibility” in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and said […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Zimbabwe government on Africa Day unveiled a statue of Mbuya Nehanda, a spirit medium who fought the war of liberation against colonialists using spirit, as the country begins the process of immortalizing liberation heroes and heroines. Mbuya Nehanda was a spirit medium until her hanging during the first war of liberation in […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Centre for Transparency Advocacy (CTA), an election monitoring group, has described as worrisome the rate at which offices of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the Southeast were being destroyed. The group raised the concern in a statement by its Executive Director, Ms Faith Nwadishi, on Wednesday in Abuja. “CTA […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The long barrel of a howitzer cannon aims into scrubland around a military base in conflict-hit central Mali. After a countdown, a soldier pulls the firing lanyard, but no round shoots to the horizon. Instead an officer shouts: “BOOM!” From the shade of a nearby tree, four European Union military trainers watch […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The United States has warned that anyone who obstructs or undermines Libya’s forthcoming elections on 24 December 2021, could be subject to sanctions. Speaking on Friday evening at the UN Security Council in New York during a session dedicated to the situation in Libya, the US Permanent Representative, Linda Greenfield, affirmed that […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Spain’s defence minister on Thursday accused Morocco of engaging in “blackmail” after thousands of migrants surged into the Spanish territory of Ceuta in North Africa. “We will not accept the slightest blackmail or questioning of the territorial integrity (of Spain),” Defence Minister Margarita Robles told Spanish broadcaster RNE on Thursday. The situation […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Algeria has backed off a decision to reopen land borders closed because of the coronavirus pandemic. But it will go ahead with a plan to partially resume international flights from next month, the presidency said on Tuesday. The North African country had said on Sunday it would reopen land and air borders […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ethiopian election officials announced on Saturday that it had postponed the planned June 5 election indefinitely. The move came amid the widespread security and logistical challenges the country is facing. Birutkan Mideksa, chairwoman of the National Electoral Board of Ethiopia, confirmed the change of date in a press statement: “The vote will […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – United Airlines on Saturday relaunched its passenger flight operation from Washington, D.C. to Accra, the capital of Ghana, after a hiatus of about a decade. A speech read on behalf of the Minister of Transport Kweku Ofori Asiamah at a news conference held at the forecourt of the Kotoka International Airport commended […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The World Bank says remittance inflows to Nigeria declined by 28 per cent in 2020 because of COVID-19 pandemic. The Bank also said remittance flows fell for Sub-Saharan Africa by 12.5 per cent, according to its Migration and Development Brief 33 Phase 11 entitled: “COVID-19 Crisis Through a Migration Lens’’ published on […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has arrived in Kampala, Uganda, to represent Nigeria at the inauguration of re-elected Ugandan President, Yoweri Museveni. The event, which comes up on Wednesday at the Independence Grounds in Kampala, will be Museveni’s sixth inauguration as a democratically-elected leader. Museveni was declared winner of the January 14, 2021, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – At least 15 people were killed in a landslide at a gold mine in the West African nation of Guinea, according to officials. The Tatakourou mine collapsed on Saturday, killing the miners instantly, said Sekou Biniou Simagan, a local councillor. On Sunday, rescuers were still digging through the rubbles, searching for survivors. […]
