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Tuesday, March 23rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Republic of Congo’s veteran president, Denis Sassou Nguesso, has been re-elected with 88.57 percent of the vote, according to provisional results released Tuesday. Sassou Nguesso, 77, has been in power for an accumulated 36 years, first taking the helm of the central African state in 1979. His landslide first-round victory, announced […]
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Wednesday, March 17th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Tanzanian government has announced the death of President John Magufuli. His death was confirmed by the Vice-President, Samia Suluhu Hassan, in a live television broadcast on Wednesday evening. According to Hassan, President Magufuli died of heart complications at a hospital in Dar es Salaam, former capital of Tanzania. He was 61 […]
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Monday, March 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Uganda main opposition figure, Robert Ssentamu, better known as Bobi Wine has been arrested by security forces. Last week, Bobi Wine had enjoined Ugandans to “rise up peacefully and unarmed” in protest against President Yoweri Museveni, who have been in power as president for the East African country for nearly four decades. […]
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Friday, March 12th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria and 18 other African countries would benefit from World Bank’s 22.5 million dollars additional financing for the Regional Off-Grid Electricity Access Project (ROGEAP) in Western and Central Africa. The World Bank announced this in a statement issued on Friday in Washington D.C., adding that its board of Executive Directors had approved […]
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Friday, March 12th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Suspected gunmen have abducted some female students of The Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation in Mando area of Kaduna State. Police Public Relations Officer in the state, ASP Mohammed Jalige confirmed the incident. His words: “They were abducted last night; we have no details of the number of students.” He said the […]
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Thursday, March 11th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Prime Minister of Ivory Coast, Hamed Bakayoko, is dead Authorities disclosed that Bakayoko passed on in an hospital in Germany, while receiving treatment for cancer on Wednesday, just days after his 56th birthday. He was appointed prime minister in July, following the sudden death of his predecessor Amadou Gon Coulibaly. Aside […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Monday, March 8th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Mahamadou Issoufou, who is stepping down as president of coup-prone Niger after two terms in office, on Monday won Africa’s top prize for leadership. He was awarded the 2020 Mo Ibrahim Prize for facing “seemingly insurmountable challenges”, ranging from deep poverty to jihadism and desertification. Despite these enduring problems, “Issoufou has led […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Monday, March 8th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Tambuwal, has enjoined the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to review the protocol on free movement so that the influx of foreign herders into Nigeria will be curtailed. Tambuwal disclosed this on Saturday when he appeared on Television Continental Programme on Saturday saying that […]
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Sunday, March 7th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ghana is preparing to become the first Liquefied Natural Gas importer in sub-Saharan Africa, with the terminal at the port of Tema set to receive its maiden cargo in the coming weeks. LNG will add to Ghana’s own gas production and imports from Nigeria via the West African Gas Pipeline, though these […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Saturday, March 6th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Internet connectivity was restored in Niger late Friday, an AFP journalist found, after ten days of interruption following unrest over official results handing the ruling-party candidate a win in last month’s presidential elections. Neither the government nor the west African country’s four telecoms firms explained the outage, which hobbled communications and the […]
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Saturday, March 6th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The ECOWAS Court of Justice has ordered the Nigerian Government to pay over N53 million to a German national, Mr Martin Gegenheimer, for unlawful arrest and detention. The Court’s Communications Department disclosed this in a statement on Friday in Abuja, following the judgment of the court on the matter on Thursday. According […]
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Friday, March 5th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, has enjoined d youths not to copy “vagabonds”, saying that destruction won’t assist them to get to their destinations. Tinubu disclosed this during the inauguration of the Agege-Pen Cinema Bridge. He said: “To all of you youths, if you see the kind […]
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Friday, March 5th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Senegalese police clashed with supporters of opposition leader Ousmane Sonko on Thursday, leaving one person dead, a police official said — the first death in protests sparked by Sonko’s arrest the previous day. Sonko, leader of the opposition Pastef party and former presidential candidate, is considered a key potential challenger to President […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Thursday, March 4th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Enugu Zonal Office on Wednesday arraigned a fake Chevron Nigeria staff, identified as Mr. Uguru Ozoemena Justus, before Justice Phoebe Msuan Ayua of the Federal High Court, Abakaliki, Ebonyi state He was arrainged on one count Charge of obtaining money by false pretense to the […]
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Thursday, March 4th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Ghanaian’s Supreme Court has upheld the election victory of incumbent President Nana Addo Dankwa AKufo-Addo. The seven-member panel Thursday unanimously dismissed the petition filed by the Presidential candidate of the main opposition candidate, former President John Dramani Mahama of the National Democratic Congress (NDC). The court, which was presided over by […]
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Frederick Shava was sworn in as Zimbabwe’s new Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade at the State House in the capital Harare on Tuesday. Shava, who has held various portfolios in government since Zimbabwe’s independence in 1980, was appointed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa last month following the death of Sibusiso Moyo, […]
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Egypt and Sudan on Tuesday signed an agreement for military cooperation between both countries. The agreement was signed during a visit by Egypt’s army chief of staff, Mohamed Farid, to the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, a Sputnik correspondent reported. “We reached a goal regarding the national security of the two countries to build […]
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Somali President Mohamed Farmajo has called for consultative talks on March 4, with federal member state leaders to break an election deadlock and avert a constitutional crisis. Farmajo said in a statement that the day-long event would take place in Mogadishu to help finalise talks on delayed elections and findings tabled by […]
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Friday, February 26th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – WaterAid Nigeria and Heineken Africa Foundation have assisted 21 milllion Nigerians across six states in protecting themselves against COVID-19 and other infectious diseases. The support was delivered through the completion of a seven-month project that expanded hygiene access for marginalised and vulnerable communities in Bauchi, Benue, Ekiti, Enugu, Kaduna and Oyo states. […]
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Friday, February 26th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases on the African continent reached 3,869,522 as of Friday, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said. According to the continental disease control and prevention agency’s COVID-19 dashboard, the death toll related to the pandemic stood at 102,843 as of Friday. A total […]
