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Friday, February 26th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The ECOWAS Court of Justice has dismissed the application of a third-party applicant, representing 6,500 parties seeking inclusion to benefit from a N50 billion consent judgment of the court. The court had awarded a consent judgement on the matter in 2017, ordering N50 billion as compensation to the victims of remnants of […]
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Thursday, February 25th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Zimbabwe’s Vice President Kembo Mohadi who is caught in a storm of having office sex with various married women, has claimed he is an innocent victim of well-choreographed attempts to destroy his political career. Mohadi was elevated by President Mnangagwa into the country’s number two position in 2017 after the military coup […]
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Friday, February 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Zimbabwe kick-started the Covid-19 vaccination programme after receiving a donation of 200 000 shots of the Sinopharm vaccine from China. Vice President Costantino Chiwenga who is also Health Minister volunteered to be the first citizen to be jabbed. Zimbabwe hopes to vaccinate about 10 million citizens using donated doses from China as […]
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Wednesday, February 17th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The UN humanitarian agency on Wednesday condemned a recent violent attack on aid workers delivering polio vaccines to South Sudan’s Lakes state. Alain Noudehou, UN Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Humanitarian Coordinator, said the attack that took place on Feb. 14 at Malek in Lakes state, claimed three lives and […]
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Monday, February 8th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) says a new case of the Ebola virus has emerged just a few months after the outbreak was declared to have ended in the Central African country. The ministry of health disclosed this on Sunday saying that a patient who has since died contracted the virus […]
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Friday, February 5th, 2021
(African Examiner) – Zimbabwe expects to receive about 200,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccine from China, but Health Minister and his Finance counterpart have clashed on the roll-out plan. The seeming confusion on the roll-out plan has seen Finance Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube and Health Minister Costantino Chiwenga who is also Vice President issuing conflicting statements […]
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Wednesday, February 3rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for urgent steps to address the humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia’s Tigray region. A statement by his office on Tuesday evening said Guterres remained “seriously concerned” over the situation in the war-hit region. The statement said he attached strong importance to the partnership between the Ethiopian government […]
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Monday, February 1st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and former Minister of Information and Culture Prince Tony Momoh is dead. Prince Momoh, a veteran journalist, served as a Nigerian minister during the military regime of General Ibrahim Babangida between 1986 and 1990. He was among the founders of the ruling APC. Prince […]
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Monday, February 1st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Ugandan main opposition leader, Bobi Wine Monday filed a suit at the country’s Supreme Court, challenging in last month’s poll. Wine party’s – National Unity Platform (NUP) lawyer, George Musisi, said his client was seeking cancellation of the results of January Presidential election in which the incumbent, Yoweri Museveni was declared as […]
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Friday, January 29th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A second new variants of COVID-19 has emerged in African as new cases of deaths is recorded as more contangious variants is spreading to other countries says Dr Matshidiso Moeti of World Health Organization(WHO) Regional Director for African in Brazzaville Moetti, disclosed this in a virtual press conference, said over 175,000 new […]
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Tuesday, January 26th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – At least nine people were reported killed after tropical cyclone Eloise hit Africa’s east coast at the weekend with wind gusts of up to 160 kilometres per hour and heavy rain. The majority of the deaths were reported in worst-hit Mozambican port city of Beira, according to authorities – most of them […]
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Tuesday, January 26th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, says Federal Government is exploring all options to ensure the vaccination of 70 per cent of Nigeria population in two years. Ehanire made this known on Monday at the national briefing of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 in Abuja. According to him, Nigeria is exploring all options […]
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Sunday, January 24th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has advocated for the restructuring of ECOWAS, saying that the organization needed to streamline its management to adjust to current realities. ”A situation where ECOWAS has 23 statutory appointees, of which 13 are Commissioners for this Commission is totally unsustainable”, the president said in his presentation to the virtual […]
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Saturday, January 23rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian Diaspora Movement (NDM) on Saturday expressed optimism that Africa could benefit significantly from the new administration in the U.S. led by President Joe Biden. Chairman of NDM, Prof. Apollos Nwauwa expressed the optimism in a telephone interview in Abuja. The NDM has nearly 20 million Nigerians in the diaspora as […]
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Thursday, January 21st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Namibia mobile provider, MTC’s plans to have 100 per cent network coverage throughout the country under the 081Every1 project had been dealt with a blow due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A company executive said on Thursday that 081Every1 which is a 104-million-U.S.-dollar project officially launched in July 2017 with the aim of […]
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Wednesday, January 20th, 2021
(AFRICA EXAMINER) — Zimbabwe’s Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister Sibusisio Moyo, who became popular for announcing the November 2017 coup that removed the late President Robert paving way for incumbent Emerson Mnangagwa has died from Covid-19, government has confirmed. He was 61 years old. Moyo, known as SB, becomes the latest top government official […]
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Tuesday, January 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Presidential candidate of the National Unity Platform (NUP), Robert Ssentamu, aka Bobi Wine, says he and his family have run out of food items to sustain themselves. The musician turned politician disclosed this on Tuesday saying that he has been placed under house arrest for six days. According to him, the soldiers […]
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Tuesday, January 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gov. Dapo Abiodun of Ogun on Tuesday banned fuel tankers and other articulated vehicles from plying flyover bridges in the state. Abiodun announced this decision during his assessment visit to the scene of tanker explosion, which occurred on Monday in Abeokuta, claiming three lives with many others injured. The News Agency of […]
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Tuesday, January 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Zimbabwe Health ministry on Monday reported 60 deaths due to Covid-19 as the country battles the worst wave of the pandemic which has killed 773 since the first case was detected in March last year. New cases and deaths have tripled to 27 892 and 773 from about 8 000 and […]
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Tuesday, January 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa has officially signed the Africa Fact Book whose objective is to dispel myths and western perceptions about the African continent, paving way for the document to be circulated among all 54 Heads of State in the continent. Mnangagwa on Monday morning signed the Fact Book which is published […]
