Posted by Daniel Jones
African News, Featured, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa
Wednesday, September 16th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER)-Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa chose his 78th birthday to lift ban on inter-city travel and extend business operating hours from the 8am-4.30pm range to 6am-6.30pm range, as the Southern African country slowly reopens in the wake of Covid-19 lockdown. President Mnangagwa turned 78 on Tuesday. The lifting of ban on intercity travel is meant […]
Posted by African Examiner
African News, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa, North Africa
Tuesday, September 15th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Two dozen migrants are missing or dead after their rubber dinghy capsized off the Libyan coast, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) reported on Tuesday. “Most of them are believed to be Egyptian nationals,’’ IOM spokeswoman Safa Msehli, told dpa from Geneva. Msehli said while two bodies had been recovered from the […]
Posted by Daniel Jones
African News, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa, South Africa, Southern Africa
Monday, September 14th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER)-South Africa’s African National Congress (ANC) delegation that visited Zimbabwe recently to meet Zanu-PF leadership has torched a storm on either side of the Limpopo River for failing to broker “peace” in Zimbabwe and violating Covid-19 protocols. ANC secretary-general Elias Sekgobelo (Ace) Magashula led a six-member delegation comprising the party’s National Executive members Gwede […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
African News, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa
Monday, September 14th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ahead of this year’s Africa’s Land Forum, stakeholders in the agriculture, development and other related sectors have reiterated the need to promote the ideals of land governance in the continent. The 2020 Africa Land Forum which is scheduled to hold from 15th to 17th of September, provides another opportunity for stakeholders to […]
Posted by Daniel Jones
African News, Featured, Latest Headlines, News, News Around Africa
Monday, September 14th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Zimbabwe has approached scientists in South Africa, United Kingdom and United States after its local laboratories failed to establish the actual cause of death of elephants in the country’s biggest national park. More than 20 jumbos have died in Pandamasue Forest near Victoria Falls since last month and the cause remains a […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Thursday, September 10th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), has confirmed 176 new cases of the Coronavirus (COVID-19 ) bringing the nation’s total infections to 55,632. The NCDC made this known on its official twitter handle on Wednesday. It said that 176 new confirmed cases and 3 deaths were recorded in the country on […]
Posted by African Examiner
African News, East/Central Africa, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa
Thursday, September 10th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – At least three persons were killed and seven others injured in a suicide car bombing in Somali capital Mogadishu on Wednesday, a government official confirmed. Ismael Mukhtar Omar, government spokesman, said a suicide bomber, who blew himself up, targeted Blue Sky restaurant in central Mogadishu. “Three people were killed and seven others […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
African News, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa, Uncategorized
Thursday, September 10th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Key players and stakeholders in Africa’s Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) have called for more selective investment, accelerated business acquisitions and increased cooperation to help the continent feed itself and the world. A panel of some of Africa’s most promising and emerging SME agripreneurs made the call on Wednesday at a virtual […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
African News, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa, Uncategorized, West Africa
Thursday, September 10th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) - The African Development Bank (AfDB) on Wednesday approved $27.33 million in grants to boost the African Union’s (AU) efforts to mobilize a continental response to curb the COVID-19 pandemic. The bank’s Board of Directors approval of the grants is sequel to a meeting of the extended Bureau of the Conference of Heads […]
Posted by Daniel Jones
African News, Featured, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa, South Africa, Southern Africa
Tuesday, September 8th, 2020
Photo: Zimbabwe’s Minister for Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services, Monica Mutsvangwa (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Under fire Zimbabwean government was forced to make a U-turn and to annul special mining grants it had issued to some Chinese companies within the country’s biggest national park. Shocked citizens mostly comprising hoteliers, wildlife activists, environmentalists and traditional leaders immediately […]
Posted by Daniel Jones
African News, Featured, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa
Tuesday, September 8th, 2020
By Daniel Jones, Harare (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A few days after re-opening the tourism industry and allowing activities to resume, Zimbabwe government has given green light to domestic and international flights to recommence. Travelers will however be required to produce Covid-19 test certificates as flights resume this Thursday. Airlines cancelled flights in March when most […]
Posted by African Examiner
African News, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa, North Africa
Monday, September 7th, 2020
Photo: Egyptian Tourism and Antiquities Minister Khaled al-Anany (C) and Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) Mostafa Waziri (R) look at a 2,500-year-old coffin discovered in Giza, Egypt, on Sept. 6, 2020. (Xinhua photo) (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Egypt has announced the discovery of a collection of more than 13 intact sealed coffins, dating […]
Posted by Daniel Jones
African News, Featured, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa, South Africa, Southern Africa
Monday, September 7th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER)-South Africa’s ruling ANC Secretary General Ace Magashule is expected to lead a 10-member delegation to meet Zimbabwe’s Zanu-PF counterparts on Tuesday. The meeting is expected to discuss among other issues, the crisis in Zimbabwe although President Mnangagwa and his government have remained in denial saying there is no crisis in the country. However, […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
African News, Featured, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa, North Africa
Friday, September 4th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As the search for safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines gather momentum, African countries are signing up to a new initiative, which aims to secure at least 220 million doses of the vaccine for the continent, once licensed and approved. All 54 countries on the continent have expressed interest in COVAX, a global […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
African News, Featured, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa
Thursday, September 3rd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) -A global pharmaceutical company, Novartis and the African Union (AU) through the Africa Medical Supplies Platform (AMSP) have announced a new collaboration to facilitate the supply of medicines from the Novartis Pandemic Response Portfolio to the AU member states and Caricom countries. The collaboration aims to help alleviate supply and logistical constraints in […]
Posted by African Examiner
African News, East/Central Africa, Featured, Latest Headlines, News, News Around Africa
Thursday, September 3rd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Mozambique has banned the importation of cultured fish from neighbouring Malawi, following the outbreak of a lethal disease in fish reared in captivity in Malawi. The decision was announced in Maputo by the Minister of Sea, Interior Waters and Fisheries, Augusta Maita, the country’s largest newspaper, Noticias, reported on Wednesday. Authorities, mainly […]
Posted by Daniel Jones
African News, Featured, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa
Thursday, September 3rd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) -The Zimbabwean government has re-opened the tourism industry ending a five-months closure as a result of the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. The country’s tourism minister recently said the sector has taken a painful nosedive as a result of the pandemic with arrivals expected to falls from around 2.5 million per annum recorded […]
Posted by Daniel Jones
African News, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) The Zimbabwe High Court has granted bail to opposition leader and top journalist who have been languishing in remand prison for over a month. Transform Zimbabwe leader Jacob Ngarivhume was released on Z$50 000 bail and immediately barred from using his Twitter handle @JacobNgarivhume which the State alleges he was using to incite […]
Posted by Daniel Jones
African News, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa, South Africa, Southern Africa
Tuesday, September 1st, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER)-South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa has given in to pressure from his country and “suffering” Zimbabweans to intervene in the neighbouring nation’s simmering human rights crisis as he is expected to send a delegation to engage both Zanu-PF and other stakeholders. This comes as the country is facing a possible new wave of demonstrations […]
Posted by Daniel Jones
African News, Featured, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa
Tuesday, September 1st, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Zimbabwe government plans to repossess black owned land and give it back to former white farmers who were once dispossessed through the chaotic land reform 20 years ago during the late President Robert Mugabe era. Just in July, President Mnangagwa signed a US$3.5 billion Global Compensation Deed to compensate white farmers who […]
