(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – At least 13 people were killed and 51 others injured in a traffic accident in Gezira State in central Sudan on Friday. “The accident took place when a commodity transport truck collided with a mini passenger bus at Al-danagla area of the Gezira State in central Sudan,’’ the press office of Sudanese […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Zimbabwe’s security forces on Thursday cleared people off streets of the capital Harare and forced shops to close, a day before planned anti-government protests during the worst economic crisis in more than a decade. President Emmerson Mnangagwa has struggled to keep his promise to revive the economy, with many Zimbabweans complaining they […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Zambia on Tuesday launched an emergency COVID-19 social cash transfer scheme to help vulnerable communities affected by the pandemic. Kampamba Mulenga, Minister of Community Development, said this during a news briefing in Lusaka. The minister said that the emergency social cash transfer would help mitigate the impact of the pandemic in vulnerable […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Gambia’s President, Adama Barrow, has gone into self-isolation after his vice-president tested positive for coronavirus. President Barrow will isolate for two weeks. A statement from the country’s State House said Vice-President Isatou Touray had tested positive for the virus. Ms Touray said she was in “good spirits and will be going […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – South Sudan authority on Tuesday said at least 28 people had been killed and 10 children abducted during ethnic clashes in the country. The country’s acting Commissioner, Mabior Mawut, told DBA in a telephone interview that about 19 others were injured when heavily armed men from the Murle ethnic group attacked members […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Uganda’s Police on Sunday arrested over 100 partygoers for flouting COVID-19 lockdown restriction measures, authorities said on Monday. The police and military officers arrested the offenders at the La Venti Lounge and Kitchen, about 12 km northeast of the capital Kampala, Patrick Onyango, Kampala Metropolitan Police spokesperson, told Xinhua on Monday. “Bars […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER – ) President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday joined other sub-regional leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in an extra-ordinary virtual meeting to mitigate the political crisis in Mali. The meeting was summoned in line with the outcome of Thursday’s meeting of the ECOWAS leaders in Bamako, Mali. The Chairman […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has ordered flags to fly at half-mast for three days starting on Saturday to mourn former Tanzanian President Benjamin Mkapa. “When he became President of Tanzania, we worked together to consolidate the East African Community (EAC). “It is a great loss for Africa,’’ Museveni tweeted. The EAC is […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Fourteen lawmakers and 11 members of staff at the Zambian parliament have tested positive for COVID-19, an official said on Friday. This is coming, days after the assembly suspended sittings because a lawmaker had died of the respiratory disease. Speaking during a COVID-19 update, the Health Minister, Chitalu Chilufya, said none of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former President of Tanzania Benjamin Mkapa has died, the presidency announced on Friday. “Mkapa, 81, died in hospital in the city of Dar es Salaam, where he was being treated for an illness,’’ incumbent President John Magufuli said in a statement without giving details. African Union Commission chair Moussa Mahamat tweeted his […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nurses under the umbrella of University Graduates of Nursing Science Association (UGONSA) have raised alarm on the continued incarceration of their members over the alleged murder of former Head of Nursing Services, Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital (FNHE), Enugu, Dr. Mrs. Maria Amadi. The body noted with dismay that “despite […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok on Wednesday appointed 18 civilian governors for the states, including two women for the first time. “Appointment of civilian governors for the states constitutes a completion for the structures of the transitional period,’’ said Hamdok at a press conference in the capital Khartoum. According to a prime […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari is billed to depart Abuja for Bamako, Mali, Thursday. Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, disclosed this in a statement issued in Abuja and made available to journalists. The statement reads: “President Muhammadu Buhari will Thursday depart for Bamako, Republic of Mali on a […]
By Nwa Diokpa President of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni, is seeking re-election and this would make him to rule the East African country for four decades. Museveni’s party stated on Tuesday that the 75-year-old freedom fighter has collected papers seeking nomination as the ruling party’s candidate in next year’s presidential election. “Yes, we can confirm he […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday held a closed door meeting with his predecessor, Goodluck Jonathan at the State House, Abuja. The agenda of the meeting was not immediately known, (as at the time of filing this report). However, it was learnt that the former President’s visit was meant to update Buhari on his […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – South Africa’s minister of mineral resources and energy Gwede Mantashe has been admitted to hospital days after testing positive for Covid-19, the government has announced. His wife, Nolwandle Mantashe, will continue to self-quarantine at home. The couple tested positive for Covid-19 on Tuesday last week. In a statement, the government said the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Tanzania’s anti-narcotics Police said on Saturday they seized 379 kilogrammes of cannabis. Emmanuel Lukula, the Kilimanjaro Regional Police Commander, said the cannabis was seized at Holili town at the border between Tanzania and Kenya. He said Police were also holding, for interrogation, the driver of a pick-up vehicle that was used to […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Rwanda Investigations Bureau (RIB) has paraded, through the streets, 57 suspected rebels recently arrested in the jungles of the neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The suspects, captured by the DRC military, were accused of terrorism and formation of armed groups to destabilise Rwanda, acting spokesperson of RIB, Dominique Bahorera, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Mali’s Prime Minister has apologised for “excesses” by security forces who opened fire recently on anti-government protesters, but rejected opposition demands that President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita resign. Recently, the latest in a series of mass protests in the capital, Bamako, against Keita, turned violent, with security forces firing on protesters, some of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Zindzi Mandela, South Africa’s Ambassador to Denmark and daughter of Nelson and Winnie Mandela, was laid to rest next to her mother’s burial place at Fourways Memorial Park in Johannesburg North on Friday. Zindzi’s son Zondwa said his mother’s legacy will live on. “My mother was clear that it is important to […]
