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Tuesday, July 21st, 2020
(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 […]
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Sunday, July 19th, 2020
(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 […]
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Saturday, July 18th, 2020
(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, […]
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Friday, July 17th, 2020
(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 […]
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Friday, July 17th, 2020
(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 […]
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Wednesday, July 15th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A total of 7,021 South African police officers have tested positive to COVID-19 while 53 have passed away, the Police Minister, Bheki Cele, said on Wednesday. Cele said at a news conference, on plans to combat COVID-19 and compliance, in Pretoria that 4,949 police officers have been quarantined while 150 have been […]
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Tuesday, July 14th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Facebook on Tuesday announced that it had selected 12 African community leaders to join its accelerator programme aimed at equipping societies with training mentorship and funding needed for growth. The Facebook in a statement said that the accelerator programme would last six months. It said the programme was also aimed at bringing […]
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Monday, July 13th, 2020
By Nwa Diokpa (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The youngest daughter of Winnie and Nelson Mandela, Zindzi, is dead. She was aged 59. According to reports, she died in a hospital in Johannesburg in the early hours of Monday. South Africa’s Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Naledi Pandor, who expressed his condolence to the family, said […]
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Monday, July 13th, 2020
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Enugu state police Command has arrested one Emmanuel Opoku, a Ghanaian for pouring hot water on the chest of his breastfeeding wife at Akwuke community in Enugu state. His arrest weekend followed a petition written by a human rights and non-governmental organizations, Women’s Aid Collective, (WACOL) to the police after […]
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Sunday, July 12th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – South Africa has introduced new restrictions, including another ban on alcohol sales, to help contain the spread of coronavirus. A night-time curfew has been imposed, and the wearing of masks outdoors is now compulsory. President Cyril Ramaphosa said the alcohol ban – South Africa’s second this year – would take pressure off […]
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Sunday, July 12th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ghana’s COVID-19 cases have increased to 24,248, with 414 more infections confirmed late Saturday, according to the latest update from the Ghana Health Service (GHS). The update said the health authorities had treated and discharged 619 more people, bringing the number of recovered cases to 19,831, while the number of deaths stood […]
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Saturday, July 11th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Acting Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Libya, Stephanie Williams, on Friday met with the Speaker of Libya’s eastern-based House of Representatives (parliament), Aguila Saleh, in Geneva and discussed the need to intensify efforts to find an inclusive political solution to the Libyan crisis. “Acting SRSG Stephanie Williams met today […]
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Friday, July 10th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Rwandan police on Thursday arrested four people who had escaped from a COVID-19 treatment center in Eastern province. The quartet, who contracted the disease and were receiving treatment at the center set up at a secondary school in Ngoma district, escaped on Wednesday evening after breaking iron window bars, the Ngoma district […]
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Thursday, July 9th, 2020
By Nwa Diokpa (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Chief Justice of Ghana, Kwasi Anin-Yeboah, has gone into self-isolation according to reports and he becomes the latest high-profile personality in Ghana to do so. In a statement signed by the Judicial Secretary, Cynthia Pamela Addo, which revealed that upon the advice of his doctors, the Justice took […]
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Thursday, July 9th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A cholera outbreak has killed 12 people in the fishing village of Londji in south Cameroon, local health authorities said Wednesday. Officials also announced 62 confirmed cases out of 83 suspected ones in the village located about 15 km from the country’s seaside resort town of Kribi. South regional governor Felix Nguele […]
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Wednesday, July 8th, 2020
By Nwa Diokpa Cote d’Ivoire’s Prime Minister, Amadou Gon Coulibaly, is dead. He was aged 61. According to Ivorian Television Broadcasting (RTI), the late Prime Minister died on Wednesday. “Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly died this Wednesday, July 8, 2020 in Abidjan,” announced RTI, the leading channel on national television. It will be recalled that […]
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Wednesday, July 8th, 2020
By Nwa Dikopa (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Health minister of Ghana, Mr. Agyeman-Manu, who tested positive for coronavirus weeks ago has now recovered and resumed official duties. This was disclosed by the Deputy Health Minister, Dr. Bernard Okoe Boye, who stated that his boss recently inspected a hospital project in Accra. “Once he has been […]
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Wednesday, July 8th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Zimbabwe’s President, Emmerson Mnangagwa, has sacked Health Minister Obadiah Moyo over over COVID-19 related corruption. Mr Moyo was dismissed “with immediate effect for conduct inappropriate for a government minister”, a statement issued by the president’s chief secretary, Misheck Sibanda said. The Secretary of information Nick Mangwana tweeted the statement: Last month, Mr […]
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Tuesday, July 7th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Zimbabwe’s largest nursing union says police have arrested more than a dozen nurses and union representatives protesting against poor pay. The nurses are demanding to be paid in US dollars, saying that inflation, which is running at nearly 800%, is eroding their salaries. “At least 13 of our members and union leaders […]
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Monday, July 6th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Aide to former President John Agyekum Kufour, has rubbished claims that Ghana’s former head of state is recuperating at the University of Ghana Hospital after contracting the deadly coronavirus. Speaking to Daily Mail, Osei-Adubofour, stated that the former president and his family are healthy and not in the hospital. He said: “He […]
