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Thursday, September 26th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Kenyan on Wednesday emphasised the urgent need to unlock the vast opportunities presented by the digital economy for African countries, highlighting its potential to create jobs and enhance service delivery. Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua urged Africa to leverage its demographic dividend and implement smart policies to achieve a digital and resilient future. […]
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Tuesday, September 24th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – ) Kouassi Adjoumani, Ivorian Minister of Agriculture, Rural Development and Food Production has strongly encouraged national and international investors to invest in the cashew sector in Cote d’Ivoire. The minister made the remarks at the opening of the investment forum for the cashew industry, in Abidjan. He emphasised that the annual production […]
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Sunday, September 22nd, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Maj.-Gen. Richard Gyane, the Commandant, Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC), Accra, Ghana, says the ECOWAS sub-region is now the global epicentre of violent extremism and terrorism (VET). Gyane stated this during the closing ceremony of a training course for Defence and Security Sector Actors (DSSA) on violent extremism and terrorism, […]
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Friday, September 20th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), has released a report on how debt crisis is jeopardising progress aimed at ending AIDS in Sub-Saharan African countries. According to UNAIDS, Sub-Saharan African countries account for a significant majority of people living with HIV globally – 25.9 million people of the nearly 40 […]
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Friday, September 13th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – South African politician Pravin Gordhan, who served as finance minister twice, overhauled the tax service and waged a battle against corruption under a former president, died on Friday from cancer aged 75, his family said. Gordhan is also remembered for his efforts in fighting what South Africans called “state capture” by private […]
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Friday, September 13th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Germany and Kenya are set to sign a migration agreement on Friday during a visit by Kenyan President William Samoei Ruto to Berlin. The deal is intended to promote the recruitment of skilled labour from Kenya and facilitate the repatriation of Kenyans without the right to stay in Germany back to the […]
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Monday, September 9th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Forestry and WildLife in Borno Ministry of Environment says a herd of elephants that allegedly strayed from the neighbouring Cameroon has invaded and destroyed some community farmlands in the state. A Director in the ministry, Mr Ayuba Peter, confirmed the ugly incident in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria […]
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Sunday, September 8th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Algeria’s incumbent President, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, has been re-elected with almost 95 per cent of the vote, the country’s electoral authority ANIE said Sunday. “Out of 5,630,000 voters recorded, 5,320,000 voted for the independent candidate Abdelmadjid Tebboune, accounting for 94.65 per cent of the vote,” ANIE head Mohamed Charfi told reporters in the […]
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Saturday, September 7th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – ) Tunisian presidential candidate Ayachi Zammel was still in detention on Friday in spite of being released for a few hours a day earlier, his campaign team said. Zammel is one of three candidates approved by Tunisia’s electoral commission to run in a presidential election on Oct. 6 which opposition critics say […]
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Friday, September 6th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – No less than 17 pupils were killed after a fire razed down Hillside Endarasha Academy, a boarding primary school in Kenya’s Nyeri county. The fire started late Thursday night and it injured over 14 people. There are speculations that the death toll could increase as more than a dozen have been taken […]
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Friday, August 30th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Paul Kagame of Rwanda has dismissed over 200 military personnel from the Rwanda Defense Force (RDF), including 21 senior and junior officers, the military announced in a statement on Friday. Among those dismissed were Martin Nzaramba and Etienne Uwimana, alongside 19 other senior and junior officers, according to the statement issued […]
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Thursday, August 29th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – ) Ten foreigners were killed when a bus they were traveling in overturned in South Africa’s Limpopo Province Tuesday night, local authorities said Wednesday. The bus was en route to Johannesburg from neighboring Zimbabwe when the accident happened on the N1 highway near Makhado, the Limpopo Provincial Department of Transport and Community […]
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Saturday, August 24th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government says no fewer than 21,600 students are parading fake certificates obtained from degree mills institutions in Benin Republic, Togo and others. The Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, disclosed this during a ministerial press briefing on his one year achievements in the ministry, in Abuja on Friday. According to […]
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Saturday, August 24th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The United States government on Friday said that it was not planning the establishment of any military base in Nigeria. Maj.-Gen. Kenneth Ekman, U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), West Africa Coordination Element Lead, Department of Defence, made this known during a media roundtable with select journalists in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria […]
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Saturday, August 17th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A payment processing platform, eTranzact, has emerged as Africa’s Most Innovative Payment Services Company of the Year 2024 at the African Brands Innovators Forum Adeyemi Opene, Head, Brand and Corporate Communications, eTranzact Plc, said this in a statement on Saturday in Lagos. Opene said that the award elevated the firm, which is […]
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Saturday, August 10th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu has said the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), would continue to persuade the military leaders of Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso to return their nations to the fold. Tinubu, who is the Chairman of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government, reaffirmed this position at […]
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Friday, August 9th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The African continent is poised to declare a Public Health Emergency of Continental Security (PHECS) as the Mpox (Monkeypox) outbreak continues to spread across many countries. Dr Jean Kaseya, Director General of Africa Centre for Disease Control (CDC), said this during a webinar on Thursday on the Mpox outbreak situation in the […]
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Wednesday, July 31st, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The UN Security Council on Tuesday lifted a territorial arms embargo on the Central African Republic that was put in place in 2013 after civil war broke out, but which the country’s foreign minister said was now “unjust.” The unanimously adopted resolution scrubbed the sanctions that were already watered-down last year when […]
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Tuesday, July 30th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Seventeen human skulls buried in metal boxes have been unearthed at a suspected shrine in the centre of Uganda, police told AFP on Tuesday. Children foraging for firewood outside Kabanga village near Mpigi town, about 40 kilometres (24 miles) west of the capital Kampala, made the grisly discovery on Monday, according to […]
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Monday, July 22nd, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Opposition leader Bobi Wine said heavily armed security forces were besieging his party headquarters on Monday and had arrested several leaders, on the eve of a planned anti-corruption march that has been banned by the authorities. The action comes two days after President Yoweri Museveni, who has ruled the country with an […]
