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Friday, November 5th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, on Friday, called on the international community to raise awareness about tsunami threats and share innovative approaches to decreasing risks. The UN chief said this in a message marking World Tsunami Awareness Day. “We can build on the progress achieved, ranging from better outreach to tsunami-exposed communities […]
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Wednesday, November 3rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The German Government has announced its plan to invest €700 million (810 million dollars) to support the phase-out of coal-fired power stations in South Africa. The funds are part of a new partnership with South Africa, which also includes Britain, the US, France and the European Union (EU). A total of 8.5 […]
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Tuesday, November 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – UN Secretary-General António Guterres has urged global leaders to back the UN strategy to make vaccine equity a reality by accelerating efforts and ensuring maximum vigilance to defeat the Coronavirus (COVID-19). Guterres made the call in a statement just as the world passed yet another milestone of five million lives lost to […]
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Friday, October 29th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The German economy continued on its upward path in the third quarter, posting quarter-on-quarter Gross Domestic Product(GDP) growth of 1.8 per cent based largely on consumer spending. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reported on Friday. According to the latest figures from Destatis, German GDP grew by 1.9 per cent in the second […]
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Wednesday, October 27th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An independent UN human rights expert, Anaïs Marin says women in Belarus are being denied rights and freedoms, while female political activists are subjected to enforced disappearances, torture, ill-treatment and exile. Marin told the General Assembly that the government’s efforts to promote some rights of women at a policy level were rarely […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
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Tuesday, October 26th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Director-General of World Health Organization (WHO), Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has commended the German Government for its generosity and support for the COVID-19 vaccination programme. So far, Germany, with 66.2 per cent of its population fully vaccinated, has contributed with €2.2 billion (2.56 billion dollars), and by the end of the year […]
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Friday, October 15th, 2021
(AFRRICAN EXAMINER) – An estimate of 43,000 people may have been given wrong negative PCR COVID-19 test results in Britain, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said. The Agency said testing operations provided by Immensa Health Clinic at its laboratory in Wolverhampton have been suspended. “It has been suspended following an investigation into reports of […]
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Friday, October 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – One of the largest private aid organizations in Germany, Welthungerhilfe has hinted that more than 800 million people are currently going hungry around the world. Welthungerhilfe is politically independent and non-denominational organization that is fighting hunger around the world and is focusing it works around the Sustainable Development Goal 2 (Zero Hunger […]
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Saturday, October 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Philippine President, Rodrigo Duterte on Saturday said that he was retiring from politics and has decided not to run for vice president in next year’s elections. This, he said, was amidst surveys showing Filipinos believed it would violate the constitution. Duterte, whose six-year term as president ends 2022, instead endorsed his long-time […]
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Saturday, October 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – British care home workers who are not prepared to get the COVID vaccine should “get out and get another job,’’ Health Secretary Sajid Javid said on Saturday. Javid brushed off appeals from providers to pause the legal requirement for staff in England to be fully vaccinated, amid warnings some homes will be […]
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Friday, October 1st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Many British gas stations were still dry on Friday after a chaotic week that saw panic buying, fights at the pumps and drivers hoarding fuel in water bottles. These situations follow an acute shortage of truck drivers strained supply chains to breaking point. Shortages of workers in the wake of Brexit and […]
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Thursday, September 30th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former French president, Nicolas Sarkozy has been sentenced to one year under house arrest over illegal campaign financing, a court in Paris ruled on Thursday. The court ruled that the 66-year-old could serve the sentence in the form of electronically monitored house arrest with an ankle bracelet. According to the court, Sarkozy […]
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Wednesday, September 29th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – British troops are expected to be deployed within days to help ease a fuel supply crisis, the government said on Wednesday, as the retail and hospitality sectors called for foreign workers to be allowed to fill post-Brexit vacancies. The week-long crisis has triggered panic-buying and sparked violence at forecourts as critics blame […]
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Monday, September 20th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Authorities have evacuated about 5,000 people from villages in the Spanish Canary Island of La Palma as lava spews from an erupting volcano, local officials said. The 15-meter high lava flow has already swallowed 20 houses in the village of El Paso and sections of roads, Mayor Sergio Rodriguez told TVE radio […]
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Friday, September 17th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says the world is facing an education crisis due to the COVID pandemic, that has left nearly 77 million children shut out of the classroom for the past 18 months. UNICEF is closing down its social media channels on Thursday for the next 18 hours to send […]
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Wednesday, September 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday moved foreign minister Dominic Raab following sustained criticism of his handling of the Afghanistan crisis, Downing Street said. Johnson made Raab deputy Prime Minister, Justice Secretary and Lord Chancellor in a reshuffle that also saw gaffe-prone education secretary Gavin Williamson sacked. Meanwhile, the finance minister […]
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Tuesday, September 14th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – UK worker numbers have return to normal to pre-pandemic levels after the biggest jump in employment since 2014, new figures showed. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the number of UK workers on payrolls rose by 241,000 between July and August to move 1,000 above levels before the Coronavirus outbreak. It […]
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Friday, September 10th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Queen and the royal family are supporters of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, one of Her Majesty’s representatives has said. Sir Ken Olisa, the first black Lord-Lieutenant for London, revealed to Channel 4 that he had discussed the topic of racism with members of the royal household in the wake […]
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Monday, September 6th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Storage limits for eggs, sperm and embryos would be increased to a maximum of 55 years under British Government plans to give people greater choice over when to start a family. Under the proposals announced by Health Secretary Sajid Javid on Monday, prospective parents would be given the option to keep or […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
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Friday, September 3rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The German Government has said that it is currently supporting the AfricaGrow initiative for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Africa with over €500 million. German Chancellor, Angela Merkel disclosed this in her address at G20 Investment Summit in Berlin last week. The meeting was held under the auspices of the G20 […]
