Sat 02 January 2021: The historic Al-Nejashi mosque has been damaged terribly. Images share on Social media shows artillery has destroyed the dome and the interiors via explosion. The Tigray region is one of 10 semi-autonomous federal states organised along ethnic lines in Ethiopia, and home mostly to the Tigrayan people who make up about […]
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Fri 01 January 2021: African countries began officially trading under a new continent-wide free trade area on Friday, after months of delays caused by the global coronavirus pandemic. But experts view the New Year’s Day launch as largely symbolic with full implementation of the deal expected to take years. The African Continental Free Trade Area […]
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Friday 01 January 2021: French news outlet denounces France’s diplomacy in region, calling it ‘diplomacy based on security and economic concerns’ Amid the visit of French prime minister and armed forces minister to French soldiers in Chad, the country’s policy in the West African region received strong criticism in an analysis published in a French […]
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Friday 01 January 2021: An appeal court in Algeria on Thursday sentenced the alleged daughter of ousted President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to 12 years in prison after she was convicted in corruption cases. The Appeal Court of Tipaza fined Zoulikha Nachinache, known as Maya, six million Algerian dinars, and ruled to confiscate all of her real estate. […]
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Thu 31 December 2020: The Sudanese army announced that it has regained control over 80 per cent of Sudanese territory previously seized by Ethiopian militias, stressing that: “The confrontations were against members of the Ethiopian army, not militias, considering the use of large-scale and long-range weapons.” Lieutenant General Khaled Abdin Al-Shami, deputy chief of staff […]
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Wed 30 December 2020: Turkey sent fleets of planes carrying medical supplies, masks, ventilators to help African countries to fight virus From sending ventilators to Somalia, fabric and sewing machines to Mozambique and Eswatini to make masks locally, to solving transportation problems for Ugandan health workers in remote areas, Turkey helped arm its African partners […]
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Wed 30 December 2020: At least 97,000 people have fled their homes and sheltered in two camps after gunmen massacred more than 200 residents last week in western Ethiopia’s Benishangul-Gumuz region. Some 50,000 of the displaced were being sheltered at a makeshift camp in Tana Beles district of Benishangul-Gumuz, while over 40,000 took shelter at […]
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Tue 29 December 2020: Delegates visiting on invitation of Senate chairman Sadiq Sanjrani A 12-member parliamentary delegation of the African Union arrived in Pakistan on a week-long official visit Tuesday, a statement said. According to a press release issued by the Senate, the navel chief of Djibouti is also among the high-level parliamentarian delegation. During their visit, […]
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Mon 28 December 2020: President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced new tougher coronavirus restrictions, a day after South Africa recorded more than one million Covid-19 cases. President Ramaphosa announced South Africa will move back to level 3 with immediate effect from midnight. He said that several of the level 3 regulations were being strengthened to further […]
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Sun 27 December 2020: Boko Haram have seized about 40 loggers and killed three others in north-east Nigeria near the border with Cameroon, militia sources and residents have said. “A group of more than 40 loggers left Shehuri on the outskirts of Gamboru on Thursday and never returned by evening as usual,” said a group […]
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