Category: Africa

STATE OF EMERGENCY IN EGYPT’S SOUTHWEST PROVINCE AFTER 2 BIRD FLU HOTSPOTS DETECTED

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Tue 22 December 2020: Egypt’s veterinary directorate in El-Wadi El-Dedid has declared a state of emergency after finding two bird flu hotspots. The hotspots are on poultry farms in Dakhla Oasis Governorate, one in Ezab Al-Qasr and one in Oweina village. It is the H9 strain, known to infect people, according to the state-run Al-Ahram.   Nagy Awad, head of the veterinary agency in the southwestern […]

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CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC SAYS RUSSIA AND RWANDA DEPLOYS TROOPS IN FACE OF COUP THREAT

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Mon 21 December 2020: The Central African Republic says Russia and Rwanda have deployed hundreds of troops in the deeply unstable country amid an alleged coup bid ahead of presidential and parliamentary elections. A government spokesman said that Russia “has sent several hundred soldiers and heavy weapons” in the framework of a bilateral cooperation agreement […]

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US, SUDAN TO STRENGTHEN BILATERAL MILITARY RELATIONS, SAYS EMBASSY

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Mon 21 December 2020: The United States is continuing to work with the Sudanese Armed Forces to strengthen bilateral military relations, the US embassy announced yesterday. “The removal of Sudan from the State Sponsors of Terrorism list marks a fundamental and historic change,” the embassy’s defense attache office said in a statement that was published on […]

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SOUTH AFRICA IDENTIFIES COVID-19 VARIANT

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Mon 21 December 2020: South African genomic scientists have identified a variant of the SARS-COV-2 virus, currently termed 501.V2 variant. “This genomics team, led by the KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP), has sequenced hundreds of samples from across the country since the beginning of the pandemic in March. “They noticed that a particular […]

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COVID-19 UPDATE: SAUDI ARABIA SUSPENDS INT. FLIGHTS FOR A WEEK, SA HOSPITALS REPORT CAPACITY STRAIN

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Mon 21 December 2020: Saudi Arabia suspended late on Sunday all international commercial flights for a renewable week except for the foreign flights already in the kingdom which will be allowed to leave, state news agency SPA reported quoting an interior ministry source. Suspend all international flights for travelers – except in exceptional cases – […]

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AT LEAST THREE DEAD, SEVEN HURT IN NIGERIA SUICIDE BOMBING

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Sat 19 December 2020: Female bomber targeted town in northeastern Borno State, says official At least three people were killed and seven injured in a suicide attack in northeastern Nigeria . No group has claimed responsibility but residents blame Boko Haram, which has been responsible for multiple similar attacks in Nigeria. The bomber – a […]

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AFTER UK, SOUTH AFRICA IDENTIFIES NEW COVID STRAIN CAUSING SURGE IN CASES

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Sat 19 December 2020: Johannesburg: South Africa has identified a new variant of the coronavirus that is driving a second wave of infections, the health minister said on Friday, days after Britain said it had also found a new variant of the virus boosting cases. “We have convened this public briefing today to announce that […]

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HUNDREDS OF KIDNAPPED NIGERIAN SCHOOLBOYS RELEASED, LOCAL GOVERNOR SAYS

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Fri 18 December 2020: More than 300 schoolboys kidnapped in northern Nigeria have been handed over to government security, the Katsina state governor said in a televised interview. “The abducted students of the Government Science Secondary School, Kankara have been rescued, the Katsina State Government has confirmed the news,” Bashir Ahmad, personal assistant to Nigerian president Muhammadu […]

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