Mon 09 November 2020: “It is survival of the fittest here. We have to wake up early and join the queue to get water from this borehole. If you wake up late, you may not get the water,” said Nyarai Mudavanhu (27) as she narrated how the shortage of water in her community is posing […]
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Sun 08 November 2020: The US Agency for International Development said it will grant $20 million to the World Food Programme to purchase wheat for Sudan to alleviate shortages in the East African country. The US announced in October that it will rescind Sudan’s 27-year-old listing as a state sponsor of terrorism, a status that […]
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Sun 08 November 2020: Prime Minster Abiy Ahmed is pressing ahead with a military campaign he announced on Wednesday against the northern region, despite international pleas to pursue dialogue with the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF). Meanwhile Nine million people risk displacement from the escalating conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, the United Nations said, warning […]
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Sat 07 November 2020: Tunisian authorities have seized thousands of tonnes of harmful waste imported from Italy following an investigative report broadcast by local TV. According to RT, the Tunisian authorities blocked 70 containers of the waste at the Port of Sousse in order to return them to Italy, after checking an extra 200 containers including […]
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Sat 07 October 2020: Africa’s coronavirus cases to date now total over 1.8 million, according to the latest figures released on Saturday. At least 44,471 people have died from the virus across the continent, while nearly 1.5 million more have recovered, data from the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) showed. By […]
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Sat 07 November 2020: Ethiopia’s parliament voted on Saturday to approve the formation of an interim government for the Tigray region as fighting continued and fears of all-out war escalated. Ethiopia’s federal government said the interim administration will “appoint officials, ensure the respect for rule of law, approve the region’s budget and facilitate the process […]
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Sat 07 November 2020: The UN Children’s Fund on Friday said it is alarmed by increased attacks on educational institutions in Cameroon’s North-West and South-West regions, according to a statement. UNICEF called on all parties to protect all children, at school or in their communities in the Centrals African country. There has been an alarming […]
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Fri 06 October 2020: Fears of civil conflict as air raids and artillery battles reported in TPLF and federal government standoff “Our country has entered into a war it didn’t anticipate. This war is shameful, it is senseless,” Berhanu Jula Gelalcha, Ethiopia’s deputy chief of defence staff, told a press conference in Addis Ababa on […]
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Wed 04 November 2020: Ethiopia’s prime minister has ordered a military response to a Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) attack on a military camp in the regional capital of Mekele. Earlier, authorities of the TPLF, a party that parted ways with the country’s ruling party, blocked army movements in and out of Tigray State. In […]
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Tue 03 November 2020: The West African nation of Sierra Leone on Tuesday opened its first embassy in Turkey’s capital Ankara. The opening ceremony was attended by Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu and his Sierra Leonean counterpart Nabeela Tunis. “Pleased to inaugurate together w/my sister @NabeelaTunis the Embassy of friendly and brotherly #SierraLeone,” Çavuşoğlu said on Twitter. Sierra Leone is […]
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