Mon 07 September 2020: President said new bill will help restore the confidence of the country’s women that the law is there to protect them JOHANNESBURG – South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said Monday the country will tighten laws on gender based violence and sexual offences which have been widespread in the rainbow nation. Writing […]
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Sun 06 September 2020: Mali’s ousted President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita has been airlifted to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for medical treatment after his health deteriorated following his detention and subsequent release by the military junta. The 75-year-old was arrested after a military coup in the country on August 18 and was forced to announce his resignation […]
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Sat 05 September 2020: Committees representing government, Tobruk parliament meet in Morocco to discuss Libyan files RABAT, Morocco – Morocco is hosting consultations between Libya’s warring rivals to discuss ways of ending the country’s 10-year conflict, a Libyan official said Saturday. “Meetings are currently underway between committees representing the Libyan government and the Tobruk parliament […]
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Sat 05 September 2020: Mali’s military government has begun talks with opposition groups on its promised transition to civilian rule after mounting pressure in recent weeks to yield power. The military government’s leaders, who overthrew President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita in a coup in August, pledged to step down after an undefined transition period, but the putsch prompted […]
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Fri 04 September 2020: Over 100 health care workers have tested positive for COVID-19 in South Sudan, Health Ministry says JUBA, South Sudan – The World Health Organization and African development bank group has delivered 70 tons of personal protective equipment worth 5.2 million dollars to South Sudan to help fight the novel coronavirus. The […]
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Fri 04 September 2020: Senior officials say land is ‘birthright’ of indigenous Zimbabweans amid compensation deal with dispossessed white farmers Zimbabwe said it would not return all the plots of land that the government had previously expropriated from white former farmers to their previous owners, local media reported Thursday. Dismissing recent media reports that a land reform scheme in the southern African country would reduce […]
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Thu 03 September 2020: WHO official urges working with communities to prepare way for one of ‘largest vaccination campaigns in Africa’ African countries are signing up to an initiative aiming to secure for the continent millions of doses of a potential novel coronavirus vaccine once it is licensed and approved, an official from the World Health […]
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Thu 03 September 2020: The US is reportedly cutting $100m (£75m) in aid to Ethiopia over a controversial mega dam being built on a tributary of the River Nile. A government source said the move had been triggered by Ethiopia’s move to start filling the dam before reaching agreement with Egypt and Sudan. Ethiopia, Sudan […]
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Wed 02 September 2020: GENEVA – The UN human rights chief Tuesday welcomed the signing of a peace deal between the Transitional Government of Sudan and majority of the country’s armed groups as a major step in ending the suffering inflicted on Sudanese over the past decades. “I hope that this hugely positive development can […]
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Tue 01 September 2020: Doctors in Nigeria’s capital Abuja have started an “indefinite strike” due to non-payment of a special coronavirus allowance, local media reported on Tuesday. The Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) announced the decision following a meeting on Saturday, according to the Premium Times news website. “The association would embark on a strike action […]
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