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July 7, 2020 | COVID-19: Over 200,000 Cases Recorded in South Africa...
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July 7, 2020 | ISIS Cell Attacked, Four Arrested in Morocco...
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July 7, 2020 | Burundi’s Health Minister Pays a Visit to Testing Centres...
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July 7, 2020 | Burundi, South Sudan Risk Expulsion From East Africa Bloc...
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July 7, 2020 | Schools, Classes Would Resume in 2021 – Kenyan Government...
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July 7, 2020 | Barcelona Unlikely to Sign Neymar...
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July 7, 2020 | Why Magu was Arrested – SERAP...
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July 7, 2020 | GHANA ELECTION: John Mahama Selects First Female Running Mate for Major Party...
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July 7, 2020 | Man Commits Suicide after Shooting Dead Two Women, Injures Teenage Daughter...
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July 7, 2020 | COVID-19: Over 200,000 Cases Recorded in South Africa...
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July 7, 2020 | Pressure on Buhari to Sack EFCC Acting Chairman...
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July 7, 2020 | ISIS Cell Attacked, Four Arrested in Morocco...
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July 7, 2020 | Burundi’s Health Minister Pays a Visit to Testing Centres...
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July 7, 2020 | Burundi, South Sudan Risk Expulsion From East Africa Bloc...
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July 7, 2020 | Schools, Classes Would Resume in 2021 – Kenyan Government...
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July 7, 2020 | Barcelona Unlikely to Sign Neymar...
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July 7, 2020 | Why Magu was Arrested – SERAP...
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July 7, 2020 | GHANA ELECTION: John Mahama Selects First Female Running Mate for Major Party...
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July 7, 2020 | Man Commits Suicide after Shooting Dead Two Women, Injures Teenage Daughter...
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COVID-19: Over 200,000 Cases Recorded in South Africa...
South Africa has become a COVID-19 model for the continent in many ways since it confirmed its index case on 5th March, 2020. From the area of testing through to record number of recoveries, South Africa has been praised for pro-activeness in combating the virus. The economic intervention measures rolled out by President Cyril Ramaphosa has also been classed as one of the most comprehensive across the continent. South Africa was one of the earliest to roll out such measures. That President Ramaphosa is also the current Chairperson of the African Union, AU; means he has the delicate task of […]Read more...
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Pressure on Buhari to Sack EFCC Acting Chairman...
A group of human rights lawyers, Coalition of Public Interests Lawyers and Advocates (COPA), has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to relieve the EFCC Acting Chairman, Mr Ibrahim Magu of his duties following allegations of corruption against him recently from different quarters. The group made the call in a statement issued in Abuja on Tuesday by its convener, Mr Pelumi Olajengbesi. Olajengbesi said that Magu’s continued stay in the country’s anti-corruption office when he had corruption allegations levelled against him, made a mockery of President Buhari’s cabinet in fighting corruption. According to him, Magu’s lack of transparency in the management of […]Read more...
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ISIS Cell Attacked, Four Arrested in Morocco...
Morocco’s Interior Ministry announced Tuesday that four alleged members of a “terrorist cell” linked to the jihadist group Islamic State (EI) had been arrested. Nabbed in Nador in the country’s north-east, the arrested persons, aged between 21 and 26, had “decided to carry out terrorist attacks targeting sensitive sites in the kingdom,” the ministry said in a statement. The suspects, “were in close contact” with members of another cell dismantled in December between Morocco and neighbouring Spain, according to the same source. Tuesday’s dismantling operation was carried out by the Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations (BCIJ, anti-terrorism) and the suspects […]Read more...
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Burundi’s Health Minister Pays a Visit to Testing Centres...
Burundi’s health minister Monday visited a COVID-19 testing center in Bujumbura. The visit comes as the new president has signaled that his government will take the coronavirus pandemic more seriously than his dead predecessor. President Evariste Ndayishimiye called the virus the country’s worst enemy and announced new screenings. He said the screenings will be launched wherever clusters of cases are suspected, and that soap prices and water bills will be reduced so lot of people would be able to afford it. Predecessor Pierre Nkurunziza died last month of what Burundi’s government called a heart attack. His government had been criticized […]Read more...
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Burundi, South Sudan Risk Expulsion From East Africa Bloc...
South Sudan’s economic woes are affecting diplomatic representation – this time relative to membership of the regional bloc, the East African Community. The country risks expulsion from the EAC because it has defaulted over membership dues. The EAC’s Assembly recently voted to expel South Sudan and serial defaulter, Burundi. A final decision on the issue will be taken when leaders of the member nations next meet. The bloc comprises Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda, Burundi, South Sudan. EAC members are supposed to pay $8m a year in dues. Burundi has not paid for four years – which comes up to over […]Read more...
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Schools, Classes Would Resume in 2021 – Kenyan Government...
Primary and secondary school students in Kenya will only return to school in 2021, the Education Ministry announced on Tuesday morning. Subsequently, terminal exams for both levels – the Kenya Primary Certificate Exams, and the Kenya Secondary Certificate Exams – have also been cancelled. The decision is based on the evolution of the coronavirus pandemic in the East African country. There are over 8,000 confirmed cases as at June 6 2020. President Kenyatta on the same day announced the partial lifting of a curfew on hotspots whiles a number of restrictions were also eased. The president at the time only […]Read more...
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Barcelona Unlikely to Sign Neymar...
Neymar’s proposed return to Barcelona has essentially been ruled out by club president Josep Bartomeu, who says the transfer market will be negatively impacted due to the ongoing pandemic Barca lured Neymar to Camp Nou from Santos in 2013 and he went on to help the club win eight major trophies, including two La Liga titles and the Champions League. The 28-year-old scored 105 goals in 186 appearances for the Blaugrana in total, while forming a deadly attacking trinity alongside Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez. However, Neymar decided to leave Catalonia in the summer of 2017, with it suggested he […]Read more...
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Why Magu was Arrested – SERAP...
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) in the early hours of Tuesday has expressed concerns over the arrest of acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu SERAP said that Magu might have been arrested due to a power-play at the highest levels of government, and there might also be some politics game in it. The EFCC boss is still being detained in police custody on the orders of a presidential panel probing alleged infractions against him. On Tuesday, SERAP’s Deputy Director Kolawole Oluwadare, said: “The reported statement by a member of PACAC seems to […]Read more...
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GHANA ELECTION: John Mahama Selects First Female Running Mate for...
As Ghana’s 2020 election moves closer, Former Ghana President John Mahama, who is set to retake the Presidency has announced on Monday that he had chosen Jane Naana Opoku-Agyeman as his running mate for this year’s election, making her the first woman on a major Ghanaian party’s presidential ticket. Opoku-Agyemang, 69, served as Ghana’s education minister between 2013 and 2017 under Mahama’s presidency. She also became the first female vice-chancellor of the University of Cape Coast in 2008. She has also served in various other positions both locally and internationally, traits Mahama is confident will help him clinch back the […]Read more...
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