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DAR ES SALAAM. - Tanzanian President John Magufuli fired his Home Affairs minister Kangi Lugola yesterday, accusing him of mismanaging a US$453 million fire department contract.
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JOHANNESBURG. -After weeks of speculation, rapper AKA has confirmed that he and DJ Zinhle have parted ways.
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JOHANNESBURG. – South Africa’s Department of Health said on Thursday port health authorities have enhanced surveillance for all travellers from Asia, especially China, following an outbreak of coronavirus in the country. Johannesburg’s international airport, OR Tambo, is the only port of entry for direct flights from Asia, it added, saying the measures had been put […]
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LISBON. – The director of private banking at small Portuguese lender Eurobic and manager of Angola’s oil firm Sonangol’s account at the bank, Nuno Ribeiro da Cunha, was found dead at his house in Lisbon on Wednesday, Lusa news agency said on Thursday, citing a police source. The same police source told Lusa that “everything […]
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LUANDA. – Angola’s billionaire former first daughter Isabel dos Santos has been charged with money laundering and mismanagement during her stewardship of state-owned oil firm Sonangol. Documents leaked this week alleged the daughter of ex-president Jose Eduardo dos Santos, plundered state coffers to build her fortune, estimated at $2.1 billion. “Isabel dos Santos is accused […]
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DAR ES SALAAM. -Tanzanian President John Magufuli has assured diplomats based in the east African nation of peaceful, free and fair October 2020 general elections. Addressing the diplomats on Tuesday at a party to welcome the 2020 New Year at State House in the commercial capital Dar es Salaam, President Magufuli said international observers will […]
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ADDIS ABABA. – The 39th ordinary session of the African Union (AU) Permanent Representatives Committee (PRC) on Tuesday kicked off at the AU headquarters in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa. In the framework of the 33rd AU summit, the PRC is holding its two-day session, from January 21, under the theme of the year: “Silencing the […]
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YAOUNDE. — The trial of seven Cameroonian soldiers accused of participating in the killing of two women and two children has begun behind closed doors, two judicial sources said yesterday, after a video of the incident sparked an international outcry. The soldiers were arrested after the video surfaced on social media in July 2018. The […]
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LONDON. — BP signed an agreement with Angola aimed at acquiring oil further exploration rights, state news agency Angop reported, the latest in a flurry of agreements between oil majors and Africa’s second biggest exporter. The deal with country’s petroleum regulator ANPG defines the terms for a risk-sharing contract on offshore oil block 18/15 and […]
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LUSAKA. — President Edgar Lungu has called upon the international community to help address the current effects of floods being experienced in some parts of the country. President Lungu made the call when Japanese Ambassador Ryuta Mizuuchi called on him at State House yesterday. During the meeting with the Japanese Ambassador Ryuta Mizuuchi, president Lungu […]
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BANJUL. — The Gambia’s Attorney-General and Minister of Justice Aboubacarr Tambadou has vowed that former president Yahya Jammeh will be arrested and prosecuted for crimes against humanity any time he steps his feet into the country. Tambadou said Jammeh will face accountability of the highest order as the act of crimes against humanity has been […]
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JOHANNESBURG. — The International Monetary Fund (IMF) yesterday lowered its growth forecasts for the South African economy in 2020 and 2021, citing structural constraints and deteriorating public finances. The IMF now sees the economy growing at 0.8 percent this year, down from a previous forecast for 1.1 percent growth, and 1.0 percent in 2021, down […]
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ADDIS ABABA. — Desert locust swarms in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia, already unprecedented in their size and destructive potential — could swell exponentially and spill over into more countries in East Africa if efforts to deal with the voracious pest are not massively scaled up across the region, FAO warned yesterday. “This has become a […]
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JIGJIGA.- Ethiopian farmer Ahmed Ibrahim batted empty water bottles at a swarm of desert locusts the size of his palms that were devouring his field of khat – the mildly narcotic leaf that is his family’s main source of income. “We have nothing else to sell at the market. How will I feed my eight […]
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WINDHOEK.- For years, like most informal settlement dwellers, Alfeus Aipinge, a resident of Havana informal settlement in the Moses Garoeb Constituency in Namibia’s capital Windhoek practiced open defecation. “We would wait for the sun,” said Aipinge. As such, their community had been plagued by the spread of Hepatitis E. Luckily for him, Aipinge’s social environment […]