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France Says It Has Killed Senior Al Qaeda Operative In Mali

France Says It Has Killed Senior Al Qaeda Operative In Mali

French forces say a military leader of al qaeda’s north Africa wing, Bah Ag Moussa, has been killed during an operation in northeastern Mali.

Armed forces minister Florence Parly said on Friday, this is a major success in the fight against terrorism. Moussa, who was on the U.S. terrorism list, was killed on Tuesday after an operation involving ground troops and helicopters and comes after a…

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Ethiopia's PM Condemns 'Massacre Of Civilians'

Ethiopia’s PM Condemns ‘Massacre Of Civilians’

Amnesty International says civilians were massacred in the ongoing crisis in Ethiopia’s Tigray region.  The rights group says scores and probably hundreds” of civilians have been killed.

Witnesses blamed forces loyal to the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) for Monday’s killings but Tigrayan officials have denied that pro-TPLF troops were involved.

Fighting between government forces and the…

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At Least 14 Soldiers Killed In Burkina Faso Ambush

At Least 14 Soldiers Killed In Burkina Faso Ambush

In Burkina Faso, fourteen soldiers have been reported killed in ambush after suspected militants attacked them in the northern part of the country.

The attack happened in Oudalan province, near the borders with Mali and Niger.

The ministry of communication said on Thursday security forces had been deployed to the area to track down the perpetrators of the attack carried out on Wednesday.

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Ethiopia Appoints Interim Governor For Tigray State

Ethiopia Appoints Interim Governor For Tigray State

Ethiopia’s prime mimister Abi y Ahmed has on Friday appointed an interim administrator for the northern Tigray state where a military operation to oust the authorities there is underway.

Ahmed in a statement issued disclosed that Dr Mulu Nega has been appointed chief executive of the state. He added “The chief executive will recruit and appoint heads to lead executive organs of the regional state…

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Ghana President Akufo-Addo Declares Seven Days Of National Mourning For Rawlings

Ghana President Akufo-Addo Declares Seven Days Of National Mourning For Rawlings

Condolences are pouring in for late Ghanaian president Jerry Rawlings whom the African Union Commission chairman Moussa Faki Mahamat described as charismatic continental statesman. Mahamat paid tribute to former leader Jerry Rawlings, saying that “Africa has lost a stalwart of pan-Africanism.

The former president died at a state hospital in the capital Accra at the age of 73.

Many leaders across…

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South Africa Reopens To Foreign Travelers Amid Virus Creep

South Africa Reopens To Foreign Travelers Amid Virus Creep

South Africa has opened its borders to international travel, following more than 7 months closure of ports of entry to non-essential travel to prevent the spread of coronavirus.

President Cyril Rampahosa in a speech on Wednesday, extended the national state of disaster until December but said the ban on international flights is being lifted to allow businesses in the tourism and hospitality…

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Schools Open In Senegal After Months-Long Virus Break

Schools Open In Senegal After Months-Long Virus Break

Schools in Senegal have reopened after months of closure. Students returned to schools on Thursday. Four million students, from primary to secondary school, are expected to return to classes, but a number of them are reported to have delayed their return.

Schools were closed in march after the first case of COVID-19 in the country. Only 500,000 students in examination classes had returned to…

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Mozambique Denies Mass Beheadings By Jihadists

Mozambique Denies Mass Beheadings By Jihadists

The Mozambican government has denied reports of mass beheading by militant Islamists in the northern Cabo Delgado province.

The governor of the gas-rich province, Valige Tauabo said contrary to reports, there were no recent killings in any district of the province.

He added that the last known killings by the Islamists took place in April.

The state media had on Tuesday reported, more than 50…

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Food Aid, Medical Supplies Blocked From Ethiopia's Tigray, UN Warns

Food Aid, Medical Supplies Blocked From Ethiopia’s Tigray, UN Warns

The United Nations says aid agencies supporting the troubling Tigray region in Ethiopia are struggling to provide aid in the state.

The federal government has been conducting a military offensive against forces loyal to the Tigray state’s authorities.

The un resident and humanitarian co-ordinator for Ethiopia, Catherine Sozi, told the media that providing humanitarian assistance had been…

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Ethiopian Parliament Lifts Prosecution Immunity For Tigray Leader

Ethiopian Parliament Lifts Prosecution Immunity For Tigray Leader

Ethiopian parliament has now stripped 39 members, including the Tigray regional president Debretsion Gebremichael, of immunity from prosecution. As both authorities are at logger heads.

The state news agency reported on Thursday, a senior official, Getachew Reda, of Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) which is fighting federal forces, also lost immunity.

Communications are down and outsiders…

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UNICEF, WHO Issue Alert On Low Polio, Measles Vaccinations

UNICEF, WHO Issue Alert On Low Polio, Measles Vaccinations

The United Nations Children Agency, UNICEF, and the World Health Organization, W.H.O., have raised an alarm that millions of children are at risk of not being vaccinated against polio and measles because of the coronavirus, especially in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation.

The agencies issued a joint statement on Wednesday in Abuja, saying it is essential to address the global COVID-19…

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Zimbabwe Pledges Support In Mozambique Insurgency

Zimbabwe Pledges Support In Mozambique Insurgency

Zimbabwe president Emmerson Mnangagwa says his country is ready to assist neighbouring Mozambique amid an escalating Islamist insurgency in the northern Cabo Delgado province.

The president tweeted that the “security of their region is paramount in the protection of the people.”

The conflict, which broke out in Mozambique three years ago, threatens to destabilize the region as the insurgents have…

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Angola Worried Over Doctors COVID-19 Fatalities

Angola Worried Over Doctors COVID-19 Fatalities

Angolan authorities are worried about the number of medical staff who have succumbed to the coronavirus in the line of duty.

October has been recorded as the deadliest for doctors in Angola, nine of whom lost their lives to COVID-19 in the exercise of their profession.

Covid-19 case numbers have been increasing every day. Authorities blame the surge on the general population’s non-compliance with…

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Trump Refusal To Concede 'An Embarrassment' - Biden

Trump Refusal To Concede ‘An Embarrassment’ – Biden

President-elect Joe Biden it an embarrassment, president Donald Trump’s refusal to concede victory in last week’s presidential election.

But Biden insists nothing would stop the transfer of power in January.

Several vote counts are still ongoing and the outcome will only be verified once the US Electoral College meets on December the 14th.

The electoral college is made up of delegates from each…

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UN Deputy Secretary-General Says IDPs Are Tired And Want To Go Home

UN Deputy Secretary-General Says IDPs Are Tired And Want To Go Home

The United Nations deputy secretary-general, Amina Mohammed says internally displaced persons living in camps across Borno State in Nigeria’s northeast are tired of living there and want to go home.  She was speaking in Maiduguri, Borno state capital, on Tuesday where she interacted with IDPs in the border town of Banki in the Bama local government area of the state.

Mohammed says the…

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Cross River Assembly Appeals To Doctors To End Indefinite Strike

Cross River Assembly Appeals To Doctors To End Indefinite Strike

The Cross River State House of Assembly is appealing to medical doctors in the state to stop their indefinite strike action.

Chairman of the state’s house committee on health, Ekpo Ekpo Bassey, called on the striking doctors to return to work in the interest of pregnant women, children, other vulnerable and poor masses in the state.

The doctors decided to go on an indefinite strike after the…

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Petroleum Tanker Drivers Not Part Of Pengassan Nationwide Industrial Action

Petroleum Tanker Drivers Not Part Of Pengassan Nationwide Industrial Action

The petroleum tanker drivers unit of the National Union of Petroleum and National Gas, NUPENG, says it would not participate in the proposed strike action by a united of the petroleum industry.

This reassures Nigerians that the industrial action by the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, would not affect petroleum products distribution in the country.

Chairma…

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