Month: January 2020
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Business
Portugal’s Market Watchdog Launches Probe Into Firms Linked To Isabel Dos Santos
Portugal’s market watchdog confirmed on Thursday that it has launched inquiries into various companies where Angolan billionaire Isabel dos Santos…
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World
Libya: Khalifa Haftar’s Forces Threaten To Target Civilian Plane Flying Over Tripoli
Eastern Commander Khalifa Haftar’s forces on Wednesday threatened to target civilian planes found flying over Tripoli, declaring the city and…
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World
Algeria: Foreign Ministers Of Several Countries To Meet In Algiers To Discuss Libya Issue
Algeria’s Foreign Ministry on Wednesday announced the country will host foreign ministers from six northern and sub-Saharan African countries on…
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World
Guinea-Bissau: Electoral Commission Confirms Umaro Cissoko Embalo As New President
Guinea-Bissau’s National Electoral Commission on Wednesday confirmed former Prime Minister Umaro Cissoko Embalo as the winner of a December presidential…
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World
U.S. President Donald Trump Announces Plan To Extend Travel Ban To More African Countries
United States President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced that he intends to expand his controversial travel ban on some countries.…
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Comoros
Comoros Election: Low Turnout In Election Boycotted By Opposition Parties
The people of Comoros voted on Sunday in the first round of a parliamentary election boycotted by opposition parties. Most…
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World
Libya: Berlin Summit Participants Agree To Strengthen Arms Embargo
World leaders seeking to resolve Libya’s long-running conflict on Sunday agreed to refrain from interference in the internal affairs of…
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World
Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan Close To Finalise Blue Nile Dam Agreement This Month
Ministers from Egypt, Ethiopia, and Sudan have agreed upon an initial deal on the filling and operation of Africa’s biggest…
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World
Ethiopia: Electoral Board Proposes To Postpone Elections From May To August
Ethiopia’s Electoral Board on Wednesday proposed to postpone this year’s May general election to August, reported Reuters. During a meeting…
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World
Sudan: Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok Makes Historic Visit To Rebel Stronghold Kauda
Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok on Thursday vowed to achieve peace in Sudan’s war zones as he visited rebel stronghold…
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World
Ethiopia, Egypt, Sudan Fail To Resolve Dispute Over Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam
Ethiopia, Egypt, and Sudan failed to resolve a long-running dispute over the $5 billion Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) being…
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World
Norway Government To Take 600 Migrants Evacuated to Rwanda From Libya
The Norway government on Thursday said it will take 600 asylum-seekers evacuated to Rwanda from Libyan detention centers, reported Reuters.…
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World
Ethiopia’s Parliament Passes New Gun Control Law To Keep A Check On Violence
Ethiopia’s parliament on Thursday passed legislation aimed at tightening ownership and sale of guns in the country after a surge…
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World
Sudan Government Seizes Assets Of Omar Al-Bashir’s Former Ruling Party NCP
The Sudanese government has seized the assets of ousted president Omar al-Bashir’s now-dissolved National Congress Party (NCP), one of the…
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World
Turkey, Russia Calls Out Libya’s Warring Parties To Reach A Ceasefire On Jan 12
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Wednesday appealed Libya’s warring parties to come to…
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World
U.S. Imposes Sanctions On South Sudan Vice President Over Human Rights Abuse
The United States Treasury Department on Wednesday announced it has imposed sanctions on South Sudan’s first vice president, Taban Deng…
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World
Algeria: President Abdelmadjid Tebboune Appoints Panel To Amend Constitution
Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune on Wednesday appointed a panel to amend the country’s constitution to give parliament and the judiciary…
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World
Somalia: Powerful Bomb Explosion At A Busy Junction In Mogadishu Injures 11
At least 11 people have been injured in a bomb explosion at a busy junction in Mogadishu on Wednesday, near…
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World
EgyptAir Temporarily Suspends Flights To Baghdad For 3 Days Over Security Concerns
EgyptAir has reportedly suspended flights to Baghdad starting from Wednesday until Friday due to the instability of security conditions in…
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Central Africa
More Than 6,000 Dead In Democratic Republic Of Congo In World’s Worst Measles Outbreak
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday said the number of people killed by a measles epidemic in the Democratic…
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World
UN Says Intercommunal Clashes In Sudan’s Darfur Killed 54, Displaced Over 40,000
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on Tuesday said tribal clashes between Arabs and non-Arabs…
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World
Guinea: At Least 12 Injured In Protests Against President Alpha Conde’s Government
Thousands of people took to the streets in Guinea on Monday to protest against the government. But, the protest soon…
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World
United Nations Envoy To Libya ‘Angry’ At Foreign Meddling In War-Torn Libya
The United Nations’ envoy to Libya on Monday said he was furious at foreign interference in the war-torn country, reported…
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World
Ivory Coast: President Alassane Ouattara Proposes Amendments To Constitution
Ivory Coast’s President Alassane Ouattara on Monday announced he would propose amendments to the country’s constitution, even as he rubbished…
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World
Militant Group Al-Shabaab’s Attack On US-Kenya Military Base Kills 3 Americans
At least three people, including one US serviceman and two contractors with the US Department of Defense, were killed when…
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