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Baby, Maternal Deaths Increase In Sierra Leone On Ebola Fear

Baby, Maternal Deaths Increase In Sierra Leone On Ebola Fear

Maternal and newborn deaths in Sierra Leone have soared since the Ebola outbreak in West Africa as fear of being infected and mistrust of health workers deter pregnant women from giving birth in health facilities, researchers said on Tuesday. Deaths of women during or just after childbirth rose by almost a third and those of […]

Oscar Pistorius’ Release Delayed Again: His Family Is Very Angry

Oscar Pistorius’ Release Delayed Again: His Family Is Very Angry

OSCAR Pistorius’ family on Tuesday accused South African officials of bowing to “political and media hype” after the star’s release from prison was again delayed and he was ordered to undergo psychotherapy. A parole review board on Monday decided that Pistorius should not yet be allowed out on house arrest despite qualifying for early release […]

PwC Achieves Double Digit Growth In Africa And The Middle East: Revenues Up 16%

PwC Achieves Double Digit Growth In Africa And The Middle East: Revenues Up 16%

The PwC network reported total global gross revenues of US$35.4 billion for the fiscal year ended on 30 June 2015. At constant exchange rates, PwC’s total global revenues rose by 10%. This is up markedly from the previous year and the strongest year-on-year growth that the network has seen since FY07. Growth was strong across […]

Malawi President Says Mrs. Joyce Banda Forced Him To Charter A Private Jet To The UN

Malawi President Says Mrs. Joyce Banda Forced Him To Charter A Private Jet To The UN

Malawi President Peter Mutharika does not appear to tone down on his predecessor, Mrs. Joyce Banda.In his latest attacks, described by commentators as ludicrous, Mutharika has asked Malawians to blame the former president, saying she forced him to use K300 million to charter a private jet from Dubai to the United States to attend the […]

New Bomb Blast Rocks Southern China City

New Bomb Blast Rocks Southern China City

A new explosion rocked a residential building in southern China on Thursday, a day after 17 mail bomb explosions killed at least seven people and wounded 52 others. No one was injured in the latest blast, which damaged a six-story building in Liucheng, in Guangxi province near the Vietnamese border. The explosion occurred 16 hours […]

Emails Reveal U.S. Pressured Kenya to Expand Dadaab Refugee Camp

Emails Reveal U.S. Pressured Kenya to Expand Dadaab Refugee Camp

The United States government quietly pressured Kenyan authorities to expand the Dadaab camp, as more Somali refugees poured into Kenya to flee famine and terrorists. A new trove of emails published by the State Department on Wednesday show that officials from the American government prevailed upon the then Grand Coalition government to open the Ifo […]

Buhari Acting As Petroleum Minister

Buhari Acting As Petroleum Minister

The national deputy president of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Issa Aremu, has advised President Muhammadu Buhari to rescind his decision to make himself the petroleum minister. Aremu said President Buhari would send a wrong signal that the nation’s economy will still largely depend on the oil and gas sector if he went ahead […]

Suspected Rebel Raid On DRC Army Camp Leaves 8 Dead

Suspected Rebel Raid On DRC Army Camp Leaves 8 Dead

At least eight people were killed late Thursday in an attack on an army camp in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo that local sources blamed on Rwandan Hutu rebels targeted by a Congolese army operation. Gunmen raided the camp in the village of Rumangabo, about 45 kilometers (30 miles) north of North Kivu’s provincial […]

Uganda’s Opposition Alliance Fails To Choose A Single Candidate

Uganda’s Opposition Alliance Fails To Choose A Single Candidate

In Uganda, the opposition Democratic Alliance (TDA) has failed to choose a single candidate to challenge President Yoweri Museveni in the 2016 presidential election after nearly a week of deliberation. The two main candidates for the alliance’s leadership were Dr. Kizza Besigye of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), Uganda’s main opposition party, and former […]

Burkina Faso’s Minister Of Security, Colonel Sidi Pare Fired Over Failed Coup

Burkina Faso’s Minister Of Security, Colonel Sidi Pare Fired Over Failed Coup

Burkina Faso’s leaders have disbanded the elite presidential guard unit that staged a failed coup last week.Interim President Michel Kafando signed the decree late Friday on national television. Kafando also fired the country’s minister of security, Colonel Sidi Pare. Members of the presidential guard mounted the coup last week, unhappy that the transitional government had […]

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