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Somali Pilgrims Refuse To Go Home

Somali Pilgrims Refuse To Go Home

About 2,292 or 31.48 percent of this year’s Somali Hajis have reportedly refused to return home, citing the poor security and economic situation in their country. This is according to the Tawafa Establishment for Pilgrims from Arab States, which stated that this was out of 7,280 pilgrims from Somalia, a local daily reported on Wednesday. […]

The United States Deploys More Troops To Cameroon

The United States Deploys More Troops To Cameroon

The United States deployed approximately 90 troops to Cameroon Monday as part of an effort to assist Cameroon and other regional governments in their efforts to battle extremist groups in the region. President Barack Obama sent a letter to Congress Wednesday informing lawmakers of the move. In the letter, sent under the War Powers Resolution, […]

Nigeria Will Have No Petroleum Minister: President Buhari

Nigeria Will Have No Petroleum Minister: President Buhari

There is an indication that the Presidency has reversed itself on the petroleum ministerial position. The portfolio will now have no minister, while a ministerial nominee in the person of Emmanuel Kachikwu, current Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, would be Minister of State for Petroleum Resources. This indication was given by the […]

It’s Easy To Leave The UN Base In South Sudan But Departing Is Often Accompanied By Death

It’s Easy To Leave The UN Base In South Sudan But Departing Is Often Accompanied By Death

Whether it’s through breaks in the patchy razor-wired mud walls or out its gates, it is easy to leave the UN base here but departing is often accompanied by death. About 100 metres from the main gate of the United Nations Mission in the Republic of South Sudan (UNMISS), a tractor-digger clears space in a […]

Earlier Bed Delivery Could Have Halved Sierra Leone Ebola Outbreak

Earlier Bed Delivery Could Have Halved Sierra Leone Ebola Outbreak

Supplying beds for Ebola patients to health facilities in Sierra Leone saved tens of thousands of lives by isolating patients, but providing them just one month earlier could have halved the number of reported cases, researchers said on Monday. The delivery of nearly 3,000 beds by Britain, Sierra Leone and aid agencies between September 2014 […]

South Africa’s Sick Miners Take Gold Mines To Court

South Africa’s Sick Miners Take Gold Mines To Court

South Africa has always been known for its lucrative gold mines. In the process Johannesburg even became known as the City of Gold. But not all that glitters is gold, as miners have found out at a cost. The case of South African current and ex-mineworkers who contracted tuberculosis (TB) and silicosis-a degenerative lung disease […]

Guinea Opposition Calls For Election Results To Be Cancelled Because Of Massive Fraud

Guinea Opposition Calls For Election Results To Be Cancelled Because Of Massive Fraud

Opposition leader Cellou Dalein Diallo has called for the results of the first round of Guinea’s presidential election to be voided, citing “massive fraud.” Diallo is expected to face President Alpha Conde in a run-off. “We cannot accept this ballot, we request it be annulled. We will not accept the results of this vote,” said […]

Zimasa Mabela, South Africa’s First Black Female Navy Commander

Zimasa Mabela, South Africa’s First Black Female Navy Commander

As a girl in the village of Lady Frere, Zimasa Mabela’s life revolved around school, and fetching firewood and water from the river. The country’s first black female navy commander says she only saw the sea for the first time when she was 18. “I guess, having read books and watched movies, it was not […]

Zambia’s President Lungu Launches Electronic Voucher System To Enable Farmers To Easily Buy Inputs

Zambia’s President Lungu Launches Electronic Voucher System To Enable Farmers To Easily Buy Inputs

Government has released funds to support farmers to buy inputs of their choice from registered agro-dealers under the newly launched Electronic vulture voucher system. President Edgar Lungu announced in Mbabala in Choma district during the launch of the Farmer Input Support Programme (FISP) Electronic Voucher system that the treasury has released funds required to enable […]

Fired Zimbabwe Vice-President, Joice Mujuru Tells Mugabe’s Army To Back off

Fired Zimbabwe Vice-President, Joice Mujuru Tells Mugabe’s Army To Back off

FORMER Vice-President Joice Mujuru’s People First (PF) political movement has warned army officers and securocrats to stay clear of civilian political processes and making inflammatory statements that could trigger civil unrest. In a statement yesterday, Mujuru, through PF spokesperson, Rugare Gumbo said recent threats made against her by Commander of the Zimbabwe Presidential Guard Brigadier […]

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