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• Nigeria’s Education Minister insists on Jan. 18 for resumption of schools

  Nigeria's Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, has said that the January 18, 2021 schools' resumption date will not be…

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• Zimbabwe minister dies of COVID-19

  The provincial minister for Zimbabwe's Manicaland province Ellen Gwaradzimba died of COVID-19 complications on Friday, becoming the latest high-profile casualty…

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• Malawi: Chakwera appeals for $220m aid amid COVID-19 surge

  Malawi President Lazarus Chakwera has appealed for at least US$220 million from the international community to help the southern African…

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• Ghana: Press focuses on presidential election petition by Supreme Court, others

  The nomination of seven justices of the Supreme Court by the the Chief Justice to adjudicate the presidential election petition…

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• Soldiers surround Bobi Wine’s Kampala home

  The Kampala home of Uganda's main presidential election contender has been surrounded by security forces, a day after crucial elections.Soldiers…

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• Uganda polls: Museveni leads in early vote count

  Provisional results from Uganda's electoral commission on Friday suggest that President Yoweri Museveni has established an early lead over his…

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• Covid-19: Gambia confirms two cases of UK variant

  Two cases of a variant coronavirus detected in the United Kingdom have been confirmed in The Gambia by the country's…

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• Press zooms in on warning by some eminent Nigerians on state of the nation, others

  The warning by a host of eminent Nigerians that 51 years after the Nigerian-Biafran Civil War, that the country learned…

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• Four tourists survive plane crash in northern Zimbabwe

  A Briton and three Singaporeans survived after the plane they were travelling in crash-landed in a resort area in northern…

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• Morocco: Dakhla now linked to Paris

  The large city of southern Morocco is about to be linked by a regular flight to Paris, the French capital.The…

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• Rwanda: 40 COVID-19 patients in critical condition

  At least 40 COVID-19 patients in Rwanda are admitted in critial condition since the pandemic outbreak in March, an official…

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• COVID-19 and W/Africa: 2,872 new cases, 21 new deaths in 24 hours

  The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has recorded 2,872 new cases and 21 new deaths of COVID-19 in…

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• Washington recognizes Moroccan rule over Sahara

  A high-level U.S. delegation recently visited the premises of the future diplomatic representation of Uncle Sam's country in the Moroccan…

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• Botswana diversifies fuel imports as supplies from S/Africa decline

  Botswana has diversified sources of fuel imports following the reduction of supplies from South Africa, according to reports monitored here…

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• S/Africa’s Covid-19 death toll tops 35,000

  South Africa's coronavirus death toll has surpassed over 35,000 dead following a record number of deaths on Wednesday, Health Minister…

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• AU taskforce secures 270m COVID-19 vaccine doses

  The African Union's African Vaccine Acquisition Task Team (AVATT) has acquired a provisional 270 million COVID-19 vaccine doses for the…

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• ECOWAS Court urges support to strengthen effectiveness of Court

  The ECOWAS Court of Justice has invested 345,126 dollars in the procurement of the virtual technology infrastructure that will enable…

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• AfCFTA is up and running despite challenges, Secretary General assures critics

  Nigeria-AfCFTA-Economy AfCFTA is up and running despite challenges, Secretary General assures critics APA – Lagos (Nigeria) Africa's journey to market…

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• Ugandan elections suffer early glitches

  Some of the biometric verification machines being used in Uganda's general elections have malfunctioned, a spokesman of the electoral commission…

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• Press zooms in on claims that ruling APC has plunged Nigerians into poverty, others

  The claim by the opposition Peoples Democratic Party that the ruling All Progressives Congress has plunged Nigerians into poverty and…

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• Ugandan elections: a generational contest

  Much is at stake as millions of Ugandans from among 18, 103,603 registered voters queue out to vote in Thursday's…

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• Ghana: Press focuses on election petition hearing at Supreme Court, others

  The kick-off of the election petition hearing at the Supreme Court of Ghana and the move by the leadership of…

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• Rwandan peacekeeper killed in CAR

  One Rwandan peacekeeper has been killed and another slightly wounded in the Central African Republic (CAR) during fresh clashes with…

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• COVID-19: Lesotho on 14-day total lockdown

  Lesotho on Thursday entered the first day of a two-week total lockdown imposed by the government earlier this week in…

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• FAO warns desert locusts continue East Africa migration

  Immature locust swarms continue to migrate southwards from different breeding areas in eastern Africa, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)…

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• Covid-19: Tunisia introduces general lockdown

  Tunisia on Tuesday issued a decree for a general lockdown accompanied by a “reinforced curfew” of four days from Thursday,…

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• S/Africa: Misinformation hampering Covid-19 efforts – Scientist

  South Africa's award-winning scientist, Salim Abdool Karim, on Wednesday condemned the proliferation of misinformation against coronavirus vaccines, saying the inaccurate…

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• US observers snub Ugandan elections

  The United States will not send a mission to Uganda to observe the country's general elections which will hold on…

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• S/Africa: Over 20,000 arrested for breaching Covid-19 lockdown rules

  More than 20,000 South Africans have been arrested for violating the stricter coronavirus restrictions announced last December to usher in…

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• Nile nations “undermining” dam talks – Ethiopia

  Ethiopia has accused Sudan and Egypt of deliberately holding back the progress of the trilateral negotiation on the Grand Ethiopian…

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