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Burkina Faso names coup leader Traore as transitional president Burkina Faso’s military officials, political parties and civil society leaders officially have designated army captain Ibrahim Traore as the country’s transitional president, two weeks after he seized power in Burkina Faso’s second coup this year. About 300 delegates are meeting over two days in the capital, […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin has encouraged the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) to make payments in national currencies. Speaking at the CIS leaders’ summit in Kazakhstan’s capital Astana, Putin said the regional organization came a long way over the last 30 years, and justified its position as a reputable group based on […]
Some government officials have questioned the latest global data on out-of-school children by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO). Officials of the federal and Lagos education ministries expressed the doubt at an event on Wednesday. UNESCO in September announced that Nigeria now has about 20 million out-of-school children. It noted that there […]
The Country Economic Memorandum (CEM) launched by the World Bank (WB) has said that Zimbabwe needs to sustain productivity growth rates of between eight to nine percent annually for the next seven years if the upper- middle income economy (UMIC) status enshrined under Vision 2030 is to be achieved. “Achieving such unprecedented rates for Zimbabwe […]
About 500 people have been killed and 1.4 million displaced from their homes in Nigeria’s worst floods in a decade after the start of the rainy season, according to the government. Poor infrastructure and heavy rain have caused the foods to affect vast swathes of Africa’s most populous country. The floods have sparked fears that […]
Indian health officials have ordered a maker of cough syrups to halt production after they were linked to the deaths of children in The Gambia. Maiden Pharmaceuticals broke rules “across its manufacturing and testing activities,” Indian regulators found. The World Health Organization (WHO) issued a global alert over four of Maiden’s cough syrups linked to […]
A package of legislation the City Council has passed will set the city on track to become the first in the country to establish universal child care. “Child care is both unaffordable and inaccessible for the vast majority of New Yorkers,” Councilmember Julie Menin, who sponsored the bills, said. “As a mother of four this […]
Minister of Communications and Information Technology Eng. Abdullah Bin Amer Al-Sawaha have met with Minister of Communications and Information Technology and President of Communication Regulatory Authority of the State of Qatar Eng. Mohammed Al-Mannai. Prince Mansour Bin Khalid Bin Farhan, Saudi Ambassador to the State of Qatar, too attended the meeting. The meeting comes within […]
The Ministry of Health has confirmed the first Ebola death in Kampala. Addressing journalists on Tuesday, Health Minister Jane Ruth Aceng said that the death occurred last Friday from Kiruddu National Referral hospital. “The identified case is of a man that traveled from Mubende district, which is the current epicenter of Ebola and changed identification […]
Diplomats have said that African Union-sponsored peace talks between Ethiopia’s federal government and Tigrayan rebels which had been planned for the weekend of October 8, 2022 were delayed due to logistical problems. AU Commission Chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat had invited the leaders of the warring parties to attend a summit in South Africa, according to […]
Chad’s prime minister resigned along with his government on Tuesday, a day after the country’s military leader announced the creation of a “government of national union” to chart the path to new elections. Albert Pahimi Padacke handed in his resignation at an audience with Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno, who on Monday was sworn in as […]
Mayor Eric Adams has signed new legislation banning guns in Times Square, even as a recent court ruling declared such a prohibition to be unconstitutional. The legislation, which follows from a state law that banned firearms in the tourism, commerce and theater hub, bounds the gun-free area as stretching from 40th Street to 53rd Street […]
Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan has defended the recent OPEC+ decision to cut oil production by two million barrels per day. Speaking to Al-Arabiya, Prince Faisal confirmed that Saudi Arabia ties with the United States are strategic and it supported the security and stability in the region. The Saudi minister’s remarks came after the US […]
Frustrated motorists has queued in long lines outside Tunisian petrol stations even after the energy minister had said a shortage would end on Monday with a new delivery of fuel. Many petrol stations started running out of fuel over the weekend as imports slowed and national supplies dropped, leading to lines of cars stretching kilometres […]
President William Ruto has disclosed that ten companies are set to join the Nairobi Stock Exchange in the next one year. He said that his government is keen on listing more companies on the NSE, effectively stimulating liquidity and giving shareholders an opportunity to realise the value of their investments. “In the next 12 months, […]
The Gambia Police Force has revealed that four indian pharmaceutical products are responsible for the deaths of over sixty-six children in The Gambia. This is contained in the report released by the country’s Police Force on Tuesday October 11, 2022. According to the report, after the outbreak of Acute Kidney Injury which claimed the lives […]
Governor Babagana Umara Zulum has presented a cheque of N100m to support the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital. Zulum presented the cheque on Friday October 7, 2022, while laying the foundation for the construction of 24 units of 3-bedroom apartments for medical staff of the hospital. The apartments are to be fit into four blocks […]
The presidents of Tanzania and Kenya have agreed to fast-track construction of a natural gas pipeline designed to increased trade and lower energy costs for both countries. The decision was reached Monday in bilateral talks in Dar es Salaam led by Tanzanian President Samia Hassan and Kenyan President William Ruto, during a two-day visit. Last […]
Heatwaves will become so extreme in certain regions of the world within decades that human life there will be unsustainable, the United Nations and the Red Cross said Monday. Heatwaves are predicted to “exceed human physiological and social limits” in the Sahel, the Horn of Africa and south and southwest Asia, with extreme events triggering […]