(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Namibia’s President Hage Geingob on Tuesday said that the rate of COVID-19 infections due to the Omicron variant had sky rocked. He said this was signaling that the southwestern African nation was now in the fourth COVID-19 wave. Geingob said this on the 38th occasion of the COVID-19 public briefing on national […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Judge of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, Justice Stella Anukam has reiterated the need for the Nigerian Government to ensure that citizens and Non- Governmental Organisations (NGOs) have direct access to the African Court. Justice Anukam said Nigeria should activate Article 34(6) of the Protocol to the African Charter […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa, has tested positive for Covid-19 and is receiving treatment for mild symptoms. This was disclosed in a statement by the South African presidency saying that Ramaphosa, who is fully vaccinated, began feeling unwell after he left a state memorial service for former deputy president F W de […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ghana will from Monday vaccinate returning citizens and residents against COVID-19 upon arrival at the airport, if they have not received shots. Ghana’s Health Service Director-General, Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, made the disclosure in a statement on Friday, amid concerns over low take-up of vaccination. He said that all Ghanaians leaving the country would […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The U.S. Treasury Department has imposed financial sanctions on Uganda’s chief of military intelligence, Major General Abel Kandiho, over alleged human rights abuses committed under his watch. Uganda’s military said it was disappointed by the decision and would seek clarification from Washington, for whom Kampala has been a security partner against militancy […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A police officer in Nairobi has allegedly killed six people, including his wife, before finally turning the gun on himself early on Tuesday. According to police, security forces became aware something was amiss after a loud noise was heard in the officer’s apartment followed by the sound of gunfire. Armed with an […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Thousands of The Gambian citizens have taken to the streets in protest after the December 4 presidential election result. The election, contested by six candidates, was won by the incumbent president, Adama Barrow. Mr Barrow, who contested the election under the flagship of the National People’s Party (NPP), polled 457, 519 votes […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Kingsley Moghalu, has said African countries including Nigeria and South Africa should issue reciprocal travel restrictions on the United Kingdom, and other Western nations that have placed Nigeria on red list due to the Omicron COVID-19 variant. Reacting, Moghalu wrote, “Nigeria and […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The United States “strongly condemns” a militant attack on a bus in central Mali that killed at least 31 people and wounded 17, the State Department said on Sunday. Unidentified gunmen on Friday opened fire on the bus as it traveled from the village of Songho to a market in Bandiagara, 6 […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – With many African countries struggling from the shackles of debt servicing amid the downward economic trend occasioned by COVID-19, a ‘New Deal’ worth 7.1 trillion dollars has been suggested as the only solution. This was the position of Mr Antonio Pedro, Deputy Executive Secretary, Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) at the ongoing […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Senegal’s transport unions went on open-ended strike Friday over alleged police harassment and illicit competition, paralysing the capital Dakar and other regions. Many people were unable to go to work or send their children to school in the capital without buses or taxis to take them, AFP journalists and witnesses said. Patients […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The African Union’s health watchdog on Thursday appealed for calm over Omicron, the new, heavily mutated Covid-19 variant which has prompted many governments to impose new restrictions. The new variant was first reported to the World Health Organization by South Africa a week ago and has quickly shown up across continents, deepening […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) prevalence rate of infection in Somalia has been dropping over the last 14 years, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Wednesday. Citing periodic surveys conducted, the WHO warned that in spite of the general decline in HIV prevalence across Somalia, there were locations such as Garowe and […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Tanzanian tourism authorities has said that they were at the final preparations to start a process of introducing cable car on Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest mountain. Mary Masanja, the Deputy Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism, said the process to introduce the cable car was on the mountain is on track and […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The South African rand retreated early on Tuesday as caution lingered in markets after the discovery of a Coronavirus (COVID-19) variant that is spreading in the country and globally. At 0625 GMT, the rand traded at 16.2150 against the dollar, 0.46 per cent weaker than its previous close. On Friday the currency […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Botswana said on Monday that travel bans imposed against southern African countries over the presence of the new Omicron variant of COVID-19 hurt Botswana’s tourism sector. Minister of Environment, Natural Resources Conservation and Tourism, Philda Kereng, said the ban came just as the country prepared for its summer vacation season. “The restrictions […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Rwanda has temporarily suspended direct flights to southern African countries due to concerns over the new COVID-19 variant, Omicron. This was contained in cabinet communique issued by the office of the prime minister on Monday. The decision was taken after an extraordinary cabinet meeting on Rwanda’s response to the Omicron variant chaired […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Africa’s global bank, United Bank for Africa, through its UBA Foundation has been spreading joy across Africa for many years as they continue to give back to the underprivileged in the communities in which they operate. At the UBA Foundation gardens in Lagos where the bank is headquartered, a lights up ceremony […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National President of Nigeria Society of Chemical Engineers (NSCh) has revealed that Dangote Oil Refining Company will be the highest employer of chemical engineers in the country when the refinery comes on stream. The Society’s National President, Engr. Saidu A. Muhammed, disclosed this during the NSCh’s visit/tour of the Dangote Refinery […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Mauritius will suspend all commercial passenger flights from South Africa from Nov. 28 due to the new coronavirus variant Omicron, its foreign affairs ministry said on Saturday. A ministry statement also said any passengers who have been physically present in South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho, Botswana, Eswatini, and Zimbabwe will be denied entry […]
