(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – FW de Klerk, South Africa’s last white president, died on Thursday aged 85, his foundation announced. De Klerk and South Africa’s first black president Nelson Mandela shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 for leading the “miracle” transition from white rule in the country. He died after a battle with cancer, his […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – UN agencies has raised alarm over the growing food crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), calling for an urgent scaling-up of assistance. The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) warned that without help, widespread and unabated food insecurity could worsen in the coming months. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari speaking at the opening plenary of the COP-26 climate change summit in Glasgow, Scotland stated that Africa is being cheated, oppressed and lied to by rich nations. President Buhari stated that despite the continent almost being non-emitters, adding that Africa is responsible for a mere five per cent of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Tunisian protesters angered by an authority’s decision to reopen a controlled landfill in the southern town of Agareb set fire to a police station on Tuesday, witnesses said. The escalation of the protest came a day after the death of a man caused by asphyxiation from gas fired by the police, according […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Mali said it regretted sanctions imposed by the West African regional bloc ECOWAS on some members of the ruling junta which staged two military coups in less than a year. Mali was rocked by coups in August 2020 and May 2021 and swathes of the vast desert nation country are not under […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Economic Community of West African States “has decided to sanction all those implicated in the delay” in organising elections set for February 27 in Mali, ECOWAS Commission President Jean-Claude Kassi Brou told AFP after a summit of the 15-nation group in the Ghanaian capital Accra. He said Mali had “officially written” […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gunmen seized at least two villages overnight in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo near the border with Uganda and Rwanda, a local official and an activist group said on Monday. Lt.-Col. Muhindo Luanzo, the assistant to the administrator of Rutshuru territory, blamed fighters from the M23, a rebel group that seized […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President George Weah has sent his condolences to President Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone and his citizens over the fuel tanker explosion that occurred on Nov. 5, in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Weah made this known in a statement issued by Mr Jarlawah Tonpo, Liberia’s Deputy Information Minister for Press and Public […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Liberian government has announced a total of $15,000 cash reward for any useful information for the arrest of perpetrators of recent high-profile murders in Monrovia. Mr Ledgerhood Rennie, Liberia’s Minister of Information and Culture disclosed this in a statement. According to Rennie, the Liberia National Police has named Christian Anderson and […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) with the support of the Robert Bosch Foundation is deploying €25,000 grant for local landscape restoration and conservation projects in the Sahel region of West Africa. The project which are located in Bawku (Ghana), Ibadan (Nigeria), Nkambe and Yaoundé (Cameroon), and Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso), are part of GLF’s […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Nepali peacekeeper serving in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has been named the recipient of the UN Woman Police Officer of the Year Award. Superintendent Sangya Malla serving with the UN mission in the country, MONUSCO, is Chief of its Police Health and Environment Unit, based in the capital, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Angolan private bank, Banco de Fomento Angola (BFA) on Saturday signed a financial agreement with a non-governmental organisation (NGO) worth 30 million Kwanzas ($50,000) to combat malaria. Anya Fedorova, Population Services International Angola representative, who spoke to the press said her organisation’s co-funding agreement with BFA was aimed at helping in fighting […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – At least 99 people were killed and more than 100 injured in the capital of Sierra Leone late on Friday when a fuel tanker exploded following a collision, local authorities said. The accident occurred in a busy street in the capital Freetown. According to eyewitnesses, “many people rushed to the tanker to […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A frontline international not-for-profit organization, WaterAid has called on world leaders to meet their $100 billion climate finance commitment sooner than 2023. The call is coming as WaterAid’s message to the international community in the ongoing 26th session of the United Nations (UN) Conference of Parties (COP26) holding in Glagow, United Kingdom […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The German Government has announced its plan to invest €700 million (810 million dollars) to support the phase-out of coal-fired power stations in South Africa. The funds are part of a new partnership with South Africa, which also includes Britain, the US, France and the European Union (EU). A total of 8.5 […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Britain said it had requested that the UN Human Rights Council convene an emergency session on Sudan following last week’s military coup. The request was sent to the president of the 47-member Geneva forum on behalf of 18 member states, more than the one-third required to convene a special session. It was […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – More than 500 Sierra Leoneans aged 16-35 gathered in the northern town of Magburaka for the country’s first national conference for the youth. The two-day event, with the theme of “Harnessing the Future of Sierra Leone through Investments in Youth”, is being held to set the pace for the youth to brainstorm […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Security forces shot dead three people during nationwide protests in Sudan on Saturday, a doctors committee said, as hundreds of thousands of people demanded the restoration of a civilian-led government after a military coup. In Khartoum, security forces used tear gas and gunfire to try to disperse a huge crowd after protesters […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The head coach of Sierra Leone’s women’s football team has been arrested over allegations of sexual harassment, a police officer said on Saturday. The officer, who requested anonymity, said police arrested head coach Abdulai Kaloga Bah on Friday and that he spent the night in detention in the capital Freetown. Bah was […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, has urged the military to show restraint and not to create any more victims as mass civil protests against the military coup planned for Saturday in Sudan. Guterres made the appeal while speaking to journalists in Rome on Friday, ahead of the weekend’s G20 Summit in the Italian […]
