(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Russian state commission (Roscosmos) has authorised the launch of a Soyuz-2.1, a rocket with a Soyuz MS-20 spacecraft, which will carry two Japanese space tourists. Roscosmos on Tuesday said Yusaku Maezawa and Yozo Hirano, along with famous Russian cosmonaut, Alexander Misurkin will leave for orbit on Wednesday. Roscosmos in a statement […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Mr Kim Young-Chae, Ambassador of Korea to Nigeria, has said that his country would provide US$12.4 million for the construction of solar mini-grids in Nigeria. Kim said this in his address at the “Stand-alone mini grid project” presentation ceremony, granted by the Korean Government, held in Abuja. Kim said, “The project to […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Protests broke out on Monday across Lebanon against deteriorating living conditions and collapse of the local currency, the National News Agency reported. The protesters were said to have blocked roads in the capital Beirut, Tripoli, Sidon, Zahle and in Mount Lebanon with burning tires and waste containers, preventing citizens from reaching their […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Japan on Monday said it would ban all new foreign arrivals from Tuesday, Kyodo news agency reported. The Japanese government had earlier said it was considering reviving a blanket ban on foreign arrivals due to concerns regarding the new Omicron variant of the coronavirus. Japan’s border restrictions were eased in early November, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Two individuals in Hong Kong, known to be infected with the new Omicron variant of COVID-19 have reportedly been discovered to be carrying a high viral load. The discovery prompted concern about how effective current vaccines will be against the variant. The pair took PCR tests that showed Ct values of 18 […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Sri Lankan court began the first of three trials connected to bombings that killed 270 people on the island in 2019, amidst appeals for greater accountability from victim support groups. In the trial, on Monday, former national police chief Pujith Jayasundara was charged with failing to act on repeated intelligence warnings […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – South Korea government policy coordination office on Thursday said the government was set to launch a formal discussion on whether to prohibit dog meat consumption or not. The decision follows President Moon Jae-in’s suggestion to review the controversial practice. The government will table the issue of how to proceed with social discussions […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Afghan Security forces raided an alleged hideout of the Islamic State (IS) in Kabul city and killed one militant, Inamullah Samangani, a Taliban official said in his twitter account on Thursday. “The security forces of the Islamic Emirate targeted a hideout of Daesh group in Sarai-e-Shamali locality of Khair Khana district on […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Moscow on Wednesday refuted allegations made by the West that Russia was using a gas issue as a political weapon in its dialogue with Moldova. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov refuted the allegations in an interview with Sputnik on Wednesday. “We noticed that some of our Western colleagues, including the noticeably more […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Bulgaria’s head of state would be decided in a runoff on Sunday, according to the country’s election commission. According to the final results of the first round on Nov. 14, Bulgaria’s incumbent President, Rumen Radev, received 49.42 per cent of the votes and would head to a runoff with Anastas Gerdjikov, who […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – One person was killed and six others including children were injured in a gas cylinder explosion in Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi on Wednesday, the police said. The incident happened inside a multi-storey building in Lyari area of Karachi, the provincial capital of southern Sindh province, police officials in the area […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Chinese authorities on Monday set the latest example of strict Coronavirus (COVID-19) measures when it sent several thousand students into quarantine. More than 10,000 students were required to stay in their dormitory rooms or go to quarantine hotels in the north-eastern city of Dalian. The authorities were reacting to an outbreak among […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – India’s Supreme Court on Monday orders authorities to shut offices in the capital and nearby cities amid hazardous air pollution. The court also permitted millions to work from home as officials seek ways to reduce the air pollution that led to the closure of schools. Authorities in New Delhi, has been battling […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – No fewer than 15 people have been wounded in an explosion inside a mosque in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Nangarhar, an official said on Friday. The Taliban’s local director of information and culture, Hanif Nangarhari, said the blast happened during Friday prayers in the province’s Spin Ghar district. Initial information indicated that […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Amid mounting humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, Education Cannot Wait (ECW), the United Nations global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises, has harped on the need for all the children to have access to quality education. The ECW said school should be reopened for all the children, particularly girls, adding they […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An Indian paramilitary soldier shot dead four of his colleagues and injured three more in the central Chhattisgarh state, authorities said on Monday. The shooter and the victims were from India’s Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and the incident took place at a camp in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district, some 400 kilometers (248 […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Two suspects in the mysterious killing of four women in Afghanistan’s northern Mazar-i-Sharif city have been arrested, the Taliban’s interior ministry spokesperson Qari Saeed Khosty said Saturday. The suspects had confessed during initial interrogation that they had invited the victims to a house before the killings, Khosty said, but declined to give […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Eighteen infants in Hanoi were mistakenly injected with Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine instead of other immunisation shots, but no adverse effects have been reported. The city’s health authority made the disclosure on Friday. The rare event occurred on Wednesday at the Yen Son Commune Medical Centre in the Quoc Oai District of Hanoi, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Fifteen people were killed and 10 others seriously injured when a passenger van fell into a ravine in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir on Wednesday, the Police said. Rizwan Younus, a policeman in the district, who was dispatched to the accident site, told Xinhua. He said the van carrying 25 people fell into a deep […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Indonesian president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has been diagnosed with prostate cancer and will receive treatment in the United States, his aides said on Tuesday. Yudhoyono, who served two terms from 2004-2014, is suffering from an early stage of the disease, said his spokesperson, Ossy Darmawan. “Mr SBY requests prayers that his […]
