Senegal: Senegal's New Leader Announces Audit of Oil, Gas and Mining Sectors
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April 4, 2024, 3:33 PM
[RFI] In his first speech to the nation since his election as president of Senegal, Bassirou Diomaye Faye said one of his first policy moves would be to audit the country's oil, gas and mining sectors to root out corruption.
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Africa: HRW Calls for UN, AU to Suspend Ethiopian Troops From Peacekeeping Missions
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April 4, 2024, 10:45 AM
[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- Human Rights Watch (HRW) is calling upon the United Nations and the African Union to contemplate the suspension of fresh deployments of the Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) into international peacekeeping operations.
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Ethiopia: Somalia Sends Back Ethiopia's Ambassador, Closes Consulates in Puntland, Somaliland
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April 4, 2024, 3:42 PM
[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- The government of Somalia asked Ethiopia's Ambassador to Somalia Muktar Mohamed Ware to return back to Addis Abeba for consultation and closed Ethiopia's consulate offices in Hargeisa, the capital city of Somaliland, and in the semi-autonomous Puntland state.
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Somalia: Somali Govt Gives Ethiopia Envoy 72 Hours, Summons Its Envoy From Addis
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April 4, 2024, 3:40 PM
[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Somalia issued an official statement confirming Ethiopia's Ambassador Muktar Mohamed Ware "has been informed to depart from Somalia within the next 72 hours."
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Kenya: Courts Suffer System Outage, Urgent Matters to Be Filed By Mail
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April 4, 2024, 3:32 PM
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The Judiciary has announced an intermittent system outage on the E-filing portal, affecting the electronic filing of cases.
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Somalia: Somalia Expels Ethiopian Ambassador As Tensions Rise Over Port Deal
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April 4, 2024, 3:16 PM
[Shabelle] Mogadishu -- In a significant escalation of tensions between Somalia and Ethiopia, Somalia has sent back the Ethiopian ambassador and closed two consulates in the semi-autonomous region of Puntland and another in the breakaway region of Somaliland.
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Uganda: We'll Not Wait for 2026 to Remove Museveni - Besigye
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April 4, 2024, 3:04 PM
[Nile Post] Opposition stalwart Kizza Besigye has told the people of Mbabrara that his plans are not to wait for 2026 elections to remove President Museveni and the NRM government from power.
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Uganda: Petroleum Authority Says Negative Propaganda Hurts Uganda's Oil Sector
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April 4, 2024, 3:02 PM
[Nile Post] The Petroleum Authority of Uganda has decried continued false propaganda on oil and gas sector that they said is making it hard to attract investors.
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Nigeria: Impacting Agricultural Development in Nigeria: The WOFAN Story
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April 2, 2024, 4:10 PM
[Mastercard Foundation] This story is about supporting women and young people in rural Nigeria with the knowledge and skills needed to thrive in agriculture. It's dubbed ''the WOFAN story,'' and it began in 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown threatened to bring the activities of smallholder farmers and processors to a standstill.
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Nigeria: Failure to Arraign Binance Officials in Tax Evasion, Money Laundering Cases
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April 4, 2024, 2:08 PM
[Premium Times] Binance and its two officials - Tigran Gambaryan and Nadeem Anjarwalla - were scheduled to be arraigned before the Federal High Court in Abuja on five counts of money laundering and tax evasion on Thursday.
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Kenya: Health Crisis Persists in Kenya As Doctors Reject Govt Offer
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April 4, 2024, 10:52 AM
[Capital FM] Nairiobi -- The health crisis will persist in Kenya after doctors rejected a government offer aimed at ending two-week-long strike that has severely disrupted health services.
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Sierra Leone: Will Sierra Leone's Leaders Clamp Down On Kush?
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April 4, 2024, 9:54 AM
[DW] As the polydrug kush -- also known as K2 -- increasingly threatens the public health of young Sierra Leoneans, religious and development leaders want the government to take the crisis more seriously.
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South Africa: Former Speaker Arrives at Police Station to Surrender
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April 4, 2024, 7:17 AM
[allAfrica] Former speaker of the National Assembly Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula surrendered herself to officials from the Investigating Directorate at the Lyttelton Police Station in Centurion on Thursday morning, following her sudden resignation the previous night, reports News24.
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Ethiopia: Military Executes Dozens in Amhara Region
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April 4, 2024, 6:38 AM
[HRW] UN Inquiry Urgently Needed; End Impunity for Abusive Commanders
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South Africa: Police Kill Five Suspected Cash-In-Transit Robbers in Shootout - South African News Briefs - April 4, 2024
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April 4, 2024, 5:30 AM
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South Africa: Toddlers Electrocuted By Illegal Electrical Wires
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April 4, 2024, 3:37 PM
[GroundUp] Thembelihle Ndlela and Kwenzakonke Gazu, both aged 3, were playing near their homes in Zwelisha, north of Durban, on Wednesday
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Kenya: MPs Want Answers From Linturi in Raging Fake Fertilizer Scandal, Summons Issued
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April 4, 2024, 3:37 PM
[Capital FM] NAIROBI, Kenya - Members of the National Assembly are intensifying efforts to uncover the truth behind the fake fertilizer scandal by summoning high-ranking officials from the Ministry of Agriculture.
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Africa: World Data Lab and the Mastercard Foundation Announce Launch of the Africa Youth Employment Clock
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April 2, 2024, 4:10 PM
[Mastercard Foundation] World Data Lab (WDL), in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation, is pleased to announce the Kenya launch of the Africa Youth Employment Clock on 19 March, 2024.
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Nigeria: How New Gas Price Template for Strategic Sectors Will Benefit Nigerians
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April 4, 2024, 3:35 PM
[Premium Times] On Easter Monday, the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority announced the establishment of the year 2024 Domestic Base Price and applicable wholesale price on natural gas for the strategic sectors.
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Namibia: Rising Fuel Can Flame Inflation
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April 4, 2024, 3:18 PM
[New Era] Figures from the mines and energy ministry show that during March 2024, global petrol prices increased by 2.7% while international prices for diesel 50ppm decreased by 2.64% ,and diesel 10ppm decreased by 2.46%. On top of this, the exchange rate figures for 1 to 25 March indicated a 0.93% appreciation of the Namibia dollar against the United States dollar.
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Africa: Penultimate Day of Newspace Africa Addresses African Space Programs
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April 4, 2024, 3:10 PM
[ANGOP] Luanda -- The penultimate day of the 11th edition of NewSpace Africa (African Space Conference 2024) has two panels dedicated to updating African space programs, the event's spokesperson, Gilberto Gomes, said Thursday in Luanda.
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Nigeria: Why We Detained Bobrisky - EFCC
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April 4, 2024, 3:07 PM
[Premium Times] The EFCC has shared more details of popular crossdresser Idris Okuneye, known as Bobrisky's arrest and detention.
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South Africa: One in Four People With HIV Not On Treatment, According to New Estimates
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April 4, 2024, 2:11 PM
[spotlight] Despite South Africa's impressive HIV testing figures, a subset of people start taking antiretroviral therapy far later than is ideal for their health, shows new data from the leading mathematical model of HIV in the country. These new estimates present a synthesis of the best sources of data of HIV in the country as it factors in numbers from multiple sources.
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Congo-Kinshasa: New Islamist Attacks in the East of the Country - 30,000 Students Cannot Go to School Due to Insecurity
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April 4, 2024, 2:10 PM
[Agenzia Fides] Kinshasa -- At least 10 people were killed and several buildings burned down in an attack by ADF militants in the rural municipality of Mangina, in the Beni area, in the province of North Kivu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, on the night of April 3rd. The buildings destroyed by the attackers include the local health center, which was partially set on fire, as well as a dozen houses and commercial buildings.
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Nigeria: Anti-Graft Body Detains Popular Crossdresser
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April 4, 2024, 11:14 AM
[Premium Times] The EFCC has detained popular crossdresser Idris Okuneye, known as Bobrisky.
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Zimbabwe: U.S.$103m Windfall for Tobacco Farmers, As U.S.$4, 99 Price Ceiling Breached
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April 4, 2024, 10:21 AM
[The Herald] FARMERS' earnings from tobacco sales continue on an upward trajectory recording a 75 percent increase from US$59 million earned by Day 13 in the 2023 marketing season to US$103 million during the same period this year.
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Africa: Closing the Gender Gap in STEM Education in Africa
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April 2, 2024, 4:10 PM
[Mastercard Foundation] Strong local partnerships have a role to play
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Nigeria: Telecoms Union Suspends Planned Strike
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April 4, 2024, 10:01 AM
[Vanguard] The Private Telecommunications and Communications Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PTECSSAN) has suspended its planned strike, which was to begin on Thursday.
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Zimbabwe: MPs Raise Concerns Over GMO Grain Imports As Hunger Stalks Zimbabweans
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April 4, 2024, 8:36 AM
[New Zimbabwe] Parliamentarians on Wednesday questioned if genetically modified organisms (GMO) maize imports would be allowed in the country due to the El Nino induced drought in the Southern African region.
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South Africa: Zimbabweans Complain of Home Affairs Incompetence
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April 4, 2024, 7:24 AM
[GroundUp] Numerous waiver letters contain incorrect information
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Africa: Global Leaders to Gather in Geneva, Aiming to Raise $1 Billion to Alleviate Ethiopia's Humanitarian Crisis
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April 4, 2024, 3:41 PM
[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- Senior officials from various countries and international organizations will convene in Geneva on 16 April, 2024 for a high-level pledging event aimed at addressing the humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia.
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South Africa: Criminal Complaint Lodged Against Benjamin Rattle, a South African Serving in the Israeli Military
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April 4, 2024, 3:39 PM
[GroundUp] Rattle's social media posts appear to show him standing in front of destroyed buildings and rubble in Gaza
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South Africa: Pit Toilet Eradication Deadline Missed By Limpopo Education Department
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April 4, 2024, 3:38 PM
[GroundUp] But department says it's 80% of the way there
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