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Month: July 2019

Africa 

DRC president agrees to split key cabinet posts with Kabila’s coalition

Village Reporter
Congo President Felix Tshisekedi and his predecessor Joseph Kabila reached an agreement on Friday to divide the main security and economic cabinet posts roughly evenly between their two camps, three sources familiar with the negotiations said. Kabila’s FCC and Tshisekedi’s CACH coalitions both announced publicly that an agreement had been reached after six months of negotiations over the formation of… Read More
Democratic republic Of Congo 

AHF Praises World Bank for $300M to Fight Ebola in DRC

Global Author
KAMPALA, UGANDA (July 25, 2019) AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) today praised leaders at the World Bank for quickly committing $300 million in aid to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for its efforts to contain and eliminate an outbreak of Ebola in that country that has claimed nearly 1,700 lives. As of July 12, there have been 2,477 Ebola cases in the… Read More
Africa Southern Africa World Zimbabwe 

Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe dresses like a ‘rapper’

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There are tons of reactions on social media after former President of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe was seen dressed like an American hip-pop ‘rapper’. The 95 year old former leader can be seen in a picture circulating on social media sitting in a wheelchair. Posing with his son for a photograph moment on Friday, Mugabe was dressed in an Adidas truck… Read More
Africa Featured Liberia Nigeria News and Headlines West Africa World 

Liberia: Weah honors Buhari with national award

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Liberia’s President George Weah has conferred the country’s highest national honors on Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari. President Buhari was in Liberia as Special Guest of Honor at the country’s 172nd Independence Anniversary on Friday. Buhari’s media aide Garba Shehu said in a statement that his boss received “The Grand Cordon of the Knighthood of Venerable Order of the Pioneers.” “The… Read More
Africa Featured Nigeria News and Headlines West Africa World 

Nigerian student drowns in UK’s Thames River

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A 23-year old Nigerian-born student living in the UK, Jonathan Adebanjo has reportedly drowned in the Thames River. Adebanjo, an art student was studying at Camberwell College of Arts, London. He was reported missing while swimming with friends at Shadwell Basin on Tuesday. Adebanjo is among three persons reported missing after drowning in similar manner. Rescuers pulled his body from… Read More
Development Health Advice 

UN sees progress in fight against tobacco, warns more action needed to help people quit deadly product

Global Author
With five billion people today – four times more people than a decade ago – living in countries that have introduced smoking bans, graphic warnings on packaging and other effective tobacco control measures, many governments are making progress in the fight against tobacco.   But a new WHO report out on Friday shows many countries are still not adequately implementing policies, including helping… Read More
OP-ED Opinions 

The ‘Bow And Go’ Senate Of Ahmad Lawan By Fredrick Nwabufo

Village Reporter
Ahmad Lawan has been dutiful in his obligation of inking ‘’rubber stamp’’ on the senate. Though he had said the senate, which he leads, would not dissolve into the executive as an appendage; his actions have betrayed this gasconade. Soon after he became senate president, Lawan assumed the ‘’volunteer role of unofficial spokesman’’ of President Buhari and saddled himself with ‘’interpreting… Read More
Africa Movies West Africa World 

SURVIVORS: The Sierra Leonean film nominated for an Emmy

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On September 24, 2019 Sierra Leonean filmmakers who produced the documentary Survivors will be hoping to win an Emmy Award. The Survivors was produced to tell the story of resilience and hope in the time of the deadly Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone. On Thursday the film was among several others nominated for The News & Documentary Emmy Awards to… Read More
Africa Business East Africa World 

Tanzania is building fourth largest hydro dam in Africa

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Tanzania is starting the process of building the fourth largest hydro dam in Africa and the ninth largest in the world. Tanzanian President John Magufuli is to lay the foundation stone for the construction of Stiegler’s Gorge hydroelectric power project. The project according to government officials will cost $3 billion. The 2,115 megawatts hydroelectric dam when completed will produce 5,920GWh… Read More
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