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Zambia’s President doing well after collapsing at public event

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– – Zambia’s President Edgar Lungu has assured citizens that he is well after collapsing while attending a public event. He was presiding over the national defence day on Sunday when “he experienced sudden dizziness” in the capital, Lusaka. In a statement, the Secretary to the Cabinet Simon Miti indicated that the president “is well and has continued to discharge his… Read More
Africa Featured West Africa World 

African countries urged to develop child online protection policies

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– – Speakers at the just ended first ever Africa Week of Action for Child Online Protection (AWA4COP) symposium have urged African countries to take seriously the issue of protecting children online. The symposium was part of the inaugural campaign aimed at urging African countries to consider Child Online Protection Guidelines to develop inclusive, multi-stakeholder national strategies for online child… Read More
Africa Central Africa World 

Why Patrice Lumumba’s tooth is yet to return to DR Congo

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In September 2020, the family of the Congolese independence hero Patrice Lumumba received news of taking in the tooth taken from his corpse. A court in Belgium had ruled that the tooth should be returned to Lumumba’s family. Lumumba’s tooth was believed to have been taken by a Belgian policeman who was helping to dispose of the body. The tooth was… Read More
Africa Ghana West Africa World 

21 LGBT activists arrested in Ghana granted bail by court

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– – A high Court in Ghana on Friday granted bail to some 21 activists of Lesbians, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender society. They have been denied bail multiple times since their arrest on May 20, 2021 at a meeting in Ghana’s Volta region. The UN asked the government of Ghana to release the suspects including 16 females and 5 males,… Read More
Africa Ghana West Africa World 

Ghana’s Green project targets planting over 5 million trees

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– – Ghana on Friday launched a green project called Green Ghana Day aimed at getting citizens to plant over 5 million trees. The project is expected to mobilize efforts to preserve and protect the country’s forest cover and the environment. Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo lead the event on Friday which was replicated across the country. Friday, 11th June, 2021… Read More
Africa Ghana West Africa World 

Ghana’s ‘inflated’ Covid-19 vaccine price sparks calls for probe

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– – Ghana’s minority lawmakers and anti-corruption campaigners are demanding a probe into the award of a contract for the supply of Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccines. It follows a publication by a Norwegian newspaper that the government of Ghana bought the vaccines at a price which is 90 percent more than the factory price. The report revealed that the government… Read More
Europe 

Security Council urged to bring multilateralism ‘alive’, to tackle serious global challenges 

Village Reporter
Josep Borrell, the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, said that without “global cooperation based on agreed rules” we risk “the law of the jungle, where problems don’t get solved”.  “Every day we see the cost of the absence of multilateral action: reduced access to vaccines, insufficient climate action, peace and security crises that fester”, he said.   Every… Read More
Africa Business East Africa World 

IMF says Tanzania must publish Covid-19 data to get $574 mln loan

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– – The International Monetary Fund has asked Tanzania to publish data on the spread of Covid-19 before getting approval for a $574 million emergency loan. Since last year May, Tanzania has not published any data on the extend of spread of Covid-19. The country’s previous president, John Magufuli was a critic and doubter of the pandemic and stopped the… Read More
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