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The FIFA Arab Cup Qatar 2021 knockout phase is expected to the place on Friday December 10, at the Education City Stadium in Al Rayyan with two contrasting, although equally important, fixtures. Ahead of the match, Group B winners Tunisia, on Thursday appeared to be preparing hard to face Group A runners-up Oman for the first time in a competitive… Read More

A section of the Tanzanian public have expressed satisfaction at the current state of the country’s affairs. They made this declaration on the sidelines of the country’s 60 years independence celebration parade in Dar es Salaam on Thursday. “We have come a long way and we would like to thank our country for being peaceful ever since the attainment of… Read More

Fear, tension and anxiety can best describe the emotions of residents here at Lalibela since August when a column of haggard-looking rebels entered Lalibela during an afternoon prayer service, prompting worshippers to cry out “God save our city!” Indeed God came through for them through Father Tsige. “With the help of our Father Tsige, not a single bullet was fired… Read More

Access to the laboratory is strictly limited, for the risk of accidental infection is just too high. Here, technicians at whirring machines analyze 18,000 PCR tests a day, looking for signatures of coronavirus. Their work is so precise that just a handful of samples helped the team to discover Omicron — the new virus variant that has triggered global fears… Read More

UN peacekeepers in DR Congo have signed an agreement with the country’s armed forces to facilitate joint operations against armed groups troubling the east of the vast nation. The “guidelines for joint operations” set down procedures for enabling operations by the UN mission MONUSCO and the FARDC, as the Congolese army is known, they said. The accord was signed at… Read More

One person died and 18 others were injured including two leading figures from Tunisia’s Islamist-inspired Ennahdha party in a fire at its headquarters Thursday, authorities and party members said. Ennahdha said on Facebook that one of its “activists”, a former receptionist born in 1970, had died in the blaze. The interior ministry said his “charred” body had been found in… Read More

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari inaugurated recently acquired warships and a seaward defense boat built locally by naval engineers at the naval dockyard in Lagos to bolster the Navy’s efforts in the fight against maritime criminality in the Gulf of Guinea region. Speaking at the event, President Buhari said the new inductions to the Naval fleet would boost their capability in… Read More

In this new episode of Business Africa, we explore the african space sector with our guest Sékou Ouedraogo, aeronautical engineer and president of AASO, the African Aeronautics & Space Organization. Telecommunications, education, or even help with agriculture … when satellites support the development of Africa. More and more countries are getting into space, and the economic benefits are considerable. Nigeria’s… Read More

The death of a 12-year-old schoolboy, in Lagos Nigeria’s commercial capital city, is generating reactions in Africa’s most populous nation. Sylvester Oromoni Jnr, a Junior Secondary School JSS 2, student of Dowen College, Lagos southwest Nigeria died under controversial circumstances. The school authorities claim Sylvester sustained injuries while playing football, but his family says he was instead tortured by school… Read More

A South Africa health official warned Wednesday that they are seeing a spike in hospital admissions in the country, despite suggestions that the new omicron variant could be milder. Dr Waasila Jassat, who monitors the week on week increases in hospitalization, said the transmissibility of the variant meant that even though “the percentage of cases admitted” to hospital was relatively… Read More