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Tanzania’s President Magufuli ‘catches Covid-19’ after denial

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Tanzania’s President John Magufuli is on admission at a Kenyan hospital undergoing medical treatment for Covid-19. Opposition leader Tundu Lissu revealed in an interview with the BBC that Magufuli had coronavirus and a cardiac arrest. Sources at the hospital he is currently on admission at said the Tanzanian leader had breathing challenges. Magufuli was flown to the Nairobi hospital this… Read More
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Tanzania: Has Magufuli been hospitalized amid Covid-19 denial?

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– – Tanzanian President John Magufuli is reported to be seriously ill with breathing challenges and has been hospitalized. Details are still scanty about his condition but those familiar with the development say he contracted Covid-19. The President who was hoping to avoid hospitalization given his stance had to give in due to reported deteriorating health condition. Magufuli Pombe is… Read More
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At least 20 killed by suicide car bomb in Somalia

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– – At least 20 people were killed and 30 wounded by a suicide car bomb just outside a restaurant near the port in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu late on Friday, an emergency services official said. The blast sent plumes of smoke into the sky and triggered gunfire, witnesses and state-owned media reported. “So far we have carried 20 dead people… Read More
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Plane crash kills 10 people in South Sudan

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– – At least ten people have died in a plane crash in South Sudan. The incident occurred in the eastern Jonglei State, at Pieri airstrip shortly after takeoff while heading to the capital, Juba. A team of investigators is being sent to the site to conduct preliminary investigations. The plane belonged to a local aviation company, the South Supreme Airlines.… Read More
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Plane crash kills 10 people in South Sudan

Elwin Mandowa, , , , ,
– – At least ten people have died in a plane crash in South Sudan. The incident occurred in the eastern Jonglei State, at Pieri airstrip shortly after takeoff while heading to the capital, Juba. A team of investigators is being sent to the site to conduct preliminary investigations. The plane belonged to a local aviation company, the South Supreme Airlines.… Read More
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Uganda: Bobi Wine withdraws election result challenge

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– – Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine on Monday announced that he was withdrawing a court case challenging last month’s presidential election results. Incumbent President Yoweri Museveni was declared winner of that election but Wine alleges that the poll was characterized by fraud and irregularities. Since filing the case in court, the opposition politician whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi… Read More
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Tanzania’s President calls for prayer and fasting to defeat Covid-19

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– – Tanzania’s President John Magufuli has called for three days of prayer and fasting to defeat Covid-19. Magufuli last year declared that Covid-19 was satanic and refused to order vaccines for his citizens. According to Magufuli the vaccines could harm the population, but he didn’t provide any evidence to back that claim. He said Tanzania had defeated Covid-19 last… Read More
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Kenyan woman ‘ridiculed’ for marrying disabled man

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– – A Kenyan woman, Susan Njogu Eling has spoken about how she was ridiculed for her decision to marry a disabled Australian man. Susan Njogu Eling three years ago married Philip Eling who was born with muscular dystrophy – a disease that causes progressive weakness and loss of muscle mass. Susan told the BBC that she was called a… Read More
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Uganda: Police arrest activists for flogging Museveni’s effigy

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– – Two people have been arrested by the Ugandan Police for flogging an effigy of President Yoweri Museveni. The two men, Luta Ferdinand Male and Nsereko Asharf, described themselves to police as activists of a social movement. They flogged the effigy on a busy road in the capital, Kampala as they accused the president of malpractice in the January elections.… Read More
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Ugandan army pilot dies in helicopter crash after take-off

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– – Ugandans have been paying tribute to a young female army pilot who died in a helicopter crash on Thursday. Uganda’s army confirmed the death of the pilot, identified as Captain Caroline Busingye in the crash after take-off near Entebbe. According to the Uganda People’s Defence Force (UPDF) spokeswoman Brig Flavia Byekwaso, the incident happened during a flight training… Read More