January 30, 2020

Live Update: Trump’s Impeachment Trial Continues Today

The Senate just reconvened for the second of two days of senator questioning at President Trump’s impeachment trial. The Senators began their second and final day of questions for both the Democratic House managers and the defense team in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial.

The questions alternate between Republicans and Democrats and must be directed to either the House managers or White House defense counsel.

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Questions must be submitted to Chief Justice John Roberts, who will read them aloud to the chamber. Senators themselves cannot speak.

Multiple senators can join …

If It Takes Crisis To Win Elections, We Need More Crisis

The All Progressives Congress (APC) National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, has boasted that the speculated crises rocking the ruling party did not reflect in the party’s electoral victories in the polls conducted so far.

The APC boss, who dropped the hint while playing host to Kano State chapter of the party recently, also joked that if a crisis is what it takes to win elections, he won’t mind the continuation of more crises.

While addressing a delegation led by the Governor of Kano State, Umar Ganduje, Oshiomhole quipped: “On my part, the victories we recorded especially in this rerun election is …

FG Places $3,500 Fine On Airlines Who Disobey COVID Protocols

Mozambique: Emirates Plans To Fly To Maputo

Maputo — Emirates Airlines will begin scheduled flights to Mozambique in June, according to the chairperson of the Mozambican Civil Aviation Institute (IACM), Joao de Abreu.

Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, after a visit to the IACM by the new Transport Minister, Janfar Abdulai, Abreu said the go-ahead for Emirates flights to Maputo had been given after the company had completed a commercial viability study.

Abreu said that Emirates plans to fly from Dubai to the Botswana capital, Gaborone, via Maputo.

“They have already asked us for authorisation to start operations in Mozambique”, he added. “We sent them the requirements

Namibia Ups Coronavirus Surveillance Efforts

The ministry of health has intensified surveillance activities at all entry points into Namibia, and is in the process of equipping them with the necessary scanners to detect suspected cases of the coronavirus.

This measure is in response to the recent outbreak of the coronavirus (2019-nCoV) which, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO), has affected more than 6 000 people globally.

While the bulk of confirmed cases are in China, where the coronavirus was first detected in late December, most countries are implementing surveillance measures to curb the further spread of the disease.

Global Companies Ensnared in Angolan Corruption Case

As he faces charges of misusing more than $1 billion in state funds, the husband of Angolan billionaire Isabel dos Santos defended himself by pointing to the couple’s accounting firm. Sindika Dokolo said if people do not trust his version of events, they should just ask the renowned global accounting firm PwC, which handled the couple’s accounting and gave them tax advice.

“We’ve been working with only Triple-A partners, including our auditors ⁠— and our auditors, in this case, are PwC,” said Dokolo in a recent studio interview with VOA in Washington.

Isabel dos Santos, the daughter of former Angolan

Zimbabwe: VP Chiwenga Goes After Judge

Vice President Constantino Chiwenga has raised a complaint against Judge President George Chiweshe after the judgment in a child custody case was allegedly leaked to his estranged wife, Marry Mubaiwa, before being officially handed down in court.

Justice Chiweshe is the head of the High Court in Zimbabwe.

VP Chiwenga, through his lawyers — Manase & Manase Legal Practitioners — has written to Justice Chiweshe seeking an explanation as to why the judgment in the child custody case was leaked to Mubaiwa and a local newspaper, well before it was handed down in court.

Last Friday, the newspaper had banners

Five Killed In Somalia Hotel Attack

Somalia: Minnesota Men Who Joined al-Shabab Remorseful

 

More than a decade ago, some 20 young Somali-Americans shocked their families when they left behind jobs and schools and returned to their native Somalia to join jihadist group al-Shabab. Now at least two of them have defected, and say their deadly adventure ruined their future.

Ahmed Ali Omar and Abdulkadir Ali Abdi left al-Shabab 16 months ago, but are now hiding in the Somali capital, afraid of being hunted down by the group’s assassins.

In an exclusive interview the two men gave to the VOA Somali program Investigative Dossier, Omar says he would have been killed or

S’Africa: Immigrant Children Turned Away From Schools

The Department of Basic Education is ignoring a court order and Minister of Home Affairs instructions to enrol refugee children who do not have documents.

In July last year the Acting Director General of the Department of Basic Education, SG Padayachee, sent a circular to provincial education departments, schools, school principals and school governing bodies explaining that all children must be conditionally admitted to school while parents tried to get documents. This was confirmed in October by Minister of Home Affairs Aaron Motsoaledi in an interview with GroundUp. “Every child who needs to go to school must go,” he said.

Revolution

Sudan: Revolution Victims’ Families Appeal To U.S.

Khartoum — The committee of the victims’ families of the December revolution has appealed to the US congressional delegation led by Tibor Nagy, US Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of African Affairs, who are currently on an official visit to Sudan, to put more pressure on the transitional government to form special committees to investigate the crimes committed during the December revolution.

In a statement on Sunday during a meeting with the US delegation, the committee demanded that the immunity must be lifted from some military personnel suspected of being involved in the crimes committed during the revolution. During the …

Women

Elderly Black Women In South Africa Win Property Rights

 

Johannesburg — For black women married before 1988, the husband owned all matrimonial assets and could sell them without consulting his wife – until a landmark win this month overturned the law

Facing destitution when her marriage broke down, 72-year-old Agnes Sithole went to court to challenge a sexist law – and won not only a share of her husband’s property but a legal victory that will protect some 400,000 other black South African women.

Under South African law, married couples own all their assets jointly and both must consent to major transactions.

But for black women married prior

S’Sudan: Donors Tired Of Govt’s Failure To Serve People

The Trump administration’s top Africa diplomat lashed out at South Sudan’s rulers on Monday, and urged the country’s warring parties to defer agreement on “sticky issues” until after a transitional government is formed.

“The elites need to get to the point of serving their own people instead of their own selfish interests,” declared Mr Tibor Nagy, US assistant secretary of state for African affairs.

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“The international community is sick and tired and fed up with providing the government services that the government of South Sudan should be providing for its own people.”

Mr Nagy also warned that

Buhari

Buhari And Jonathan Meet Admist Resignation Call

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday met the former president Goodluck Jonathan at the Presidential Villa, Abuja report said. This meeting is happening as he was asked to resgn over the worsened security challenge in Nigeria.

The closed-door meeting is the second to be held between Buhari and Jonathan in the last four months. It will be recalled that both met on 10th October 2019. The reason or outcome of the current meeting is unknown as both have refused to speak to journalists after the meeting the report said.

According to report the former president was said to have arrived Buhari’s …