January 2020

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

Mozambique: Emirates Plans To Fly To Maputo

January 30, 2020 1:49 pm

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

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Namibia Ups Coronavirus Surveillance Efforts

January 30, 2020 1:47 pm

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.

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Global Companies Ensnared in Angolan Corruption Case

January 30, 2020 1:47 pm

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

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Zimbabwe: VP Chiwenga Goes After Judge

January 30, 2020 1:47 pm

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

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Five Killed In Somalia Hotel Attack

Somalia: Minnesota Men Who Joined al-Shabab Remorseful

January 30, 2020 1:47 pm

 

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

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S’Africa: Immigrant Children Turned Away From Schools

January 30, 2020 1:46 pm

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.

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Revolution

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

January 30, 2020 1:46 pm

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

January 30, 2020 1:45 pm

 

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

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

January 30, 2020 1:44 pm

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

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Buhari

Buhari And Jonathan Meet Admist Resignation Call

January 30, 2020 12:17 pm

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 …

Insecurity: Buhari Meets Security Chiefs In Aso Rock

January 30, 2020 7:35 am
President Muhammadu Buhari is currently meeting with Security Chiefs at the Presidential Villa.

The meeting is coming few hours after Senate Minority Leader, Enyinnaya Abaribe called for the resignation of President Muhammadu Buhari.

Abaribe, while contributing to a debate on the deteriorating security situation in the country on the floor of the Senate yesterday, claimed that Buhari government had failed to proffer solutions to the high rate of insecurity across Nigeria.

Read Also: Nigeria, Jersey, US Sign To Recover $321m Abacha Loot

Service Chiefs at the meeting include, the Chief of Defense Staff, General Gabriel Olonisakin; Chief of Army Staff,

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coronavirus

Coronavirus: India Reports First Case

January 30, 2020 7:34 am
The Indian government on Thursday confirmed that a patient in Kerala State, Southern India had tested positive for novel coronavirus, the first case of the virus which originated in China and has so far killed 170.

“The patient was a student of Wuhan University in China.

“The patient is stable and in isolation at a hospital,’’ the government disclosed.

According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) senior Indian government official said bringing Indian nationals from Wuhan, the epicentre of the virus was not the best option due to the risk of infection but increased pressure from the citizens.

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