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AfricaEducationNewsInsecurity: Over 14,000 Schools Closed Down In West, Central Africa

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)September 6, 2024

Due to violence and insecurity that engulfed West and Central Africa, at least 14,000 schools have been forced to close down. The UN Aid Coordination Office explained that from Mali in the West to the Democratic Republic of Congo in the East at least 2.8 million children, including many who are displaced, had been left without access to education. The agency added that only around a quarter of children in affected areas had access to...

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AfricaNewsPoliticsJonathan Urges African Leaders To Prioritise Innovation, Technology To Achieve Food Security

Uzoamaka Ikezue (Staff Reporter)September 4, 2024

Former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has urged African leaders to prioritise innovation and technology to achieve food security. According to the former President, African leaders should prioritise innovation and technology as a means of achieving the four pillars of food security and making considerable progress in the fight against hunger and malnutrition on the continent. The former President stated this on Wednesday in Kigali, Rwanda at the ongoing Africa Food Systems Forum 2024 while presenting...

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AfricaCrime & SecurityNewsJailbreak: Over 120 Prisoners Killed In DR Congo

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)September 4, 2024

An attempted jail breakout was reported at a high-security prison in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, leading to the deaths of 129 people, the authorities said. Makala Prison, dating from the 1950s, has a capacity of 1,500 prisoners, but more than 14,000 inmates were being held there. Interior Minister Jacquemain Shabani Lukoo posted a video on X, around 24 hours after the attempted breakout, acknowledging the extent of the incident and...

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AfricaNewsPoliticsWest AfricaECOWAS Will Not Give Up on Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso – Tinubu

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)August 12, 2024

President Bola Tinubu has reiterated his commitment to persuading the military leaders of Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso to return to the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS. The military governments of Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso cut ties with ECOWAS earlier this year after the regional bloc imposed sanctions on them following coups in their countries. Despite this setback, President Tinubu, chairman of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government, remains...

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AfricaNewsPoliticsWest AfricaECOWAS To Persuade Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso To Return-Tinubu

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)August 11, 2024

President Bola Tinubu of Nigeria who is the Chairman of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government says ECOWAS will continue to persuade the military leaders of Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso to return their nations to the fold. President Tinubu, reaffirmed the position of the regional body at a meeting with ECOWAS Chiefs of Defense Staff on Friday in Abuja. “It is in our hearts to make sure that security is enhanced...

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AfricaNewsSoccerFormer-CAF President Hayatou Dies At 77

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)August 9, 2024

The FIFA President, Gianni Infantino, on Thursday, has announced the death of former President of the Confederation of African Football, Issa Hayatou Infantino wrote on his Instagram: “Saddened to hear of the passing of former CAF President, former FIFA President and interim FIFA Vice President and FIFA Council member, Issa Hayatou. “As a passionate sports fan and IOC member, he dedicated his life to sports administration and on behalf of FIFA, and condolences go to...

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AfricaNewsProtest: Ruto To Cut $1.39 Billion Government Spending

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)July 6, 2024

Kenyan President William Ruto is set to scrap a planned tax hike, due to nationwide protests that lasted for weeks. Ruto pledged on Friday to cut the cost of governance totaling 177 billion shillings ($1.39 billion) in the fiscal year that started in July. The government will also increase borrowing by about 169 billion shillings to cover the 346 billion shilling hole created by the decision to withdraw the finance bill that was the original...

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AfricaNewsVP Chilima and 9 Others Perish in Malawi Plane Disaster

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)June 12, 2024

Malawi’s Vice President, Saulos Chilima, and nine other passengers were killed when the plane they were travelling in crashed in the Chikangawa mountain range. The group was travelling to attend the funeral of a former government minister in the northern part of the country. The passengers included the former first lady, Shanil Dzimbiri, the ex-wife of former President Bakili Muluzi, and military officers. Pilot News earlier reported that the plane, a Malawi Defence Force aircraft,...

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AfricaNewsNigeriaMalawi Scrambles to Locate Missing Vice President and 9 Others After Plane Vanishes

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)June 11, 2024

An aircraft carrying Malawi’s Vice President, Saulos Chilima, and nine others has gone missing, according to a statement from the president’s office. The Malawi Defence Force aircraft “went off the radar” after taking off from the capital, Lilongwe, on Monday morning. The plane was expected to land at Mzuzu International Airport, in the country’s north, at 10:02 a.m. local time. However, air traffic control instructed the pilot to turn around due to bad weather and...

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AfricaECOWASNewsECOWAS Commissioner Faults Formation Of Alliance States in Fighting Terrorism

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)May 16, 2024

Ambassador Abdel Fatau Musah, the ECOWAS Commissioner of Political Affairs Peace and Security says Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso left the region to ally, which had caused set back to the regional counter Terrorism efforts, noted that creating an alliance of Sahelian states has complicated the fight against terrorism in the region. Ambassador Musah who stated this in Abuja at a stakeholder’s Engagement on Regional Defence and Security perspectives with the theme of reducing vulnerabilities...

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