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  • Uganda Faces World’s Fastest Growing Refugee Crisis, EU Sends Aid

    UGANDA, 2017/07/09 Uganda is presently facing the world’s fastest growing refugee crisis, due to a continuous and unprecedented influx of people fleeing conflict in neighbouring South Sudan part others. The country is presently hosting over 1.27 million refugees and asylum seekers. “To help Uganda transaction with this unprecedented situation and support the majority vulnerable refugees, the European Commission has today announced €85 million in humanitarian aid and longer term development assistance. A lot of refugees have fled conflict in South Sudan, seeking sanctuary from violence, hatred and hunger. Uganda’s example of helping vulnerable people cope with displacement is an example for the whole region and the world. However, no country can transaction with such a high number of refugees on its own. The EU funding announced today will help our humanitarian partners working in Uganda bring some relief to those who have lost everything,” said Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management Christos Stylianides.

  • Malawi Minister Says Deported Dubious Indian Investor Would Not Be Allowed to Come Back

    MALAWI, 2017/07/07 Minister of Home Affairs and Internal Security Grace Chiumia has said a dubious Indian investor who was deported will not be allowed approaching back. The Department of Immigration and Citizenship Services in May deported Chandrashaker Additional, who owes the public tax collector K20 million, and had as well racially insulted Police officers at the court calling them "poor plebs".

  • Malawi: Independence Day Stampede Kills 8

    MALAWI, 2017/07/07 Eight people are said to have died while at dozens others are feared to be injured in a stampede that has happened at Bingu National Stadium in Lilongwe, SABC News' Mweli Masilela has reported. According to the statement, seven of the fatalities include children, some as young as six years old.

  • ‘After getting pregnant, you are done’: no more school for Tanzania's mums-to-be

    TANZANIA, 2017/07/02 Furious campaigners say President John Magufuli is out of touch with public opinion next he endorses law allowing national schools to expel young mothers A coalition of human rights groups has condemned as unconstitutional the Tanzanian president’s comments that pregnant girls should be banned from school. President John Magufuli was widely criticised by campaigners next he told a rally last week: “As long as I am president … no pregnant student will be allowed to return to school … Next getting pregnant, you are done.”

  • Ghanaians take aim at corruption

    GHANA, 2017/07/01 Ghana’s government is facing growing calls to keep its promises after it won elections on a pledge to stamp out corruption. President Nana Akufo-Addo and his administration have in recent weeks seen protesters take to the streets to raise awareness about the issue. In May, hundreds marched on the Economic and Organised Crime Office in the capital Accra with a petition calling for the arrest and prosecution of offenders, and for stolen money to be recovered.

  • Botswana’s former president Ketumile Masire dies

    BOTSWANA, 2017/07/01 Botswana’s former president Sir Ketumile Masire, the southern African country’s second post-independence leader and who led efforts to bring peace to Mozambique, has died aged 91, an aide said on Friday. Masire had been heavily involved in efforts to end violence between Mozambique’s government and the major opposition Renamo party in his role as co-chair of an international group of mediators.

  • Namibia, SA mourns anti-apartheid icon

    NAMIBIA, 2017/06/20 The death of revered Namibian liberation icon, Andimba Toivo Ya Toivo, has drawn unparalleled attention and emotion particularly part Namibians and South Africans, with an outpouring of condolences to bid farewell to an anti-apartheid activist and political prisoner who was incarcerated on Robben Island together with the late Nelson Mandela and a lot of others. Ya Toivo died on 9 June 2017 at his home in Windhoek. He was 92.

  • Ethiopia’s online visa application

    ETHIOPIA, 2017/06/15 Ethiopia on June 12, 2017 announced an online visa application process to relieve visa processes to travellers to that country, but only one African country out of the 54, is eligible to use the platform with two others exempt, because these two nations have visa exempt agreements with Ethiopia. Out of the 39 nations eligible to apply for visa online, inclunding North Korea, some Western and Latin American nations, the only African country eligible to apply for an e-visa is South Africa. The other two African nations on the inventory, Kenya and Djibouti, have visa exempt deals with Ethiopia.

  • Kenya: Serem Rejects Salary Deal As Nurses Strike Hits Hospitals

    KENYA, 2017/06/07 One person died next he was turned away from a hospital on Monday, as the health sector was thrown into a crisis next the Salaries and Remuneration Commission rejected a new pay agreement for nurses, which had been negotiated by the Council of Governors. Nurses in public hospitals have downed their tool to turmoil poor salaries. The additional than 25,000 nurses are demanding the implementation of a collective bargaining agreement (CBA) signed between their union and the Council of Governors (CoG).

  • Namibia: Poverty Still a Challenge

    NAMIBIA, 2017/06/06 President Hage Geingob said despite evolution having been made, poverty levels remained a major national challenge. Geingob said this yesterday at the official launch of the fifth National Development Plan (NDP5) at National Home, adding that development was defined by the economic, political and social well-being of citizens. "The problem of poverty continues to be a challenge. We have sought to provide relief in crises, but we need to find a durable solution that helps everyone achieve the kind of lives they have reason to price," he said, adding that poverty eradication remained the focus of his government.
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