FBI in Sudan to help probe assassination attempt

KHARTOUM, March 12 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A team from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has arrived in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, to help with enquiries into a failed assassination attempt against the prime minister.Abdalla Hamdok’s convoy was attacked with explosives and gunfire on Monday.It is not yet clear who…

Ivory Coast confirms first positive case of COVID-19

ABIDJAN, March 12 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Ivory Coast has recorded its first positive case of the flu-like Coronavirus (COVID-19).The case was reported in the capital Abidjan.The country becomes the eight in the region to record a case after Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Togo, Senegal, Cameroon, DR Congo and South Africa.The affected patient…

Fifa delays its Congress in Ethiopia because of coronavirus

Fifa’s Congress in Ethiopia has been delayed because of the coronavirus ZURICH, March 12 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Football’s world governing body Fifa has postponed its Congress in Ethiopia, scheduled to take place in June, by three months owing to the outbreak of the coronavirus. The Congress has been set to take…

Covid-19: A visiting Belgian is DR Congo first coronavirus case

KINSHASA, March 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo have confirmed the first case of coronavirus in the country in the capital, Kinsasha. The patient is a Belgian citizen who has been in the country for several days, Health Minister Eteni Longondo said. “We are tracking…

South African court clears Pres Cyril Ramaphosa over donation

President Cyril Ramaphosa PRETORIA, March 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — South Africa’s High Court has dismissed the findings of an anti-corruption investigator who said that President Cyril Ramaphosa had deliberately misled parliament over a campaign donation. Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane showed a lack of knowledge of the law and did not have…

Covid-19: Ugandans arrested for giving fake vaccine

KAMPALA, March 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Police in Uganda is investigating a father and daughter for allegedly giving people a fake vaccine against coronavirus. There is currently no inoculation against the disease which has killed more than 4,000 people around the world. There are currently 18 confirmed cases of coronavirus in…

Covid-19: Morocco announces first death

RABAT, March 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Morocco’s health ministry said the country had recorded its first death linked to the new coronavirus, an 89-year-old woman who suffered from chronic health problems.The woman, a Moroccan citizen who had been living in Italy, “suffered from chronic illnesses affecting the respiratory and cardiovascular system”,…

Eighty-six dolphins found dead on remote Namibian beach, probe launched

WINDHOEK, March 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Namibia said that 86 dusky dolphins, including two calves just days old, had been found dead on a remote beach and it had launched an investigation into what happened. Marine biologist Kolette Grobler estimated that the mammals had been dead for about a week before…

US creates new envoy position to counter rising terrorism in Sahel

The Sahel region in Africa: a belt up to 1,000 km wide that spans 5,400 km from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea WASHINGTON, March 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The United States has created a special envoy position to counter rising violence in Africa’s Sahel region, a State Department spokesman said. Peter Pham, started his…

Kenya: Rare white giraffes killed by poachers, one left remaining – conservationists

The giraffes lived in an unfenced conservancy  NAIROBI: March 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) —Two extremely rare white giraffes have been killed by poachers in north-eastern Kenya, conservationists say. Rangers had found the carcasses of the female and her calf in a village in north-eastern Kenya’s Garissa County. A third white giraffe is still alive.…
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