Last Ebola patient in DR Congo leaves treatment centre

KINSHASA, March 4 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The last Ebola patient in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) has been discharged from a treatment centre in the eastern city of Beni, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said. More than 2,300 people have been killed since the outbreak began in DR…

Covid-19: Tanzania’s president prefers foot greeting

President John Magufuli (R) exchanging a foot greeting with opposition politician Maalim Seif Sharif DAR ES SALAAM, March 4 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Tanzania’s State House has shared a picture of President John Magufuli exchanging a foot greeting with opposition politician Maalim Seif Sharif Hamad, observing new measures by the health ministry…

Egyptian FM Says Ethiopia’s Desire To Fill Controversial Dam Contradicts Int’l Laws

CAIRO, Mar 4 (NNN-MENA) – Egyptian Foreign Minister, Sameh Shoukry said, Ethiopia cannot start filling the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), until “an agreement is reached with the downstream countries.” “Egypt desires to see Ethiopia follow the path of negotiations,” Shoukry said, in an interview with the Egyptian TV Programme,…

Senegal reports first confirmed case of COVID-19: official

DAKAR, March 3 (NNN-Xinhua) — Senegalese Ministry of Health and Social Action confirmed the country’s first case of COVID-19.  The infected patient is of French nationality, father of two kids, returned on Feb 26 to Dakar from Paris with Air Senegal’s flight, after spending holidays in southern France, according to…

South African police evict migrant squatters from Cape Town’s busy square

A woman wails as law enforcement officials move in to disperse a group of immigrants who had occupied a historic church and a square in central Cape Town Cape Town, March 3 (NNN-AGENCIES) — South African police forcibly removed hundreds of migrants who had been squatting for four months on…

US to give Zambia $389 million grant for AIDS relief

An HIV adherence counsellor draws a woman’s blood for an HIV test LUSAKA, March 3 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The United States will give Zambia a new one year bilateral grant of $389 million for AIDS relief starting in October after Congressional approval, Zambia’s ministry of health said in a statement.The grant…

Somali govt army clashes with regional force

MOGADISHU, March 3 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Fighting has broken out between the Somali military and soldiers of the regional government of Jubaland.Residents in the town of Bula Hawa – close to Somalia’s borders with Kenya and Ethiopia – say there have been exchanges of gunfire for several hours.Tension between the government…

Nigeria: About 50 villagers killed by gunmen in northern attack

ABUJA, March 3 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Gunmen on foot have killed dozens of people during simultaneous attacks on several villages in northern Nigeria.Residents of the remote villages in Kaduna state say the attackers arrived on Sunday in large numbers and started shooting people and burning their homes.A police spokesperson in the…

Five soldiers killed in checkpoint attack in central Mali

Troops of the Malian army patrol the ancient town of Djenne in central Mali MOPTI (Mali), March 3 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Five Malian soldiers were killed when militants armed with rocket launchers attacked a checkpoint in a central region of the conflict-torn nation, a military source said.“At least five soldiers were…

Libya conflict: ‘Stressed’ Ghassan Salame resigns as UN envoy after efforts to seek peace failed

Salame says he had tried and failed to bring peace to Libya GENEVA, March 3 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The UN’s special envoy for Libya has resigned saying his efforts to bring peace in the North African country had led to stress.Ghassan Salame said on Twitter he could not “take this much…
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