Life in Africa: 2016

Wednesday, 12 October 2016

Ethiopian troops pull out of key Somali military base

Ethiopian troops have reportedly pulled out of a key Somali base in the town of El-Ali, an influential journalist who works for the VOA in the region, Harun Maruf reports.

German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, has asked the Ethiopian government to allow protests and that police response to these protests should be proportionate.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has renewed its request to the Ethiopian government seeking access to the country to conduct an independent assessment of continuing protests.

Ethiopian Prime Minister, Desalegn Hailemariam has for the first time admitted that the number of deaths from anti-government protests in the country could be more than 500.

The announcement of a 6-month state of emergency is not the way to quell anti-government protests in the Oromia region of Ethiopia according to international rights group, Human Rights Watch (HRW).

The Ethiopian government has declared a six months state of emergency in the country.

Pope Francis has announced 17 new cardinals, including Archbishop Dieudonné Nzapalainga of the Catholic Archdiocese of Bangui.

Over 20,000 Catholic faithful from all over the Country attended the National annual Prayer Day at the Marian Shrine, Subukia in the Catholic Diocese of Nakuru October 8.

Country to Hold Regional Meeting on Migration in Africa

A regional meeting on intra and inter-regional migration in Africa is set to be held in Dakar on October 3 and 4.

United Nations children’s agency, UNICEF has said that famine-like conditions in northeast Nigeria could kill 75,000 children over the next year if they do not receive aid.

At least one million people need food and cash aid in drought-hit southern Madagascar, the World Food Programme (WFP) has said.

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Humanitarian situation in Congo's Pool

Congolese Prime minister, Clement
Mouamba has chaired a humanitarian
needs assessment meeting of
government agencies focused on the
renewed tensions in the Pool region in
the south of the Republic of Congo.

Libya has rejected a European Union proposal to
build a migrant camp on its soil to control
migration through the Mediterranean.

A High Court in Zimbabwe on Tuesday upheld a
month-long police ban on protests in the capital,
Harare.

Leaders from the Inter-religious Council of
Ethiopia have appealed for calm and a national
dialogue as the country amidst continuing
protests and targeting of businesses in the
country.

Trucks and machinery belonging to the Dangote
group was attacked by protesters in Ethiopia’s
Oromia region. The attacks followed a deadly
stampede at a festival over the weekend.

The African Union (AU) has responded to a
cartoon alleging that as a result of rising
insecurity in the United States of America,
Africans were advised to avoid travelling to the
country.

Former PMAN President, Charles Oputa
popularly know as Charly Boy has
released weird photos with some few
ladies which he tagged his ‘virgins’.

FIFA boss in Egypt for CAF's Extraordinary General Assembly

FIFA President Gianni Infantino is in
the Egyptian capital, Cairo, for the
Confederation of African Football’s
(CAF) Extraordinary General Assembly
scheduled for tomorrow, Thursday, 29
September 2016.

Two Islamist Muslim Brotherhood officials have
been killed by Egyptian security forces on
Monday.

Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has set
out conditions including the release of former
Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi before his
country will normalise ties with Egypt.

Mauritian economy ranked 'most competitive' in sub Saharan African

Mauritius is sub Saharan Africa’s most
competitive economy according to the
latest ranking of ‘The Global
Competitiveness Index,’ by the World
Economic Forum (WEF).

In this week’s Culture segment on the

Morning Call, Linnete Bahati talks

about the recently opened Smithsonian

National Museum of African American

history and culture in the United

States.

“Since Barack Obama’s rise to national
and global stardom, much has been
written about him from several
standpoints: politics, leadership,
communication, race and social media
use,”

The 2016 Ibrahim Index of African
Governance (IIAG) will be released on
Monday, October 3,

Gabonese Prime Minister, Emmanuel
Issoze Ngondet, named a 40-member
government as scheduled on Sunday
which included few opposition
members.

The Ethiopian government has called
for three days of national mourning

Nigeria Celebrates 56 Years Of Independence

Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari will
begin his independence day address to
Nigerians at 7am as the country marks her
56th independence anniversary.

An “ upcoming” actress whose identity is yet to
be made known may have had her budding
career already in shambles as she has taken
up a role in a script which is definitely too big
for her to handle .

According to an eyewitness , the sordid
incident happened in a community in the
Ibiono Ibom Local Government of Akwa Ibom
State when the culprit ,

Protests Trail Edo Governorship Election Result Announcement

The protesters alleged that the results
have been altered by the electoral
commission.

The PDP candidate alleged inducement

of voters and collaboration of INEC and

the state government to doctor the

results in favour of the All Progressives

Congress (APC).

On October 31, 2016 millions of Americans
(and Europeans as well) will celebrate
Halloween.

The superlative performance of
Team Nigeria at the Rio
Paralympics is already having
‘effect’ on the country as
power-lifting coach Are
Feyisetan,

Super Eagles’ duo of Kelechi
Iheanacho and Alex Iwobi has
been nominated for best U- 21
players in Europe.

Cocoa production and exports plunge in the Ivory Coast

Ivorian cocoa production and exports have
plunged in the 2015-2016 season compared to
the 2014-2015 season.

Casablanca is preparing to overhaul its
underperforming stock exchange with the aim
of revitalising its capital
markets, writes Paul Melly.

African elephant population shrinks due to poaching

Africa’s elephant population fell around 20
percent between 2006 and 2015 because of a
surge in ivory poaching, the International Union
for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) said in a
report on Sunday.

Catholic pontiff, Pope Francis has met with the
President of the Democratic Republic of Congo,
Joseph Kabila at the Vatican.

Ali Bongo will be sworn in today (Tuesday,
September 27) as Gabon’s president for a
second seven-year term his office.
The presidency announced on Monday that the
ceremony will be held at the seafront
presidential palace in Libreville, and this
comes three days after his election victory was
controversially validated by the constitutional
court.

President Bongo’s victory in the August the
27th vote was confirmed on Saturday by the
country’s top court, which dismissed opposition
claims of fraud.
Violence erupted after the President was
initially declared winner.
Ali Bongo took over from his father Omar
Bongo, who ruled Gabon for 41 years until his
death in 2009.

IDPs seek urgent Humanitarian assistance in South Sudan

Up to six thousand internally displaced people
are appealing for urgent humanitarian
assistance in Kuda,

Nigeria’s crude-oil production suffered a fresh
set back on Monday as Trans Niger Pipeline,
which exports about 180,000 barrels of crude
oil per day was shut down.

Algeria has lost an estimated amount
of 165 billion dollars due to brain drain
from about 500,000 elite Algerians
working outside the country.

Kenya’s national carrier Kenya Airway
says it it talking to about 3 or 4 foreign
institutional investors about buying a
stake in the cash strapped airline.

Nigeria Minister of budgets and
National Planning, Udo Udoma, has
disclosed that Nigeria has no plans to
sell national assets as a panacea for
the current economic recession
ravaging the country.

Justice has been delayed for the over
150 people murdered, thousands
injured and more than 100 women
raped during an opposition protest
against Guinea’s military junta in the
capital Conakry on September 28,
2009.

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