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The United Arab Emirates’ National Emergency Crisis and Disasters Emergency Management Authority (NCEMA) and the General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) have announced the suspension of all inbound flights for national and international carriers and transit passengers from Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, and Nigeria with effect from Saturday, December 25, effective 7.30am. …

What you need to know: The deceased was identified as Gad Sentekola, a resident of Kibimbiri cell, Kabuga – Kihihi Sub County in Kanungu District. Police in Kanungu District in south western Uganda are investigating circumstance under which a 56-year-old man died after an amateur eating contest on Christmas Day. …

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The United Nations Human Rights Office has said that it had received 13 allegations of rape and gang rape by security forces during protests in Sudan, while opposition medics reported a second person killed. Sunday’s demonstration drew hundreds of thousands of people to the capital Khartoum to protest against a …

The Nigerian economy has lost N499.32billion to the shutdown of the micro-blogging site, Twitter, since it came into effect on June 4, 2021. On June 4, the Federal Government announced the suspension of Twitter after the social media platform deleted a tweet by President Muhammadu Buhari. Telecommunication companies had on …

In December 2019, as Kenya marked the anniversary of its independence from British colonial rule, two communities in the Great Rift Valley asked the United Nations to investigate a colonial-era land grab. The Kipsigis and Talai communities of Kericho county say the British brutally evicted them from their ancestral land …

The Kaduna State Commissioner of Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, said some bandits have invaded three communities in the Giwa Local Government Area of the state, killing at least 20 persons. The commissioner gave the names of the attacked communities to include Kauran Fawa, Marke, and Riheya. Aruwan, …

Sudanese protesters have taken to the streets in the capital Khartoum to reject the October 25 military coup, the latest in a series of demonstrations that have continued even after the reinstatement of the prime minister. Hundreds of thousands marching in protest on Sunday faced heavy tear gas, a Reuters’ …

The African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) has onboarded two former African heads of state — H.E. Issoufou Mahamadou, former President of Niger and H.E. Hailemariam Desalegn, former Ethiopian Prime Minister ¬— to the organization’s global board of trustees to share their diverse and unique African leadership perspectives as AWF implements its …

COVID-19 infection rates are soaring across South Africa as a result of the highly mutated Omicron variant of the coronavirus, but fewer people have died or required hospital treatment compared with previous waves of the disease, according to health officials. South Africa on Wednesday recorded its highest number of cases …