A traditional chief in Zimbabwe has ordered that the remains of the country’s former president Robert Mugabe be dug up and reburied at a national cemetery.Mugabe’s successor, President Mnangagwa and others had hoped that he would be buried at the National Heroes Acre in the capital. However, when Mugabe died in 2019, his burial took place in his rural home ...
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On Monday, the military in Mali arrested the country’s president, Bah Ndaw, and his Prime Minister Moctar Ouane after a cabinet reshuffle. Reports say that the two, along with Defense Minister Souleymane Doucoure were arrested and taken to Kati, a centre outside Bamako.The circumstances under which the military held them are currently unclear.Former president Boubacar Keita got overthrown in August ...
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From the start of the pandemic, at least 115,000 health workers have died from Covid-19 according to the WHO Chief. The observation came from the World Health Organization Chief as he called for a dramatic scale-up of vaccination in all countries.At the opening of the World Health Organization’s main annual assembly, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus hailed health workers. He thanked ...
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A campaign group said on Thursday that at least 9 people have been helped by Covid-19 jabs to become billionaires. The group said this as they called for an end to pharmaceutical corporations’ ‘’monopoly control’’. They say these corporations control the technology related to the covid-19 vaccine. ‘’Between them, the nine new billionaires have a combined net wealth of $19.3 ...
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Troops have been deployed in the Democratic Republic of Congo by the Uganda People’s Defense Force (UPDF) according to military sources. The reason for their deployment there is to fight and flash out rebel groups intending to destabilize Uganda and cause havoc among civilians. The first troops are said to have been deployed on May 17th in areas of Kasindi, ...
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