Sudan's PM sacks provincial governor after protests

Sudan's Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has sacked the governor of the eastern Kassala province, barely three months after he appointed him.
Liberia's President, George Weah
George Weah asks for US help to probe mysterious deaths
Liberia's President George Weah has asked the US to help with investigations into the mysterious deaths of three senior officials in finance-related posts, the state-linked Liberia News Agency (LINA) has reported.
Authorities are battling to contain fire that broke out on Mount Kilimanjaro
Africa’s highest mountain Kilimanjaro is on fire
Firefighters and hundreds of volunteers in Tanzania are battling to contain a reported fire outbreak on Africa’s tallest mountain, Kilimanjaro, the country’s National Parks Service (TANAPA) confirmed in a statement on Monday.
Governor Nyesom Wike said the ban on protests was because police had already scrapped SARS
Nigerian state bans police brutality protests
The governor of Nigeria's Rivers state has banned all forms of protests in the southern state, including protests against police brutality.
Mr Amanuel has not been seen or heard from in 19 year, since he was arrested
Jailed Eritrean poet wins English PEN award
The free speech organisation English PEN has given its 2020 award for International Writer of Courage to the Eritrean poet Amanuel Asrat.
American rapper, Kanye West
Kanye West, other African-Americans join Nigeria's #EndSARS movement in solidarity
#EndSARS, the 2018-created hashtag by Nigerian youth whose social media movement against police brutality resurfaced last week garnering 1.5 million tweets in one weekend to culminate offline into one of the largest protests the country has seen in a decade.
Muhammadu Buhari, President of Nigeria
Sars ban: Nigeria's Buhari pledges 'extensive' police reforms
Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has promised "extensive" reforms amid protests against police brutality.
Some teachers in Uganda are now venturing into small businesses to survive
'We have to live': Ugandan teachers turn to business as schools stay closed
The virus has kept schools in Uganda closed since March. While salaries for teachers employed in government schools have kept coming, an estimated 150,000 teachers in private schools have not been paid for months.
Alyson Rae Lawson is the first black woman to own a 7-Eleven franchise in her community
Meet the only African-American woman to own two 7-Eleven stores in Texas
Alyson Rae Lawson’s end goal was to become a franchise holder just like her father. Her dad franchised three McDonald’s in the Oak Cliff area when she was younger. As fate would have it, she is now the CEO of RaeLawson Enterprise LLC, franchisee/operator of two 7-Eleven convenient stores with gas stations located right across the street from each other in Arlington, Texas.
The principal has five days to appeal against the ruling
SA school principal sacked over drowning of pupil
The principal of a boys school in South Africa's economic heartland of Gauteng has been served with a dismissal notice following the drowning of a 13-year-pupil during a school trip earlier this year.
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