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Algeria prepares law to withdraw nationality of people threatening state

Algeria plans for the first time to deprive of nationality citizens who commit acts abroad that are liable to “seriously damage the interests of the state or harm the national unity”, the prime minister’s office said on Wednesday.

Egypt has so far okayed three vaccines; Sinopharm, AstraZeneca, Sputnik V

Egypt begins vaccine rollout to wider population

Health Mar 04

Egypt on Thursday expanded its coronavirus vaccination rollout to include the elderly and people with chronic diseases after several weeks of vaccinating medical staff, the cabinet said.

Combination foto of Akufo-Addo (l) and Mahama

Ghana Supreme Court throw out case of Mahama, declare Akufo-Addo winner of 2020 election

Politics Mar 04

Supreme Court unanimously throw out former president John Mahama case out of de window, say errors wey de Electoral Commissioner commit during de declaration and subsequent corrections no be based in any law.

Media watchdog groups reported the arrests of at least 13 journalists in Ethiopia last year

Ethiopia releases media workers detained in Tigray

Politics Mar 04

Fitsum Berhane and Alula Akalu, translators working for AFP news agency and Financial Times respectively, BBC journalist Girmay Gebru and Temrat Yemane, a local journalist, had been arrested over the weekend and earlier this week.

Malika Boumendjel, widow of Algerian lawyer Ali Boumendjel

France admits 'torture and murder' of Algerian freedom fighter

Politics Mar 04

French forces "tortured and murdered" Algerian freedom fighter Ali Boumendjel during his country's war for independence, President Emmanuel Macron admitted Tuesday, officially reappraising a death that was covered up as a suicide.

Ten people killed in South Sudan plane crash

Politics Mar 04

At least ten people, including the two pilots, died when a plane crashed at an airstrip in South Sudan's Jonglei state, the region's governor and the airline said.