Police have said the woman who was shot and a bullet got stuck in her spine during the November 18 political protests will be taken to India for further treatment.
The company will repurchase as much as 10% of the issued capital starting with a first tranche of 85.2 million shares of 50 kobo each, or 0.5% of the total in issue, it said in a filing to the Nigerian Stock Exchange on Monday.
Algeria will launch COVID-19 vaccinations in January, President Abdelmadjid Tebboune said Sunday, although the North African nation has not yet selected which vaccine it will deploy.
Lecturers at the Rumbek University of Science and Technology (RUST) after a general assembly meeting on Tuesday threatened to down their tools if the government fails to pay their nine-month salary arrears.
Netflix has appointed Zimbabwean billionaire Strive Masiyiwa to its board of directors, making him the first African and the third international media executive to join the streaming giant’s board in recent years. His appointment comes weeks after former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice said she was quitting her role on the board to join president-elect Joe Biden’s administration.
Kilimanjaro region in Northern Tanzania attracts tens of thousands of people to visit during Christmas and New Year, joining their families for the festivities.
A cattle raid in Tonj North County of South Sudan’s Warrap State left five people dead and three others wounded, a local official said on Friday, amid fears of renewed clashes.
Uganda can never degenerate to the level of being protected by the United Nations peace missions because the National Resistance Movement (NRM) party has built a strong army, President Museveni has said.
On December 18, the Speaker of the Ugandan parliament announced the succumbing of yet another member of the house to Covid-19. The news elicited polite expressions of regret but did not appear to shock anybody.
