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rwanda rwanda receives 133 more asylum
seekers from
libya a new batch of 133 asylum seekers
from libya
landed in rwanda early on friday they
will join others
who were already in rwanda waiting to be
relocated to third countries
as previous holdups in libya begin to
thaw they have all been tested for covet
19
and are awaiting their results once
they're out the asylum seekers will join
others
at the transit center in bulgera a
statement from the government states at
this
on friday the relocation process of
asylum seekers to rwanda
had slowed down since the year began
with the united nations high
commissioner of refugees
unhcr saying that since april
it's begun negotiating clearance of an
evacuation flight from
libyan authorities but had not succeeded
in getting the permits to evacuate
these asylum seekers coronavirus relates
to travel complications
and even strict criteria of resettlement
in some countries
caused delay in the entire evaluation
and resettlement
chain ivory coast ivory coast
to become regional medicine hub with 300
million dollar ifc loan
a world bank program to help medical
clinics in ivory coast procure
equipment from general electric and
philips could spur
the west african countries to
development into a regional medical hub
a 300 million dollar financing agreement
signed on friday by ivory coast
and the world bank's international
finance corporation ifc
aims to remedy that situation by
providing credit to clinics
hoping to get supplies from philips and
general electric ge
the program is part of the ifc's africa
medical equipment facility
which partners with african financial
institutions and global medical supply
firms to give local currency loans to
small and
medium-sized clinics for equipment
purchases
south africa south african authorities
probe coastal chemical spill in durban
south african authorities in the port
city of durban
said on saturday they were investigating
a coastal chemical spill
that may have been caused by a warehouse
fire
during unrest this past week other
possible sources are also being
investigated at the moment
as the cause of the spill which is
affecting marine
and bird life the ateguine municipality
said late on friday urging locals and
local residents not to use the beaches
in the area
for now extensive environmental impacts
are being reported at unclanger
and um de lagoons and beaches in the
vicinity
that have killed numerous species of
marine and birdlife so far
authorities in the areas have warned
locals against fishing
use of contact of sea water stating that
the pollution is
serious and can affect one's health if
species are collected and then
afterwards consumed eswatini
is king swati appoints new prime
minister
eswa demi's king sweaty the third on
friday appointed cleops lamini
as the southern african nation's new
prime minister
replacing ambrose mandvulo lamini who
died in december
zamini was previously chief executive of
the public service pension fund
swati made the announcement at a public
meeting at one of his residences
broadcast online and on state radio
the announcement was made following the
demonstrations demanding
the right to democratically elect a
prime minister among other reforms in
africa's only remaining absolute
monarchy
in his remarks on the protests the king
called them satanic
and said they had taken the country all
the way
backwards kenya chief justice
martha kume gets tough as her reign
takes shape
two months after martha kume was sworn
in
as the country's 15th chief justice her
court is slowly taking shape
gloves are now off and the tough talking
kume is
slowly emerging stamping her authority
in the corridors of justice during her
inaugural meeting justice kumi stressed
the need for collaboration
by all stakeholders in the justice
system which are independent but also
inter-dependent the meeting discussed at
the reintroduction of
instant fines for traffic offenders
fast-tracking of graft cases
prison recongestion review of cases
involving children
and the establishment of more small
claims courts
before that justice kumar as prime
minister of the supreme court
presided over the inaugural session of
the country's
top top court she used the occasion to
call on advocates to engage with the
bench
robustly and skillfully as they can
but remember the importance of civility
in all that they do ethiopia ethiopia
warns foreign media over tikri coverage
ethiopia has warned foreign media of
stringent measures if they continue to
refer to the troops in tigrai region
as a defence force the ethiopian
government labeled the former
tigrid governing administration the
tigra
people's liberation front a terrorist
group
it says foreign media has continued to
allude to a disbanded tigran regional
government
adding that the provisional
administration was in charge of the
region
until elections were then held the
warning
comes days after the regulator revoked
the license
of one of the newspapers in ethiopia
addis
standard over its coverage of the tigrai
conflict
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