here's your latest african news tunisia tunisia's president appoints the first woman as head of
government the president has met with najal buden romhan this wednesday and tasked her with forming
a new government last month tunisians were out and forced to demonstrate against the
power grab by the president the country faces a looming crisis in public finance after years of
economic stagnation and political infighting the new head of government is a geological engineer
with world bank experience previously she was in charge of implementing world bank projects at the
ministry of education eretria erratrian dies aged 127 after joyful life a man in eretria has died at
the age of 127 his family has stayed expressing the hope that natabe tinsey will earn a place in
the guinness world records of the oldest person to have ever lived mr natabe died peacefully in his
village azrapha which has a population of about 300 in a gorge surrounded by mountains on monday
his grandson said church records including his birth certificate showed he was born in 1894 the
year he was baptized making him 127 at the time of his death mr natabe married his wife in 1934. she
later died in 2019 at the age of 99. the euretian worked as a herdsmen and owned many cattle goats
honeybees and during his life has seen generations of his family grow up south sudan south sudan says
40 afghan refugees are in the country illegally at least 40 afghans have entered south sudan
without following the required legal procedures according to the country's immigration authorities
addressing sector commanders on tuesday morning in juba general atem marol who head south sudan's
immigration passport and civil registry say the refugees entered the country illegally general
marol who said it was not clear how the afghans entered south sudan asked citizens to cooperate
with the refugees and provide them the needed reception in late august uganda became the first
african country to host afghan refugees after its foreign affairs ministry confirmed having
received 51 evacuees uganda said the united states requested it host at-risk afghans and people of
other nationalities who were in transit to america and other nations it is the largest refugee
hosting nation on the african continent and the fourth in the world with over 1.5 million refugees
malawi malawi court hands lengthy prison term to chinese wildlife trafficker
a malawi magistrate court in the capital lilongwe has sentenced a chinese national described by
some as one of the biggest african wildlife trafficking kingpins to 32 years in prison
after convicting him of three wildlife crimes judge justice violet chipao on tuesday sentenced
lin yang hao to 14 years in prison for trading in rhino horns 14 years for possession of rhino horn
and an additional six years for money laundering justice jipao however said the sentence will run
concurrently meaning that lin will serve a total of 14 years lin a chinese national and the leader
of wildlife trafficking syndicate lin zhang gang named after the husband and wife leaders
has been operating out of malawi for at least a decade malawi's authorities arrested him in
august 2019 following a three-month manhunt ghana nana ampadu ghana high life legend dies at age 76.
ghanian high life legend nana ampadu has reportedly passed on the obra hitmaker kicked
the bucket on tuesday september 28 at the legion hospital in accra where he was receiving treatment
for an illness according to several media reports he passed on age 76 his death came as a shock
to many industry people and fans multiple award-winning high life musician dada hako
reacted to the news on facebook saying and i quote the biggest of all the trees has fallen
rest in peace nana you touched millions with your music and also influenced an entire
generation he will definitely be missed end quote democratic republic of congo
negligence by world health organization staff to blame for sexual abuse in democratic republic of
congo commission independent investigators mandated by the world health organization to
probe allegations of sexual abuse by its staff in the democratic republic of congo cited clear
structural failures and individual negligence in a report released on tuesday the abusers were
committed by personnel hired locally as well as members of the international team in the country
to fight an ebola outbreak from 2018 to 2020. the commission interviewed dozens of women who
were offered work in exchange for sex or who were victims of rape the 35 page report paints a grim
picture noting the scale of incidence of sexual exploitation and abuse in the response to the 10th
ebola outbreak all of which contributed to the increased vulnerability of alleged victims who
are not provided with the necessary support and assistance required for such degrading experiences
south africa south africa and kenya airlines signed corporation deal
south african airways and kenya airways have signed a corporation agreement with long-term
ambitions of creating a pan-african airline south african airways and kenya airways both of which
have been plagued by financial and administrative roles say their collaboration would make the
aviation sector more competitive they signed a memorandum of understanding to increase their
mutual growth potential the collaboration could entail sharing services in terms of routes fleet
maintenance and repair as well as seeking opportunities to achieve economies of scale
kenya airways has been hit hard by kovy 19 and has focused on transporting cargo to minimize losses
it also plans to have the airline nationalized after its code share agreement with air france
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