here is your latest african news niger at least two killed 18 wounded by french military in niger
niger's government says two people were killed and 18 wounded after a french military convoy heading
to mali was blocked by protesters angry at the failure of french forces to reign in terrorism
in the region the armed vehicles and logistics trucks had crossed the border last week after
being blocked in burkina faso for a week after demonstrations about the lack of security there
people have been protesting the failure of both the burkina bay authorities and french forces to
stop mounting violence by islamic militants anger about french military presence in its
former colonies has been rising in niger burkina faso and other countries in west africa sahel
region where france has thousands of troops to fight affiliates of al-qaeda and islamic state
last week hundreds of people in bukina bay city of kaia blocked the french convoy which is on its way
from codeword to mali africa wide african union rejects travel bans amid new covet 19 variant
the african union has cautioned countries across the world against imposing quick travel bans on
travelers from the continent in the wake of a new variant of the covet-19 virus say to be
more infectious dr john gengasong director of the africa center for disease control and prevention
say the history of the pandemic had indicated travel bans served little purpose in managing
the spread of the virus the african cdc's stance comes two days after south africa's
national institute for communicable diseases announced it had detected a new variant
seen as a superbug version of the tsar's corvette ii the virus that causes covet 19. but
hours after its detection western countries including uk germany and the us imposed
flight bans on south africa and six of its neighbors where the varant had been detected
canada morocco russia and several others also imposed bans on the south african countries
africa wide akon joins the hashtag nomo movement to defend africa the nomo movement is getting
greater acceptance in africa and all over the world at large with singers songwriters and human
rights campaigner akon joining and advocating for the movement the nomo movement took place
last week in several parts of the world and the recognition it received accordingly shows that
africa and other countries are clearly showing solidarity with not only ethiopia but africa
as a whole the movement apparently manifests that ethiopia has been emerging once again as a beacon
of an african freedom struggle south africa president calls for lift of omicron travel bans
south africa's president has condemned travel bans enacted against his country and its neighbors over
the new coronavirus variant omicron siri ramaphosa said he was deeply disappointed by the action
which he described as unjustified and called for the bands to be urgently lifted the uk eu
and u.s are among those who have imposed travel bans omicron has been classified as a variant
of concern early evidence suggests it has a higher reinfection risk the variant was detected in south
africa earlier this month and then reported to the world health organization last week the who
has warned against countries hastingly imposing travel restrictions saying they should look
at a risk-based and scientific approach however numerous bans have been introduced in recent days
amid concerns over the variant uganda uganda asks china to amend airport loan clauses uganda is
seeking to amend a loan agreement it signed with china in 2015 to ensure the government doesn't
lose control of the nation's only international airport the east african nation borrowed 200
million dollars from the export import bank of china to expand the entebbe airport according
to the report the loan which was intended for the development of entebbe airport included a
20-year payback schedule and a seven-year grace period the uganda's civil aviation authority
saved some provisions in the financing agreement exposed entebbe international airport and other
ugandan assets to be attached and taken over by chinese lenders upon arbitration in beijing
china has rejected pleas by uganda to renegotiate the toxic clause of the 2015 loan leaving ugandan
president jory museveni's administration in limbo ghana ghana to make covet 19 vaccine
mandatory for targeted groups from january ghana will ramp up its kovit 19 inoculation campaign
next month and make the vaccine mandatory for targeted groups including all public sector
and health workers from january 22nd health service director general patrick kumar aboard g
sayed only 1.4 million people out of ghana's population of 30 million are fully vaccinated
the government will hold a vaccination drive in december after which the vaccine will be mandatory
for employees in all arms of government health workers security personnel staff and students of
secondary and tertiary education and commercial drivers he said proof of vaccination will also
be needed for nightclubs beaches sports stadiums and restaurants east africa eac bans dumping of
electronic waste calls for recycling a ban on the dumping of electronic waste in the region
received a boost after the east african community prohibited the importation of cathode ray tubes
and standalone used computer monitors with effect from july 1st 2022 the east african community
sectoral council on trade industry finance and investment held a meeting in arusha chaired by
kenya's cabinet secretary in charge of trade and industrialization betty maynard in which
the partner states kenya uganda tanzania rwanda burundi and south sudan agreed unanimously to
ban dumping of e-waste in the region the decision follows concerns that firms in developed countries
were exporting these items to developing countries purportedly as refurbished and good for use while
instead were dumping them so that they don't have to deal with the e-waste when they become obsolete
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