here is your latest african news guinea bissau co-attempt fails after gunfire and capital
guinea-bissau's president romaro sisoko embalo has said the situation in the country is under
control following fears of an attempted coup and gunfire in the capital gunshots erupted near the
government palace in the capital sparking fears of another coup attempt in the west african country
which has suffered repeated military takeovers president romaro sisoko embalo was holding a
cabinet meeting in government offices this morning before an attack near the building began
footage posted on social media showed armed men with automatic rifles and rocket-propelled
grenades while other footage showed people fleeing as continuous gunfire was heard around them
rwanda ronda is set to host the commonwealth meeting in june
rwanda is having another chance at hosting the commonwealth heads of government meeting
after the event was postponed twice due to the covet 19 pandemic the meeting will now be held
starting the week of june 20th 2022 the new date was announced in a joint communique by the
commonwealth secretary general patricia scotland and ronda's president paul kagame the event was
due to have been held in kigali in june 2020 but was postponed that year and also in 2021 after
it was deemed unsafe for the delegates to convene in rwanda at a time the pandemic was still raging
ethiopia ethiopian airlines to resume 737 max flight after 2019 crash ethiopian airlines has
started to operate the boeing 737 max for the first time since a crash nearly three
years ago killed all 157 people on board and triggered the global grounding of the aircraft
flight 304 from adi sababa to nairobi crashed in adi sababa six minutes after takeoff in march 2019
just five months after a similar crash in indonesia left 189 people dead the twin disasters
and subsequent scrutiny of the american made 737 max faulty flight handling system amounted
to criminal negligence the victims of the flight 302 crash the worst in ethiopia's history held
from more than 30 countries boeing has reached an agreement with the victims families and accepted
responsibility for the crash according to legal documents filed in november in chicago where the
company is headquartered the proposed agreement did not mention specific sums as jurors will be
responsible for assessing amounts south africa zuma makes final push to avoid arms deal charges
jacob zuma's defense team will present multiple arguments before the peter merrittsburg high court
to have the former president's failed special plea in the arms deal mata heard by the supreme
court of appeal zuma's legal runway to avoid his day in court is running out but the 79-year-old's
application of the stalingrad defense continues to give him wings this includes attempting to enter
further evidence into the mata currently before the court questioning law and running a private
prosecution against the lead prosecutor in the case zuma is accused of receiving 791 payments
totaling 270 thousand dollars between 1995 and 2004 from his former financial advisor or economic
advisor shabir shaikh and shakes companies to help french arms manufacturer thales secure lucrative
defense contracts from the government as part of the country's multi-billion run 1999 armament deal
democratic republic of congo democratic republic of congo launches billion dollar deep water port
the democratic republic of congo has launched construction of its first deep water port
the port of banana is a one billion dollar project that is intended to boost local and international
trade the contractor dubai port world will be completing the first phase of the infrastructure
by 2025. the 18 meter deep seaport is located on the it's mass on the mouth of the congo river a
narrow strip of land with the atlantic ocean on one side and the congo river on the other
the second largest country in africa has been expecting this infrastructure for several decades
zimbabwe chinese miner faces litigation of illegal dangamvura query chinese company freestone mines
is facing litigation for embarking on query mining activities in the dungamvura mountain before
obtaining the environmental impact assessment eia residents demanded council to relocate the chinese
miner to a new site far away from residential areas and water distribution pipes speaking during
a community dialogue meeting at nagamvura mountain center for natural resource governance director
farai magoo revealed that plans are afoot to take free stone mines to court after they ignored the
eia process seashells guinness world records names jonathan as world's oldest totoris ever
on 190th birthday jonathan an endemic seashells land tortures who currently lives on the island
of saint helena has been named the oldest tortoise ever by the guinness world record according to the
organization's website his official record title is oldest chilonian a category which
includes all turtles terrapins and tortoise he is also the oldest land animal jonathan is
believed to have been born in 1832 making him 190 years old in 2022. jonathan was transported from
seashells in the indian ocean to saint helena in 1882 when he was approximately 50 years old
according to photographic evidence as well as scientific evidence such as this shell pattern
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