✳ Ghana 1 Gabon 1 ✳ Morocco 2 Comoros 0 ✳ Zimbabwe 1 Malawi 2 Yaounde, Cameroon | THE INDEPENDENT | Ngowet Allevinah scored a late equaliser to earn Gabon an important 1-1 draw against Ghana in a TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations match in Yaoundé on Friday. The Black Stars came into the match …
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Brazzaville, Congo | Xinhua | After a six-week surge, Africa’s fourth wave of COVID-19 pandemic driven primarily by the Omicron variant, is flattening, marking the shortest-lived surge to date in the continent where cumulative cases have now exceeded 10 million, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday. Weekly cases having …
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Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | Xinhua | Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan on Thursday warned ministers and other senior government officials over what she described as leakage of confidential government documents. “Leakage of confidential government documents to the public could affect the performance of the government,” said President Hassan when she …
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Free trading under the auspices of the African Continental Free Trade Area started in January 2021. One year later, several aspects of the trade pact are being successfully implemented as negotiations are ongoing in other areas. Kingsley Ighobor interviewed the Secretary-General of the AfCFTA Secretariat, Wamkele Mene and here are …
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Abuja, Nigeria | Xinhua | The Nigerian government on Wednesday ended its suspension of Twitter, seven months after it halted the operation of the California-based microblogging platform in Africa’s most populous country. The lifting of the ban in Nigeria would take effect from 12 a.m. local time on Thursday (2300 GMT …
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Khartoum, Sudan | Xinhua | Sudan’s Transitional Sovereign Council on Monday welcomed the United Nations (UN) initiative to facilitate a comprehensive dialogue among the Sudanese parties to end the ongoing political crisis in the country. The council made its stand clear during a meeting held at the Republican Palace, chaired by …
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✳ Senegal 1 Zimbabwe 0 ✳ Morocco 1 Ghana 0 ✳ Guinea 1 Malawi 0 Yaounde, Cameroon | THE INDEPENDENT | A late penalty from talisman Sadio Mane helped Senegal beat Zimbabwe 1-0 in their opening TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations, Cameroon match at the Kouekong Stadium in Baffoussam. The Teranga Lions started …
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Mogadishu, Somalia | Xinhua | The Somali National Army (SNA), backed by Galmudug regional forces, foiled an attack and killed 21 al-Shabab militants in a town in central Somalia on Sunday, said SNA officials. According to the SNA, four of its soldiers, including the commander of the 13th battalion of Sector …
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Accra, Ghana | Xinhua | The leadership of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Sunday announced a flurry of harsher sanctions on Mali. Leaders of ECOWAS gathered in an extraordinary summit to deliberate on the situation in Mali. In the communique after the summit, the regional body said …
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✳ DAY ONE Cameroon 2 Burkina Faso1 Ethiopia 0 Cape Verde 1 (HT) Yaounde, Cameroon | THE INDEPENDENT | Indomitable Lions captain Vincent Aboubakar scored twice to give host nation Cameroon a 2-1 victory over Burkina Faso in the opening match of the TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations, Cameroon 2021. …
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