Prisoners in Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown rioted early on Wednesday, killing one guard and setting their jail ablaze, an official said. “This morning we saw fire billowing from inside the prison and loud noise from inmates shouting for help,” said Cecil Cole Showers, a spokesperson for Freetown’s Pademba Road Prison. A guard was killed and
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MALABO, Equatorial Guinea, The African Energy Chamber (www.EnergyChamber.org) has joined oil industry stakeholders in calling on the Bank of Central African States (BEAC) to relax its currency controls rules adopted in June 2019. Last year, the BEAC introduced new rules controlling the flows of currency in Central Africa in a bid to promote financial transparency
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An opposition municipal official has been charged with insulting Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa over his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, a lawyers’ association said. Chrispen Rambu, a local councillor in the eastern town of Chipinge and a member of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), was called in by the police, the Zimbabwe Lawyers
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Facebook (www.Facebook.com) is expanding its Coronavirus Information Center to 24 more countries in Africa as part of its ongoing commitment to empowering people around the world with timely and accurate news from trusted health authorities. The Coronavirus (COVID-19) Information Center is featured at the top of News Feed and provides a central
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NAIROBI, Kenya, African countries fast-tracking membership to African Trade Insurance, ATI (www.ATI-ACA.org) in response to expected trade and investment insurance capacity impact from COVID-19 Togo becomes 18th African country to join ATI, with a shareholding of US$12.5 million, through a concessional loan by the European Investment Bank (www.EIB.org); membership in ATI provides African countries with additional
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The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have appointed Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari as the coordinator of the sub-regions’ response to COVID19. This was made known in a tweet by the Nigeria’s presidential spokesman Femi Adesina on Thursday. “ECOWAS leaders at an extraordinary summit held by video conference have appointed President Muhammadu Buhari as
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