An investigation has been launched and officers of the judicial police are at the scene as well as health officials, a government statement said.
Author: Sumner Shagari Sambo
“This will enable (the) MEC to have more time to process the results before the end of 150 days ordered by the court,” Malawi Electoral Commission chairwoman Jane Ansah said and asked parliament to endorse the date.
The global response to the pandemic has benefited from the work of Ethiopian doctors overseas, including aides to WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus — who is himself Ethiopian, though not a doctor — and emergency-room physicians in hotspots like New York.
The health ministry’s emergency preparedness manager, Dr. Mathew Tut, said the two infected people were South Sudanese and in their 20s.
Several prominent Nigerians had been speculated as possible successors of the powerful and former Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari, who died last month of Covid-19 infection. He was regarded as a defacto president by many Nigerians.
In a communique, the Ministry of Health and Wellness said that 73,572 COVID-19 tests have been carried out, including 50,077 Rapid Antigen Tests and 23 495 PCR tests (polymerase chain reaction).
“I cannot accept the signing of a draft agreement to the first phase (filling the dam) because it poses legal and technical problems that must be addressed,” Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok said in a statement in Khartoum.
The latest influx follows bloodshed in the Nigerian states of Katsina, Sokoto and Zamfara, UNHCR said. Overall, Niger hosts more than half a million refugees, from Mali and Burkina Faso as well as Nigeria, a recent UN report said.
“Thabane is now a caretaker prime minister until May 22 when a new prime minister is sworn in,” Sam Rapapa, deputy chairman of Thabane’s All Basotho Convention (ABC) party said. All parties have provisionally agreed on Finance Minister Moeketsi Majoro to replace Thabane, he added.
“More than 900 of people were deported back to Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Lesotho and we’re left with about 500 people”, Bongani Bongo, chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs of Parliament said.