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.
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“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.
Guinea-Bissau currently has 761 confirmed coronavirus cases, including 26 recoveries and 3 deaths in the West African nation.
“In this new phase that will last not a few weeks but three or four months, we need to learn to live in the presence of the virus,” President Macky Sall said.
The move is intended to allow some categories of flight movements amid growing demand for the service, Tanzania Civil Aviation Authority (TCAA) Director General, Hamza Johari told reporters on Monday.
The troops were on a routine patrol on Sunday morning in Aguelhok commune in the north of the country, when their convoy hit a roadside bomb.
A video circulating on social media, which could not be independently verified, appears to show Koroma telling a crowd that rioters will be shot.