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Lagos state, which includes Nigeria’s commercial hub and biggest city, approved clinical trial of the drug Ivermectin to assess its effectiveness against Covid-19. Ivermectin is an FDA-approved broad spectrum anti-parasitic agent that has been shown to have anti-viral activity against…
Africa's oil exports slumped to the lowest level in at least three years last month, as infrastructure woes for some of Nigeria’s biggest streams combined with gradually waning output in Angola. Combined flows from the region fell to 3.41 million…
A host of scholars and imams in Mauritania issued a fatwa prohibiting normalization with Israel. “The relationship with the usurping entity of the occupied Palestinian territory and Jerusalem is prohibited,” said the fatwa, signed by 200 scholars and imams. The…
The Gambia is set to approve and domesticate the convention against torture for the first time. The tiny country is also set to launch the first judicial strategic plan as part of efforts to overhaul its judicial system. The announcement…
The European Investment Bank (EIB), an international financial entity has announced that it will provide a subsidy of close to 28 million dollars for the expansion of Zagtouli solar power plant. It’s the largest solar power plant in the West…
The World Health Organization said Monday it has observed a slight slowdown in new cases of the coronavirus infection worldwide for the third week in a row. WHO Director General – Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus during the agency’s briefing in…
The trial of a man accused of committing serious war crimes during Liberia's second civil war two decades ago began at Tampere District Court on Monday. The defendant, Sierra Leonean national Gibril Massaquoi, faces several serious charges including dozens of…
Burkina Faso’s national news agency AIB reported on Monday that six people were killed and properties were burned in an attack at a gold mining site on Sunday night in the southwestern region of the country. It said the attack…