Across Africa in five minutes or less

GHANA 

Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Forestry Commission, Madam Martha Kwayie Manu, has advised Ghanaians to help the Commission to nurture the trees planted during the Green Ghana Initiative. She said although this was not the first time the country embarked on a tree planting exercise this ought to be different by ensuring the trees planted were nurtured to achieve a better environment.

NIGERIA

President Muhammadu Buhari has said he hopes Nigeria will be secure, prosperous and confident by the time he leaves office in 2023. He made the remark in a 30-minute interview with the Nigerian Television Authority, which aired on Friday.

UGANDA

A 60-year-old traffic officer has died after a sugarcane truck he signaled to stop at a checkpoint ran over him. Busoga north region police spokesperson, Mr Michael Kasadha identified the deceased as Police Constable Moses Dhediye attached to Kamuli Central Police Station.

LIBERIA

President George Weah has called for an urgent need to cleanse the Judiciary Branch of Government for a favorable business and investment climate. President Weah said in addition to policy measures put into place in easing challenges faced by investors and business people in Liberia since his leadership, he will boost efforts to completely overhaul the processes involved in starting and maintaining a business and simplifying them.

COTE D’IVOIRE

Two soldiers and a police officer were killed when their vehicle hit an explosive device in northeast Ivory Coast near the border with Burkina Faso, the military said Sunday. Army chief of staff General Lassina Doumbia said that at around 7:00 pm (1900 GMT) on Saturday a reconnaissance patrol “was the subject of a complex attack” in the restive region.

TOGO

French industrial group Bollore on Friday reached a settlement over a decade-old corruption case in Togo, prosecutors said, but a separate plea deal with three top company executives was thrown out by a judge. The company agreed to pay 12 million euros ($14.5 million) as part of the deal with financial crime prosecutors which was accepted by a Paris court Friday.

MALI

Mali announced a new government on Friday in which key roles were retained by army figures, according to a statement read out on the national broadcaster. The announcement comes after Colonel Assimi Goita, who led a coup last month, was named transitional president on Wednesday and appointed a civilian as his prime minister.

SENEGAL

Construction is booming in Dakar, where unfinished apartment blocks tower over most streets, their exposed concrete bricks a dull uniform grey. In one site, however, a building stands out – the bricks the workers are laying are made of raw, red earth as Senegalese architects have embarked upon a campaign to ditch concrete in favor of red dirt.

BURKINA FASO

More than 7,000 people have fled Burkina Faso’s volatile north following the bloodiest massacre in a six-year jihadist insurgency. At least 138 men, women and children were “executed” and nearly 40 were seriously wounded.

SIERRA LEONE

The Ministry of Planning and Economic Development last Friday 4^th June, 2021 organised one-day validation workshop with Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), Members of Parliament, the media and Ministries Department and Agencies on the 2021 Voluntary National Review (VNR) report on the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

DRC

President Félix Tshisekedi announces that the country intends to promote curative products made in Congo to fight against the coronavirus. He notably cited the Manacovid manufactured by Flaubert Batangu who died in May in Kinshasa. He had carried out his experiments in Kinshasa in 3 independent sites. The product (not approved by the WHO) has been placed on the market.

RWANDA

Miss Popularity Rwanda 2009, Winnie Ngamije, has been appointed as the Deputy Director General of Rwanda Civil Aviation Authority. Ngamije holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science Engineering from the University of Rwanda’s College of Science and Technology. She worked with MTN Rwanda before moving to Rwanda Civil Aviation Authority in 2011 where she has been working till today.

SOUTH AFRICA

Acting Health Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane hasn’t had an easy first week on the job, after stepping into the shoes vacated by Zweli Mkhize. After just a few days in the role, MKN is having to face up to some sobering realities – namely that the stalled vaccine drive could be a factor in South Africa implementing a tougher lockdown.

KENYA

Plans are underway for the Industrial Bank (DB) to support Small and Medium Size Enterprises in Busia County. This comes after the request by Governor Sospeter Ojaamong for the Institution to partner with the County in order to promote the development of SMEs in the County.

TANZANIA

PRESIDENT Samia Suluhu Hassan has ordered the Ministry of Minerals to come up with a system which will enhance effective control and protection of tanzanite in the market. President Samia issued the order in Mwanza region on Sunday when she was launching Mwanza Precious Metals Refinery, worth 12.2bn/-.

ETHIOPIA

Gebreegziabher Aregawi, Director of the Tigray Regional State Agricultural and Rural Development Bureau Disaster Risk Management Directorate, said that 6.3 people in Tigray require immediate humanitarian assistance.  Tigray TV quoted the director as saying, the number of people who needed humanitarian aid before the commencement of aid distribution was 4.5 million while displaced people of 1.7 million totaling 6.2 million people are in need of daily aid out of which 3.3 million have been given food supplements and other aid materials.

EGYPT

In an official letter sent on Friday evening to the United Nations SeAt the invitation of the mayor of Airaines, Albert Noblesse, the Gabonese delegation led by their Excellencies Ladies Liliane Massala, Ambassador High Representative of Gabon in France and Rachel Anick Ogoula Akiko marries Obiang Meyo, Permanent Delegate of Gabon to UNESCO and their collaborators took part, last Sunday, in the commemorations marking the 81st anniversary of the battles of the Somme and Airaines in memory of many valiant soldiers of the 7th company of the first battalion of the 53rd Senegalese Mixed Colonial Infantry Regiment (RIMCS), commanded by Captain Charles N’Tchoréré, a French officer of Gabonese origin who fought in Airaines on June 5, 6 and 7, 1940. curity Council, Egypt has expressed its rejection to Ethiopia intention to continue filling the controversial Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) during the upcoming flood season due in July.

GABON

At the invitation of the mayor of Airaines, Albert Noblesse, the Gabonese delegation led by their Excellencies Ladies Liliane Massala, Ambassador High Representative of Gabon in France and Rachel Anick Ogoula Akiko marries Obiang Meyo, Permanent Delegate of Gabon to UNESCO and their collaborators took part, last Sunday, in the commemorations marking the 81st anniversary of the battles of the Somme and Airaines in memory of many valiant soldiers of the 7th company of the first battalion of the 53rd Senegalese Mixed Colonial Infantry Regiment (RIMCS), commanded by Captain Charles N’Tchoréré, a French officer of Gabonese origin who fought in Airaines on June 5, 6 and 7, 1940.

THE GAMBIA

The Banjul High Court Annex on Wednesday 9th June 2021, adjourned all criminal cases due to the lack of proper electricity facilities. The presiding judge of the Banjul High Court Annex, Justice A. Bakre, arrived as early as 9 am, but did not sit owing to the lack of electrical facilities. Criminal matters are mostly heard on Wednesdays. While lawyers, accused persons, members of the public and prison wardens were all seated waiting for the judge, they were informed by the clerk that the judge won’t be sitting.

SOUTH SUDAN

South Sudan’s former Minister of Petroleum, Ezekiel Lol Gatkuoth has expressed his disappointment at the decision of London based Hyve group to move this year’s Africa Oil Week to Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE). Organisers say the event, initially scheduled for Cape Town, South Africa, from November 1-5, has been moved to Dubai from November 8-11.

DNT News, Accra