Nigeria, Lagos
Policemen in Nigeria's biggest city, Lagos, have freed 19 women and girls who had mostly been kept and impregnated by captors planning to sell their babies.
The said girls and women, ...View MoreNigeria, Lagos
Policemen in Nigeria's biggest city, Lagos, have freed 19 women and girls who had mostly been kept and impregnated by captors planning to sell their babies.
The said girls and women, aged from 15 to 28, were gathered from all over Nigeria with promises of work, police information reported on Monday. Four babies were also found with the suspects.
"Baby factories", as such premises are widely known, are most common in parts of eastern Nigeria.
The girls were tricked with employment as domestic staff in Lagos," said Lagos police spokesperson Bala Elkana.
"Boys are sold for 500,000 naira ($1,630) and girls for 300,000 naira ($980)."
The girls and women were brought from the southern and eastern states of Rivers, Cross River, Akwa Ibom, Anambra, Abia and Imo.
Elkana said the raid had taken place on September 19 but had been kept secret to enable the police to apprehend suspects. Investigators are still on the matter.
Rwanda, Kigali.
Mara Phones ' opening of a smartphone manufacturing plant in Rwanda is an important milestone in Rwanda's engineering gadget development path.
This is part of the broader Made in Rwa...View MoreRwanda, Kigali.
Mara Phones ' opening of a smartphone manufacturing plant in Rwanda is an important milestone in Rwanda's engineering gadget development path.
This is part of the broader Made in Rwanda campaign that the country has embarked on, according to President Paul Kagame.
Kagame was speaking on Monday at the launch of the Mara Phones production plant at the Kigali Special Economic Zone in Gasabo District. It is the only facility on the African continent that produces smartphones.
The Head of State welcomed the development by noting that the phone is joining a growing list of high-quality, country-made products.
"Mara Phone is joining a growing list of high-quality products manufactured in our country. It's not a simple matter to manufacture smartphones. Nearly 1,000 individual components are involved as we were taken throughout the entire process.
The plant is therefore a complex manufacturing operation requiring significant technical skill and expertise, said the Head of State, adding that, “it is another milestone on our journey to high-tech, “Made-in-Rwanda” industry,” the President said.
Technology is expected to improve ownership and use of smartphones in Rwanda, improving access and delivery of public services and financial inclusion among other issues.
So far, about 200 people are employed at the firm with 90 per cent of them being Rwandans. At full capacity, the firm will employ up to 650.
Ashish Thakkar, the Chief Executive Officer of the firm said that they seek to be a dominant player in the continent hence investing in high-quality production.
The Minister of ICT and Innovation Paula Ingabire said that beyond tax incentives, the Rwandan government works with investors such as Mara to establish ideal conditions for market entry including linking them to markets, matching labour demand and supply among others.
President Pierre Nkurunziza dies of heart attack at the age of 55yrs
The Nigerian singer-songwriter and guitarist Majekodunmi Fasheke is known as Majek Fashek died on the 1st of June at the age of 57yrs, this wonderful artisit released his debut album named the Prisone...View MoreThe Nigerian singer-songwriter and guitarist Majekodunmi Fasheke is known as Majek Fashek died on the 1st of June at the age of 57yrs, this wonderful artisit released his debut album named the Prisoner of Conscience in 1988, featuring a multiple award-winning "Bring down the storm," "Free Mandela" became some of the most popular tunes in his home country.
In a statement from United Nations Secretary-General and Executive Director Vera Songwe of the Economic Commission for Africa, $100 billion is needed for counties of the world to support African count...View MoreIn a statement from United Nations Secretary-General and Executive Director Vera Songwe of the Economic Commission for Africa, $100 billion is needed for counties of the world to support African countries in their needs of fighting COVID19. "The need is $100 billion to provide all the countries with immediate fiscal space to help address the immediate needs of communities in terms of security networks to safeguard the continent's mutual economic prosperity.
In addition, the oil price that accounts for 40% of AfricaN countries exports have halved value, while the other African exports, such as textiles and fresh-cut flowers have plummeted. In the meantime, touristic activity has effectively halted as did the aii, which accounts for up to 38% of some African countries' GDP.
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South Africa
Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa dies in Lusikisiki
Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa was born July 21, 1921 He is a South African Zulu SANGOMA (traditional healer). He is renowned as an author of books f...View MoreSouth Africa
Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa dies in Lusikisiki
Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa was born July 21, 1921 He is a South African Zulu SANGOMA (traditional healer). He is renowned as an author of books focused on African myths, traditional folklore of Zulu, extraterrestrial experiences and personal interactions with himself. His most recent work is a graphic novel called the Tree of Life Trilogy based on his writings of his most popular book, Indaba My Children. In 2018, he was given a USIBA award by the Department of Arts and Culture of South Africa for his research in Aboriginal Wisdom.
Credo calls himself a sanusi (common spelling isanuse) that is a form of Zulu diviner, HEALER or sangoma . The word originates from a more historical period and is not commonly used except in a conventional setting today. Credo currently resides in Kuruman with his partner, Virginia Mutwa, where they run a hospice clinic.
Credo claimed Africans were forced away from their traditional origins by the great uprising in Johannesburg and the popularization of communism in the black struggle. In fact, unlike most political activists, he advocated a division between white and black in order to maintain black traditional tribal traditions and way of life. In 1976, after being misquoted on Afrikaans radio, students partially burned the cultural village, as they saw the village supporting tribalism and separate development.Parts of the village were again burned in the mid-80s.
After his son's murder by black political "activists," and his village's second burning, Credo moved off Soweto and set up Lotlamoreng, Mahikeng, a culturally touristy village (then known as Bophuthatswana). The Kwa-Khaya Lendaba cultural village in Soweto is currently being restored to free public access and remains open for the general public. It is currently under the control of the development of small cultural villages, each reflecting traditional cultures in the main South African tribal communities. The village guardian is providing tour guides.
Although though the Africans they were expected to portray in many of the sculptures in the Kwa-Khaya Lendaba were obscure, many of them are considered to be symbolic in nature. The predictions of the arrival of HIV / AIDS in South Africa were most notably made. This has been seen in King Khandakhulu's fictional sculptures, which had 200 women. He couldn't satisfy everyone emotionally so they went out and sat down somewhere, exposing them to incurable sexually transmitted infections. The pitfalls on the penis of King Khandakhulu are close to the AIDS unit. Sculpture was created in 1979 3 years before the human immunodeficiency virus was discovered by scientists.
Mozambique
64 Migrants found dead in mozambique truck containers
Officials said on Tuesday that Immigration officers in Mozambique have discovered 64 migrants ' bodies in a shipping container haule...View MoreMozambique
64 Migrants found dead in mozambique truck containers
Officials said on Tuesday that Immigration officers in Mozambique have discovered 64 migrants ' bodies in a shipping container hauled by a truck coming from neighboring Malawi.
Officials in the south-east African nation said the dead were possibly suffocated in the container, the refugees had come from Ethiopia.
In the western province of Tete, some 80 miles northeast of the Mozambique-Zimbabwe border, fourteen other migrants were still alive when the truck was opened and looked into. Immigration officials said sounds had come from inside the container which lead them to open the container.
A government spokesman said a preliminary investigation found that the truck driver, a native Mozambican, had illegal entry from Malawi into the former Portuguese colony.
The case is being investigated by Mozambique's national police and Maputo's immigration, health, and justice ministries.
The driver and another suspect were jailed, officials said.
African-jazz legend from Cameroon, Manu Dibango dies because of coronavirus in Paris, France
The family of the musician, best known for the 1972 hit "Soul Makossa," announced last week on his Facebo...View MoreAfrican-jazz legend from Cameroon, Manu Dibango dies because of coronavirus in Paris, France
The family of the musician, best known for the 1972 hit "Soul Makossa," announced last week on his Facebook page that after contracting the virus, he was admitted to hospital in Paris.
They revealed in FRANCE on Tuesday that the jazz star had passed away, claiming that it had been attributed to coronavirus.
Dibango was very familiar of late South African star Johnny Clegg who died of cancer last year in July. Dibango has also worked with legendary Hugh Masekela.
COVID 19
To understand why the world economy is in grave danger due to the spread of coronavirus, it helps to comprehend one concept which is instinctively obvious and sneakily profound at once.
Exp...View MoreCOVID 19
To understand why the world economy is in grave danger due to the spread of coronavirus, it helps to comprehend one concept which is instinctively obvious and sneakily profound at once.
Expenditure on one person is revenue for another individual. That's what the $ trillion global economy is in a single explanation. The relationship, between spending and profits, consumption and production, is at the core of how a capitalist economy works. This is the base of a perpetual motion mechanism. We buy the things we want and need, and give money in return to the people who made those things, who in turn use that money to buy the things they want and need, and so on and so forth.
What is so profoundly troubling about the virus possible economic ripple effects is that it needs this perpetual motion machine to come to an almost complete halt, for an indeterminate period of time, through large chunks of the economy.
No industrial economy has ever encountered something of this nature. We simply do not know how the economic system can react to the harm that is beginning to happen, nor how difficult or quick it will be to turn it back on again.
Thanks to statistical tables from the global governments, we can appreciate the sheer scale of the economic sectors that appear to be entering a near shut down. The US and most of the world are on the brink of a massive shrinkage of consumer expenditure, which in turn would mean less economic production and lower wages for the people delivering those services.
They also invested $586 billion on leisure facilities (on tickets to sporting events or casino gambling losses). And they invested $1.02 trillion on food and hospitality facilities (restaurant meals and hotel stays, but no grocery stores took home food).
That adds up to $2.1 trillion a year, 14 percent of overall spending on consumption— which seems likely to dry up for at least a few weeks and maybe longer. We don't know how much these numbers of consumption will decrease, and how long it will be by a lot.
And what does such a fall in spending in these big categories mean revenues on the other side of the ledger?
There are a lot of places going to the income from those industries. It directly charges workers for their work. It's for manufacturers. This charges taxes to fund police and school teachers, leases to compensate land owners, and dividends to investors. All of those cash flows are threatened as spending on sales plunge. After all these a new world economic order will rise.
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