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CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

Sudan says provincial governor killed in car crash

9:59 pm December 27, 2020

Khartoum: A Sudanese provincial governor was killed in a car crash Sunday in the country’s southeast that also injured four others, authorities said. Abdel-Rahman Nour-el-Daem al-Tom, governor of Blue Nile province, was heading to the capital on official business when his vehicle overturned close to the city of Wad Madani, around 135 kilometers (85 miles) […]

Fire at Egyptian hospital kills 7 coronavirus patients

6:17 pm December 26, 2020

Cairo: An intensive care unit at an Egyptian hospital caught fire on Saturday, killing seven coronavirus patients, officials said. Local police said the blaze erupted at a private hospital in Obour, an outlying district of the greater Cairo area. The fire injured at least five others. The injured and other patients were evacuated to nearby hospitals, the […]

New strain of COVID-19 is driving South Africa’s resurgence

4:35 pm December 21, 2020

Johannesburg : South Africa has announced that a new variant of the COVID-19 virus is driving the current resurgence of the disease, with higher numbers of confirmed cases, hospitalizations, and deaths. The new variant, known as 501.V2, is dominant among new confirmed infections in South Africa, according to health officials and scientists leading the country’s […]

Militaries of South Sudan, Uganda confirm clash near border

11:45 pm October 29, 2020

Juba: South Sudan’s army has accused Uganda’s army of making a “major incursion” into its territory that led to fighting in which two South Sudanese soldiers were killed. Uganda’s military confirms an “incident” between the two armies but says it happened within Uganda. South Sudan in a statement alleged that the Ugandan military crossed the border Tuesday in Magwi […]

Ethiopia blasts Trump remark that Egypt will ‘blow up’ dam

11:44 pm October 24, 2020

Addis Ababa: Ethiopia on Saturday denounced “belligerent threats” over the huge dam it has nearly completed on the Blue Nile River, a day after U.S. President Donald Trump said downstream Egypt will “blow up” the project it has called an existential threat. Without naming Trump or the US, the statement by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s office came […]