•Ebola outbreak Kenya has reported its first-ever Ebola death, the health minister announced today, after a Kenyan man who had been living in the Democratic Republic of Congo died after returning to the country. The man, who has not been named, fell ill around a month ago and had been treated in the DRC, Health […]
The stage is set for the groundbreaking ceremony of the Dangote East Africa Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals SEZ, to holding today, Wednesday in Mokowe, Lamu County, Kenya. The proposed refinery, estimated to cost about $16 billion, is expected to have a processing capacity of 700,000 barrels per day and is targeted for completion by 2030...
•Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri, Morocco’s newly appointed head of government The king of Morocco yesterday named Marrakesh mayor Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri the country’s first woman prime minister, the royal cabinet announced, after her party won last week’s parliamentary elections. Her centre-right Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM) had domi...
•Kenyan President William Ruto (2nd right) with Aliko Dangote(2nd left), in Lagos last week A Kenyan court has ordered parties to maintain the status quo over land earmarked for Dangote Group’s proposed 700,000-barrel-per-day refinery in Lamu, just a day before the planned groundbreaking ceremony. The Malindi Environment and Land Court issued...
•Members of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) The death toll from a mass shooting at a South African tavern west of Johannesburg has risen to 18 following the death of another victim in the hospital, police said Monday, adding that at least two of the dead were Lesotho nationals. The shooting late Saturday […]
Dangote Group is developing its planned Lamu Refinery in Kenya with power-generation capacity twice that of its Nigerian refinery, and it will also introduce heavier processing equipment and a coker in the East African project. The power plant at the Lamu Refinery will generate about 1,000 megawatts (MW), with 500MW expected to be available fo...
•Missing Nigerian, Basil Ekoh Twenty-six years after Basil O. Ekoh disappeared in San Pedro, Côte d’Ivoire, his family has renewed its appeal for information that could help establish his whereabouts. Ekoh, a Nigerian citizen from Ihe in Awgu Local Government Area of Enugu State, was 35 years old when he went missing on March 25, […]...
•Aliko Dangote Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote, Ethiopia and Djibouti are set to develop a $660m refined petroleum products pipeline linking the two East African countries. A spokesperson in the office of Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed disclosed this today, reports Reuters. The project will include a 120-kilometre pipeline, alongside s...
•Ebola outbreak The United States announced yesterday the release of an additional $267 million to support the fight against the ongoing Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). “To date, the United States government has provided $887 million in direct health and humanitarian assistance to combat the Ebola outbreak,” the U...
•Xenophobia More Nigerians are expected to return to Nigeria from South Africa this week due to xenophobic attacks against Nigerians and other foreign nationals. Sources familiar with the development confirmed this to our correspondent last night, saying a number of Nigerians are expected to arrive in the country. The development comes amid re...
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