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2021-07-02 12:21:05 Nigeria: Netflix Introduces New Mobile Plan With Partial Download Feature
‍[This Day] Last year, Netflix tested two mobile plan options to see if subscribers will embrace them. Following a positive outcome of the tests, the streamer has now launched mobile plan across sub-Saharan Africa.
Forty-three countries in the continent, including Nigeria, can now access the plan which costs as low as N1,200/$3.99, almost 60% of the basic plan.
In rolling out this plan, Netflix understands that people have different entertainment preferences. Adding a mobile plan gives consumers more choice no matter
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2021-07-01 02:24:06 Ethiopia: 'Opportunity Must Not Be Lost' - Five Former U.S. Ambassadors to Ethiopia on Events in Tigray
‍[allAfrica] This statement was provided to AllAfrica by five former American ambassadors who led U.S. representation in Ethiopia for 13 of the past 25 years. The career diplomats welcome the cease-fire declaration by the Ethiopian government and issue an urgent call for humanitarian relief to the strife-torn Tigray region.
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We the undersigned former U.S. Chiefs of Mission to Ethiopia, having closely followed the tragic conflict in Tigray which erupted in November 2020, were greatly relieved at the chance for
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2021-07-01 01:33:05 Malawi: Mutharika Refuses to Sign UK Govt.'s Decision to Stop Health Funding
‍[Nyasa Times] Malawi's former President Professor Arthur Peter Mutharika has allegedly refused to append his signature on United Kingdom Government's decision to stop health funding on Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) to the Southeast landlocked African nation and a former British colony and about a two-dozen other African states.
Mutharika, who is President of the deposed Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has joined 32 other Former African Heads of State and Government, operating under the banner, African Forum, in
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2021-06-30 23:21:09 Tanzania: U.S. Exudes Readiness to Help Tanzania's Covid-19 Jabs Agenda
‍[Citizen] The United States government said on Tuesday that it will help Tanzania in its plan to make Covid-19 vaccines available to those willing to get the jabs.
Speaking during her maiden press conference as Head of State on Monday, President Samia Suluhu Hassan said upon ascending to the Presidency, she formed a committee that among others, advises the government especially on the types of vaccines, manufacturing countries and funds sourcing.
"During our recent cabinet meeting, we decided that we are going for v
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2021-06-30 23:21:04 Namibia: Jazz Musician Pande Dies After Contracting Covid-19
‍[Namibian] Singer, songwriter and former member of Fu Jazz Band Raymond Pande died of Covid-19 on 28 June at a hospital in Windhoek.
His wife, Nikita, says the artist was admitted to hospital on 17 June.
"He had a great love for music. He was a passionate writer. He started singing in the shower when he was a little boy. His great music has helped to make the world a better place. I will never forget him."
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2021-06-30 22:03:06 Tanzania: Economy My Priority, Says President Samia
‍[Citizen] President Samia Suluhu Hassan said yesterday that boosting Tanzania's economy - whose growth has been slowed down by the viral the Covid-19 pandemic - remains her key priority, and asking to be given time to achieve that.
Tanzania's economy grew by 4.8 percent last year, against a projection of 5.6 percent due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Speaking during her maiden press conference, President Hassan said public rallies by politicians, as well as the proposed new constitution agenda, will be revived - but only
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2021-06-30 21:27:04 Uganda: Registration for Covid Relief Cash Starts
‍[Monitor] The government will today start registering the expanded 16 identified vulnerable groups eligible to receive Shs100,000 Covid-19 relief cash, whose disbursement is expected to start within the next two weeks.
Cabinet on Monday resolved that the registration of beneficiaries will be conducted by officials of Uganda Bureau of Statistics (Ubos) and town clerks, an unexplained departure from previous official proclamations that Local Council (LC) I chairpersons would superintend the exercise.
It was deemed tha
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2021-06-30 20:09:06 Sudan: Darfur - UNAMID Drawdown Complete As 'Liquidation Phase' Begins
‍[Radio Dabanga] The African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) will complete its drawdown exercise tomorrow (30 June 2021), as requested by UN Security Council resolution 2559 (2020), which ended the Mission's mandate at the end of last year.
A statement issued by the Mission today points out that "over the past four months, UNAMID handed over 14 team sites to the government, who committed to using them for civilian purposes as in line with the Framework Agreement signed on 4 March 2021. Facilities a
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2021-06-30 19:24:18 Africa 'Tech Hub' Aims to Fill COVID-19 Vaccine Gap
‍[SciDev.Net] Africa could start using locally manufactured COVID-19 vaccines next year after the World Health Organization (WHO) announced plans for the first mRNA technology transfer hub in South Africa.
Messenger RNA or mRNA is an advanced technology that forms the basis of the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines. It works by teaching cells how to make a protein that triggers an immune response inside the body.
The WHO says the transfer hubs will allow mRNA technology to be established at industrial scale w
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2021-06-30 19:24:13 South Africa: Jacob Zuma Isn't a Man With a Cause. Just a Wily Politician Trying to Evade the Law
‍[The Conversation Africa] South Africa's Constitutional Court ruling to imprison the country's former president, Jacob Zuma, was unprecedented. But it wasn't unexpected. The author of the majority judgment, Justice Sisi Khampepe, captured the inevitability of the outcome somewhere in the middle the ruling, when she noted:
For I am not in the habit of playing my cards close to my chest, let me, at this earliest opportunity, state that Mr Zuma has earned himself a punitive sanction of direct and unsuspended sentence.
Nor was Zuma's w
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