By Aluta News Oct. 26, 2021 A South African judge on Tuesday dismissed an application by former president Jacob Zuma to have the prosecutor in his arms deal corruption trial removed. Zuma, ousted by the governing African National Congress in 2018, had argued that the prosecutor was biased against himContinue Reading
By Aluta News Oct. 25, 2021 South Africa’s President, Cyril Ramaphosa, has called for “urgent” international cooperation on new media and information literacy to combat new threat of global misinformation via social networking platforms. The South African leader made the call in his remarks at the high-level opening session ofContinue Reading
By Aluta News Oct. 25, 2021 The Malian government has declared the Special Representative of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) “persona non grata” and given him 72 hours to leave the country, according to a statement. The statement issued on Monday by the Malian Ministry of ForeignContinue Reading
By Aluta News Oct. 22, 2021 Chinese President Xi Jinping says his country will use the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations with Nigeria to promote strategic partnership to new heights. Mr Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, inContinue Reading
By Aluta News Oct. 22, 2021 German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s EU counterparts lined up to pay her tribute on Friday at what may well be the conservative stalwart’s final summit after almost 16 years in office. Austrian Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg hailed her as a “great European,” while Luxembourg’s Prime Minister XavierContinue Reading
By Aluta News Oct. 22, 2021 Chinese President, Xi Jinping, to attend a commemorative meeting marking the 50th anniversary of the restoration of People’s Republic of China’s lawful seat in the United Nations on Oct.25. Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Hua Chunying, said on Friday that the president would deliver an importantContinue Reading
By Aluta News Oct. 21, 2021 The World Health Organisation (WHO) says between 80,000 and 180,000 health and care workers may have died from Coronavirus (COVID-19) globally between January of 2020 and May, 2021. WHO gave the estimate in a new working paper: “The impact of COVID-19 on health andContinue Reading
By Aluta News Oct. 20, 2021 A Hebrew prayer book created around 700 years ago in what is now the German state of Bavaria has been auctioned in New York for around 8.3 million dollars. The illustrated prayer book, known as a mahzor, fetched the highest price ever at anContinue Reading
By Aluta News Oct. 19, 2021 Another quake has shaken people on the Greek island of Crete and in towns on Turkey’s south-western coast. The 6.1-magnitude quake struck at around 8.30 a.m. (0530 GMT) on Tuesday morning, centred in the sea about 130 kilometres southeast of islands such as CreteContinue Reading
By Aluta News Oct. 19, 2021 The central parity rate of the Chinese currency renminbi, or the yuan, weakened 7 pips to 6.4307 against the U.S. dollar Tuesday, according to the China Foreign Exchange Trade System. In China’s spot foreign exchange market, the yuan is allowed to rise or fallContinue Reading