The virus was detected in a Ivorean who returned from visiting Italy.

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There are now a dozen African countries treating COVID19 cases.

Egypt has the highest count followed by Algeria. 

The Democratic Republic of Congo has replaced South Africa in third place.

Two of the 114 cases in Africa have resulted in deaths.

Governments have taken stringent action to stop infection.

Kenya’s banned its star athletes from going abroad to compete for the next month.

Ghana and Gabon has stopped foreign travel for their  officials. Lesotho has stopped foreign travel for its citizens.

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Opposition activists are saying that even with the eyes of the world on them, the government of Joseph Kabila is trying to manipulate the result.

Diplomatic sources in the DRC say opposition candidate Martin Fayulu has beaten the government contenders Emmanuel Shadary by at least 30 points.

They base this on 40 000 observers from the Catholic Church and others from local NGOs.

Electoral Commission head Corneille Nangaa says only 47% of tally sheets have come into headquarters in Kinshasa  from the vast central African country…

….so he can’t say when the results will be announced.

President Donald Trump’s deployed troops to Gabon, one of the Congo’s nine neighbours, to protect US citizens if violence breaks out.

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A summit in Chad’s capital N’jamena ratified a 17-year-old agreement binding a market of 30-million consumers.

Equatorial Guinea and Gabon are two small, oil-rich states that have had reservations about allowing visa-free access to citizens of larger and more troubled Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The N’jamena summit brought them aboard the Central African Economic Monetary Community or CEMAC.

They’ve approved the regional development bank spending two-and-a-half million Euros as seed money for the implementation of the draft agreement signed in 2013

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African leaders, put out by critical reports issued  the continental legislators, brought them in under the African Union umbrella.

The Pan African Parliament sent observer teams to Angola, Swaziland and Zimbabwe.

Their reports differed from those of their AU colleagues. So in 2008, the continental body brought them heel.

This year PAP members will join the AU observer teams in Kenya, Senegal, Gabon, Rwanda and Angola.

But the  PAP official in charge of documentation Galal Nassir says it won’t always  be this way.

(take in PAP clip here)

Nassir says the PAP would like to see election observer teams headed by an MP rather than by a  former head of state as the AU does.

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He’s picking up the tab for heads of state arriving for the last three days of this environmental bonanza.

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French President Francois Hollande and UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon will definitely be at COP22  along with heads of state from various European, African, Middle Eastern and American countries.

President Barak Obama, along with President Vladimir Putin and German Channeler Angela Merkel, however, have not yet confirmed their attendance.

at this important international event.

The motto of this year’s Conference of the Parties is action.

COP22’s main goal is to put elements of the COP21’s Paris Agreement into motion.

Tomorrow Mohammed VI will preside over an African Summit with Presidents from Senegal, Gabon, Burkina Faso and many other African countries expected to attend.

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It involves troops from Burundi and Gabon who have been confined to to their camps while the probe is underway.

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The events reported to the U.N. by a U.S.-based advocacy group, AIDS-Free World’s Code Blue Campaign, allegedly occurred  between 2013 and 2015.

UN troops , non UN personnel and local militia are said to be implicated.

Allegations have also made against the French Sangaris forces in the same area.

Visiting the capital Bangui French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian says his country has achieved its objective of restoring security to the CAR and  will end its military intervention there this year.

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They’re meeting under the auspices of the Economic Community of Central African States. Four other countries have sent delegates.

Of the central African countries at the meeting, only Chad and Cameroon have actually experienced attacks by the extremists…

…who’ve killed more than 13 000 people these past six years – mostly in Nigeria.

The Yaounde meeting’s bent on finding an agreed solution to counter the terror group.

The presidents of Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo Brazzaville, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon are joined by ministers from Angola, Burundi, Sao Tome and Principe and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

At the previous meeting in the Cameroon capital , leaders agreed to deploy a regional force of 8700 troops against Boko Haram.

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