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Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza Dies at Age 55

9 Jun 2020 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite

Burundi's government states that President Pierre Nkurunziza has died after suffering a cardiac arrest. Initially admitted to the hospital on Saturday, June 6th, 2020, after feeling unwell, his condition initially improved but he suffered a cardiac a...

Kenya Bans Single-Use Plastics from National Parks, Beaches, and Forests

6 Jun 2020 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite

Coinciding with World Environment Day, Kenyan authorities have banned all single-use plastics such as water bottles, disposable cutlery, plastic bags, and straws from national parks, beaches, forests, and protected regions. The new ban comes three ye...

Africa to adopt and embrace Crypto: here's why that can be a positive move to all Crypto space.

6 Jun 2020 1 minute read 0 comments alberdioni8406

Differently from other parts of the globe Africa will be in few years an heaven for cryto and it will be a positive move to all Crypto market. Africa reasons to adopt and embrace Cryptocurrency are driven by the fact that mostly people on the contine...

Madagascar Ministry of Education Fired Over 2 Million Dollar Lollipop Order

6 Jun 2020 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite

Madagascar's Minister of Education Rijasoa Andriamanana has been fired after attempting to purchase the equivalent of about 2.2 million United States dollars worth of lollipops for schoolchildren to "mask" the bitter aftertaste of an untested herbal...

World's Deepest Gold Mine Halts Operation Due to Covid-19

24 May 2020 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite

Operations at the Mponeng mine in South Africa, the world's deepest gold mine, have been halted after 164 confirmed cases of the Covid-19 coronavirus. The mine was operating at about 50% capacity after resuming operations last month after being close...

BIC Art Master Competition : Africa 2019

21 May 2020 2 minute read 0 comments Jaemoney

Introduction I thought I'd talk about this competition I took part in about 8 months ago. I posted the pictures before, but I never included the thought processes at the time. As mush as art is a visual medium there can be lots of concepts behind the...

Kenya Closes Land Borders with Tanzania and Somalia

17 May 2020 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite

In an attempt to reduce the transmission of the Covid-19 coronavirus, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has ordered the closure of the nation's land borders with Tanzania and Somalia effective midnight local time on Saturday. The closure will exempt ca...

Tunisia Records 0 New Covid-19 Coronavirus Cases

12 May 2020 1 minute read 3 comments AverageVancouverite

For the first time since early March, 2020, health authorities in Tunisia have recorded no new cases of the Covid-19 coronavirus in a single day. As of now, the nation has reported a total of 1,032 cases of the virus alongside 45 Covid-19-related dea...

Africa and the Lockdown

10 May 2020 1 minute read 0 comments pensebien

We are closing down our borders from Coronavirus #COVID19 in #Africa. In America, we see faces of infected people, in Europe, we see people on sick beds reporting of the disease. When would we see one face come out and say s/he has coronavirus in Afr...

Ivory Coast Eases Some Lockdown Restrictions

9 May 2020 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite

Announcing "satisfactory results" and no new cases "in the interior of the country since April 21st", President Alassane Ouattara of Ivory Coast announced on live television the easing of some lockdown restrictions, but warned that "we have not yet w...