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We (Viewers Corner News team) are calling on the leadership of Zimbabwe to take agricultural policy serious. Since majority of the white farmers left the country (Zimbabwe), it has been from one problem to another, the worst among them is food shortage. Based on this, Viewers Corner News team is appealing to the leadership of
The former Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak who ruled Egypt for 30 years is dead. Mubarak died on Tuesday in intensive care after undergoing surgery. Former president Hosni Mubarak who was an early victim of Arab Spring revolutions in the region was ousted in a popular uprising against corruption and autocracy in 2011. Mubarak was arrested
Apartheid policy of the white minority rule in the past in South Africa was evil and a crime against humanity which is the truth, take it or leave it. However, the people of South Africa should see such past policy as part of their history. As human beings, we should always forgive those who hurt
Finally, Riek Machar and his former adversary President Salva Kiir have formed a unity government after twice pushing back deadlines to form government of national unity following a peace accord they signed in 2018. Riek Machar, the former rebel leader was on Saturday sworn in as South Sudan’s first vice president. This is one of
Our (Viewers Corner News) correspondent in Maiduguri reported that over 20 people lost their lives in a stampede on Monday when Nigerian refugees rushed to get food and clothes in the town of Diffa (a community center over the border in Niger). The community houses about 250,000 displaced people who fled Boko Haram Islamist militants’
A 25 year old Abdiwali Ali Hassan who was a TV and radio journalist in Somalia’s Afgooye district was on Sunday killed by gunmen. According to the information our correspondent in Mogadishu gathered, Abdiwali Ali Hassan was shot several times and he died on his way to hospital. As at the time of this report,
ABDIWALI ALI HASSAN, A TV JOUNALIST IN AFGOOYE DISTRICT (SOMALIA) WAS KILLED BY GUNMEN. Read More »
It was reported that a Criminal Court in Cairo was on Saturday sentenced Raouf Boutros-Ghali (who is an actor and former finance minister’s brother) to 30 years in prison for smuggling artifacts to Italy. The court also fined him (Raouf Boutros-Ghali) 6 million Egyptian pounds ($382,000). Boutros-Ghali is a brother of Yousef Boutros-Ghali (former finance
It was reported that a military appeal court in Blida, south of Algiers has upheld jail terms of the country’s former intelligence chiefs and ex-president Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s brother. The two former Algerian intelligence chiefs (Mohamed Mediene and Athmane Tartag), along with Said Bouteflika were convicted for conspiring against the army and the state authority. They
Our (Viewers Corner News) correspondent in Lilongwe reported that Malawi’s presidential election that was held on 21 May 2019 which declared President Peter Mutharika a winner has been annulled on Monday by Malawi’s Constitutional Court. The court also ordered that a new presidential re-run be held within 150 days. Malawi’s President Peter Mutharika was declared
It was reported that Hisham al-Ashmawy (a former special forces officer turned Islamic militant) and 36 others have been sentenced to death after an Egyptian court convicted them on terrorism charges. Hisham al-Ashmawy was arrested in Derna (Libyan city) in 2018 and authorities loyal to commander Khalifa Haftar extradited him to Egypt in May 2019.