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16: 02 GMT: South African anti-apartheid veteran Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, ex-wife of the late president Nelson Mandela, is “absolutely fine” after being admitted to hospital for observation, her spokesman said on Friday.
Doctors decided on Wednesday to keep the 80-year-old former first lady in hospital after she underwent a routine checkup.
“I was with her and she’s absolutely fine,” spokesman Victor Dlamini told television broadcaster eNCA.
READ: Winnie Mandela “Absolutely Fine” In Hospital
15: 31 GMT: The International Olympic Committee froze financial support to Kenya on Thursday after the country’s troubled Olympic Committee refused to make changes to its constitution – a decision that could lead to a ban.
The IOC said it would discuss the matter at its executive board meeting in Pyeongchang next week to decide on any further action.
The IOC wants a series of new regulations addressing issues of good governance within the country’ Olympic committee (NOCK) which has been dealing with problems regarding doping, mismanagement and political pressure for some time.
14: 05 GMT: More on President Buhari’s return to Nigeria from London. The Nigerian President has said shortly after his return to Nigeria that he would need more rest and health tests after coming home from nearly two months of medical leave in Britain during which his deputy, Yemi Osinbajo, stamped his authority on economic policy.
Shortly after arriving back from London, the 74-year former general told officials he was feeling “much better” but wanted to rest over the weekend, raising questions about his ability to run Africa’s biggest economy and most populous nation.
My message to you: I’m glad to be back home, & grateful for your prayers. The best way to repay you is to rededicate myself to serving you. pic.twitter.com/vy03y6Nap1
— Muhammadu Buhari (@MBuhari) March 10, 2017
#Nigeria‘s ailing President Buhari says will need more rest at home https://t.co/3VWaL47pKe pic.twitter.com/hwmh3Ky1dX
— Reuters Africa (@ReutersAfrica) March 10, 2017
VIDEO: Buhari expresses gratitude to Nigerians pic.twitter.com/Ffvglj2NgC
— The Punch Newspapers (@MobilePunch) March 10, 2017
READ: Nigeria’s Buhari Needs More, Osinbajo To Continue Acting As President
13: 54 GMT: Madagascar has started evacuating thousands of people from flooded areas after storm waters broke dykes as the country reeled from the impact of Cyclone Enawo.
Enawo hit Madagascar’s vanilla-producing northeastern coast on Tuesday morning, destroying roads and cutting off communications with Antalaha district, which has a population of 230,000 people.
Five people were confirmed killed and seven injured late on Wednesday, while an estimated 10,000 have been displaced by what was one of Madagascar’s worst storms in years.
READ: Madagascar Begins Evacuating People Displaced By Cyclone
12: 18 GMT: Japan’s Self Defense Force will withdraw from the United Nations peacekeeping mission in South Sudan when its troops return home around the end of May, closing a controversial episode in the prime minister’s push to expand the military’s overseas role.
The primary task of Japan’s 350-strong military contingent, based in Juba for the past five years, has been to build infrastructure in the war-torn country.
“As South Sudan’s country-building is entering a new phase, we can draw a line under the activities of the self-defense forces,” Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told reporters at his residence in Tokyo on Friday.
READ: Japan To Withdraw From South Sudan Peacekeeping Mission
11: 05 GMT: Nike Inc will launch a hijab for female Muslim athletes early next year, becoming the first major sports apparel maker to offer a traditional Islamic head scarf designed specifically for competition, the company said on Wednesday.
The head covering, marketed under the “Pro Hijab” brand, is designed to allow athletes to observe the traditional Islamic practice of covering the head without compromising performance.
READ: Nike To Launch High-Tech Hijab For Female Muslim Athletes
11: 00 GMT: South Korea’s President Park Geun-hye has become the country’s first democratically elected leader to be forced from office.
Judges unanimously upheld parliament’s decision to impeach Ms Park over her role in a corruption scandal involving her close friend, Choi Soon-sil.
She now loses her presidential immunity and could face criminal charges.
South Korean President Park Geun-Hye is one of a long list of world leaders ousted for legal reasons #impeachment https://t.co/a30LzeDKHm pic.twitter.com/ZrWsXZGQ1h
— AFP news agency (@AFP) March 10, 2017
South Korea’s impeached Park not leaving presidential Blue House ‘for now’ – spokesman https://t.co/u3QTt1ZKs1 pic.twitter.com/c2YRUmxZxN
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) March 10, 2017
The removal of South Korean president Park Geun-hye from office could rewrite relations with North Korea and US https://t.co/of5mbxQawS pic.twitter.com/Crynq7hISf
— CNN (@CNN) March 10, 2017
READ: Court Ousts South Korea’s Scandal-Hit President
10:45 GMT: Archaeologists from Egypt and Germany have found a massive eight-metre statue submerged in ground water in a Cairo slum that they say probably depicts revered Pharaoh Ramses II, who ruled Egypt more than 3,000 years ago.
The discovery, hailed by the Antiquities Ministry as one of the most important ever, was made near the ruins of Ramses II’s temple in the ancient city of Heliopolis, located in the eastern part of modern-day Cairo.
“Last Tuesday they called me to announce the big discovery of a colossus of a king, most probably Ramses II, made out of quartzite,” Antiquities Minister Khaled al-Anani told Reuters on Thursday at the site of the statue’s unveiling.
READ: Historical Discovery Made By Archaeologists In Egypt
10: 38 GMT: South African taxi drivers protest against Uber:
#TaxiStrike Metered taxi drivers have gathered in the freight section of #ORTambo airport, meeting amongst themselves. TH pic.twitter.com/fOfgVF8Hcv
— EWN Reporter (@ewnreporter) March 10, 2017
#UberProtest The drivers are saying Uber is not doing enough to protect them from metered taxi drivers. CE pic.twitter.com/ClYHNQJBFY
— EWN Reporter (@ewnreporter) March 10, 2017
10: 30 GMT: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday proposed cutting payments to countries that fail to investigate sex abuse accusations against their troops deployed in peacekeeping missions, among a series of new steps aimed at stamping out the misconduct.
The United Nations has been badly shaken by the wave of allegations of sex abuse by troops it deploys in missions with a clear mandate to protect civilians.
Guterres said in an annual report that there had been 145 cases of sexual exploitation and abuse involving troops and civilians across all UN peace missions in 2016, up from 99 in 2015.
READ: UN Proposes Pay Cut To Curb Peacekeeper Sex Abuse
10: 25 GMT: Elsewhere, three US states have joined Hawaii in a legal challenge against President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban.
Mr Trump signed an executive order placing a 90-day ban on people from six mainly Muslim countries on Monday.
New York maintains the new directive is a ban on Muslims while Washington says it is harmful to the state. Oregon and Massachusetts later also joined.
READ: More US States Challenge Trump Travel Ban
09: 15 GMT: South African taxi drivers on Friday blocked roads to Johannesburg’s airport, holding up thousands of travellers in the latest protest against ride-hailing app Uber.
Uber Technologies Inc’s service has triggered protests by taxi drivers from London to Hungary and New Delhi as it upends traditional business models that require professional drivers to pay steep licensing fees to drive cabs.
Hundreds of drivers blocked the main highway to Africa’s busiest airport, O.R. Tambo International, causing long traffic jams on Friday.
“Uber is illegal,” Reuben Mzayiya, a spokesman for the metered taxi business in Gauteng province, told broadcaster 702 Talk Radio.
09: 08 GMT: The World Bank Group President Jim Yong-Kim on Thursday announced that the bank was working toward raising 1.6 billion dollars to build social protection systems to end food insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa and Yemen.
In a statement by the Head of Communications, World Bank Nigeria in Abuja, Olufunke Olufon, Yong-Kim said about 20 million people in Nigeria, South Sudan, Somalia and Yemen were on the “tipping point” of famine.
08: 50 GMT: Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari on Friday finally returned home from London, according to local media reports.
The 74-year-old leader’s plane landed at an air force base in Kaduna, the northern city of Nigeria due to the closure of the Abuja airport.
According to the PUNCH in Nigeria, Mr. Buhari has already met his Vice president, Yemi Osinbajo and other top government officials.
President Muhammad Buhari has been welcomed to Kaduna by Deputy-Governor Barnabas Bala @bantexkd pic.twitter.com/EXVLaUpGg2
— Governor Kaduna (@GovKaduna) March 10, 2017
Breaking: President Buhari arrived at exactly 7.41am, after 49days vacation. He was received by the Deputy Gov. Of Kaduna State, Bala Bantex
— Channels Television (@channelstv) March 10, 2017
I am feeling much better now, says Buhari https://t.co/NIcpsH72WO #Nigeria pic.twitter.com/UUC9Vt0I1G
— The Punch Newspapers (@MobilePunch) March 10, 2017
08: 00 GMT: South African anti-apartheid veteran Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, former wife of the late Nelson Mandela, has been admitted to hospital for observation, a statement from her family said on Thursday.
“Mrs Mandela went to the hospital for routine medical checkup on Wednesday, March 8. A decision was taken to admit her for further observation,”
Former first lady Madikizela-Mandela, 80, was in hospital for several weeks last year for back surgery.
07: 47 GMT: Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari is expected back home from London on Friday, according to local media reports.
Mr. Buhari traveled to London in January for medical check-up and had to extend his medical leave sparking speculations about his health back in Nigeria.
According to the Punch in Nigeria, President Buhari’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, disclosed in a statement that the President’s will return home on March 10. The short statement said
“President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to return to the country tomorrow, Friday, March 10, 2017”
Very pleased to welcome the Most Revd and Rt Hon @JustinWelby, Archbishop of Canterbury, to Abuja House this afternoon. pic.twitter.com/jsRxeafVxM
— Muhammadu Buhari (@MBuhari) March 9, 2017
07: 35 GMT: Two former policemen in Nigeria have been sentenced to death over the most infamous case of extrajudicial killing in the country’s modern history.
Ezekiel Achejene and Emmanuel Baba were convicted of murdering two of the Apo Six – six young civilians who were shot dead in 2005. Police initially tried to cover up the deaths, saying the victims were armed robbers who had opened fire first.
But an earlier judicial panel of inquiry rejected that story.
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