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Sudan foreign ministry spokesman sacked after Israel deal comment

Haidar Badawi has been fired a day after he said there is 'no reason to continue hostility between Sudan and Israel'. Sudan's foreign ministry spokesman has been dismissed after making allegedly unauthorised comments indicating there were contacts with Israel regarding normalising ties. The development on Wednesday comes after the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Israel announced last week that they were to establish diplomatic ties, a deal denounced by the Palestinians as a "betrayal" of their cause. The agreement makes the UAE only the third Arab nation - after Egypt and Jordan - to have full ties with Israel. Sudanese acting Foreign Minister Omar Qamar al-Din "has dismissed Haidar Badawi from his position as spokesman and head of the media division" at the ministry...

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Serge Gnabry Has Had An Incredible Change In Fortunes In Five Years

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What a difference five years can make. In 2015, Serge Gnabry was sent on loan to West Bromwich Albion in the hope of getting regular game-time and therefore giving him a better chance of working his way into the Arsenal side. It did not happen. The German winger played a total of 137 minutes, including a cameo against Chelsea in the Premier League and two appearances n the League Cup Tony Pulis, manager at the time, did not believe that Gnabry was equipped for the demands for regular Premier League football and explained why he wasn't getting a look-in beyond September. "Serge has come here to play games but he just hasn't been for me, at the moment, at that level to play the games," Pulis told the Express & Star newspaper back in October 2015. "He's come from academy ...

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25- Year Old is Behind Mali’s Coup!

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The masterminds of Mali's coup that ousted President Ibrahim Keïta on Tuesday include the deputy head of a military camp and a French-trained general. BBC Monitoring has profiled three high-ranking military leaders thought to have played key roles in the coup. 1. Col Malick Diaw Col. Malick Diaw, the number one behind the Mali Coup. He is the deputy head of the Kati camp where the mutiny started. There is very little information about him apart from reports that he recently returned from training in Russia. He stood next to Air Force deputy chief of staff Col-Major Ismael Wagué who read a statement on Wednesday on behalf of the junta to announce the military takeover. "Colonel Diaw is believed to be the leader of the mutiny at Kati camp, 15km [nine miles] from Bamakoi...

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Why is People Power So Popular in Buganda?

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By Timothy Kalyegira I've not in a long time seen Baganda, elite and ordinary, feel so motivated, so filled with conviction and an uplifting of their spirit, as during this political phenomenon called People Power. It's something refreshing to witness. The region had in recent years started losing all sense of hope and self-belief. Baganda felt their area was fading into humiliating inconsequence. On Sunday Jan. 26, 2020 during a political discussion on 94.1 Bilal FM in Kampala, the opposition politician Michael Mabbike made a statement that has stuck in my mind all year. Mabbike warned that in the next ten years, Baganda will find themselves the first people in Uganda to have no land of their own. That statement cut through me. It crystallised the underlying fe...

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Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania learn new Afcon, World Cup qualifying calendars

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The fresh timeline has been released after the initial fixtures were postponed due to the emergence of the Covid-19 global pandemic Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania have learned the new dates for the Africa Cup of Nations Cameroon 2021 and the group stage of the Fifa World Cup Qatar 2022 qualifiers. The scheduled fixtures had been postponed after the coronavirus pandemic forced the suspension of most football action in the continent. But the CAF Emergency Committee has approved the resumption of the qualifiers which means the three East African countries will have to honour the matches in a condensed calendar. Doubleheaders have been scheduled between November this year and November 2021 as teams will be expected to scramble for the available slots for both the Afcon fina...

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