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The International Civil Aviation Organization, ICAO, in East and Southern African office, says Africa needs to train about 1,500 aviation operators, 600 aircraft maintenance personnel, and 4000 airport operators urgently. According to the African aviation authorities, there is a serious shortage of qualified personnel amid projections that the world would need over a million pilots and maintenance staff in the ...

More than 130 Congolese have camped at Nteko, Nyabwishenya Sub-county, in Uganda. The police said the refugees are majorly children and women, fleeing violence in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The south-western regional police commander, Ms Olivia Wawiire, said the Congolese were being screened in Kisoro before they settle in Nakivale refugee settlement camp, a home to various Congolese ...

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lagos, Anthony Cardinal Okogie, has said the Islamic banking proposed by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, was a ploy to Islamise the country. He said this during the ordination of four priests at Saint Francis Catholic Church, Idimu, Lagos. He added that the CBN Governor, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, was “gradually trying to force ...