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(CNN) Mali's President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita announced his immediate resignation on state television late Tuesday, hours after he and the Prime Minister were  arrested by mutinous soldiers  in a coup. Tuesday's events sparked international condemnation and are likely to further destabilize the West African nation, following months of anti-government mass protests and a rising insurgency from Islamist militants. Wearing a blue surgical mask amid the coronavirus pandemic, the President said on national broadcaster ORTM that he had little choice but to stand down to avoid bloodshed, and that the country's national assembly and government would now be dissolved. Why the Mali coup could worry Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron For seven years I have with great joy and happiness tried to put this country back on its feet," Keita said. "If today some people from the armed forces have decided to end it by their intervention, do I have a choice? I should submit to it becaus

File photo: Barcelona’s Spanish coach Quique Setien reacts during the UEFA Champions League quarter-final football match between Barcelona and Bayern Munich at the Luz stadium in Lisbon on August 14, 2020. Rafael Marchante / POOL / AFP   Barcelona have sacked Quique Setién as coach of the first team  with a new manager set to be announced later. “The new coach will be announced in the coming days as part of a wide-ranging restructuring of the first team,” Barca tweeted on Monday.   Setien was only appointed in January but has paid the price for Barca surrendering the La Liga title to Real Madrid and then being humiliated by Bayern Munich in the Champions League.   File photo: Bayern Munich’s German forward Thomas Mueller (R) celebrates with Bayern Munich’s German midfielder Serge Gnabry after scoring a goal during the UEFA Champions League quarter-final football match between Barcelona and Bayern Munich at the Luz stadium in Lisbon on August 14, 2020. (Photo by Rafael Marchante / POOL

Nigeria will resume international flight operations on August 29, the Federal Government has announced. The Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, made the announcement on Monday in Abuja at the briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19. He explained that the process for the resumption of international flights in the country would be similar to that of the domestic flight resumption. According to the minister, the resumption will commence on Saturday next week at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) in Lagos and the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja, the nation’s capital. He thanked Nigerians for their patience while the ban on international flights was enforced and gave an assurance that the protocols and procedures for resumption would be announced in due course. Sirika also announced the resumption of international flights via his Twitter handle. . 

Bishop David Oyedepo  Lauretta Onochie, media aide to President Muhammadu Buhari has reacted to the warning by the founder and General Overseer of the Living Faith Church, also known as Winners Chapel, Bishop David Oyedepo, against the application of the  Company and Allied Matters Acts, CAMA, in churches. Oyedepo on Sunday warned that the church is directly connected to God and therefore does not operate under the rules of men. Under the new CAMA law signed on August 7 by President Buhari, religious bodies (churches and mosques) as well as charity organisations, will be strictly regulated by the Registrar-General of Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) and a supervising minister. According to Oyedepo, such laws were borne of out of the jealousy of “wicked leaders” about the prosperity recorded by the church. Reacting, Onochie on her Twitter page, declared that Oyedepo will have to live by the laws in Nigeria or manufacture his own country. Her tweet read: “Hope this is not true. If it i

The Lagos State Government has extended hours of operations of food and non-food markets. They are to open at 8am and close at 6pm hencefort.  In a statement by Commissioner for Local Government and Community Affairs, Dr Wale Ahmed, the decision by Governor Babajide Sanwoolu is to further enhance trade and commerce as well as mitigate hardship of the COVID-19 pandemic. Ahmed emphasised the alternate days of operations will remains in force whereby food markets open on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday while non -food markets open on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. He urged all traders to adhere strictly to the Covid-19 protocols for their safety and the citizenry at large.

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  Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's side are bidding to make their first final of the season in the most surreal of circumstances in Cologne, Germany In normal circumstances, Cologne in western  Germany  would be full of  Manchester United  fans ducking in and out of the bars and restaurants in the shadows of the city’s gothic cathedral. However, this is 2020. The coronavirus pandemic has changed everything. Normal circumstances no longer exist. Aside from a handful of United fans who flew out on Sunday to be in Cologne for the quarter-final clash against Copenhagen, and a giant replica trophy which could be found on the banks of the Rhine, you wouldn’t know there’s a football festival taking place here. Walking around the heavily locked-down RheinEnergieStadion on Monday, as  United faced Copenhagen in the quarter-finals,  locals were going about their daily tasks, exercising in the park and training on an athletics track. Article continues below There were no scarf sellers, no merchandise s