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Image: Former vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa addresses supporters in Harare ::   Zimbabwe's recently sacked vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa is addressing crowds in Harare after returning to Zimbabwe on Wednesday :   He is expected to be sworn in as president on Friday, following the unexpected resignation of Robert Mugabe ::   The dismissal of Mnangagwa by Mugabe two weeks ago prompted a military takeover and the longtime president's eventual resignation. Still following updates.

The U.N. report is meant to guide almost 200 nations meeting from Nov. 6-17 in Bonn, Germany, to try to bolster the 2015 Paris climate pact despite a planned U.S. pullout. 2017 would be the hottest on record without a natural El Nino event (File) Bonn, Germany:  This year will be among the three hottest on record in a new sign of man-made climate change that is aggravating "extraordinary weather" such as hurricanes, droughts and floods, the United Nations said on Monday. The U.N. report is meant to guide almost 200 nations meeting from Nov. 6-17 in Bonn, Germany, to try to bolster the 2015 Paris climate pact despite a planned U.S. pullout. "2017 is set to be in top three hottest years," the U.N.'s World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said, projecting average surface temperatures would be slightly less sweltering than a record 2016 and roughly level with 2015, the previous warmest. And 2017 would be the hottest on record without a natural E

The Lagos State Branch of the Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria (RTEAN) has set up a taskforce to arrest members of the association driving against traffic in the state. The Chairman of the association, Alhaji Musa Muhammed, made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Monday. He said the union had set up the taskforce to support the one put in place by the Lagos State Government to prevent commercial motorcyclists from operating on highways in the state. “We are law-abiding citizens, we obey traffic rules and regulations and we want total compliance with Lagos State traffic laws. “That is why we set up the taskforce to monitor and arrest any of our members or uniformed people, plying the expressway or disobeying traffic laws.” According to him, the association is ready to support the State Government on any policy that will step up and advance the transport sector. Also speaking to NAN, Mr Sulaiman Raji, Chair

Juno was launched on August 5, 2011, from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and arrived in Jupiter's orbit on July 4,2016. Washington:  NASA's solar-powered Juno spacecraft has successfully completed its eighth science flyby over Jupiter's mysterious cloud tops, the US space agency said today. The confirmation of the flyby, performed on October 24, was delayed by several days due to a solar conjunction at Jupiter, which had affected communications during the days prior to and after the flyby, NASA said.  Solar conjunction is the period when the path of communication between Earth and Jupiter comes into close proximity with the Sun. "All the science collected during the flyby was carried in Juno's memory until yesterday, when Jupiter came out of solar conjunction," said Juno project manager, Ed Hirst, from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.  Juno's next close flyby of Jupiter will occur on December 16. "A

Image: Messages are not sending on WhatsApp Users of WhatsApp worldwide are complaining that the mobile messaging service is down. The smartphone app uses symbols to inform users of how the transmission of their message is doing. Worldwide, users are being shown the clock symbol after attempting to send a message, meaning that the message hasn't been sent to WhatsApp's servers. The website for the messaging app also appears to be down in what may be a domino effect. If a significant problem has affected WhatsApp's messaging servers causing the message issues, the resultant world-wide concern may have caused so much traffic to visit the website it has fallen down. The outage may be an embarrassment for WhatsApp's parent Facebook, which has this week announced  record revenues  from advertising. Facebook declined to comment when contacted. The Down Detector website's heat map showed reports were especially common in Europe, although complain

@TheGlobe reporters. The leader of Ohaneze Ndigbo, John Nwodo The United Nations has commended the Ohanaeze, apex Igbo socio-cultural group on the role it played in stemming the tide of agitations threatening Nigeria’s unity. The UN said it was worried about developments in Nigeria, particularly in the South-east but however noted that it stood for a united Nigeria where human rights are respected and not trampled upon. A report on Vanguard noted that UN Delegates led by Mohamed Ibn Chambas a special representative of Secretary General of UN, Antonio Guterres, on Thursday in Enugu met with the leadership of Ohanaeze Ndigbo led by its President-General, Nnia Nwodo. The meeting delved into issues of agitation for a Biafra republic and how to strengthen the unity of Nigeria. Other chieftains of Ohanaeze at the meeting includes Deputy President-General and former deputy governor of Ebonyi State, Chigozie Ogbu; Enugu State President of Ohanaeze, Alex Ogbonnia among others, the