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African Newspapers 5 things you need to know this morning:

African Newspapers 5 things you need to know this morning:

Kenyan National Assembly Speaker Justin Muturi has attributed the censure motion he is facing to political interests keen to derail the House leadership’s efforts to rein in corruption. Mr Muturi interpreted the motion, the first official challenge to his authority and the first a Speaker is facing since 2005, as a clever tactic, ostensibly by the Opposition, to take attention from the graft claims that have rocked Parliament over the past month.

  1. As Nigerians prepare to go to the polls next week, President Goodluck Jonathan said in an interview broadcast Friday that he expects Boko Haram Islamists will be flushed out of all the areas they have seized within a month.
  2. The two gunmen who killed 21 people in an attack targeting foreign tourists at the Bardo Museum in Tunis received weapons training in Libya, Tunisia’s security chief said Wednesday.
  3. Fifa confirmed Thursday that the World 2022 to be held in Qatar for the first time in history in the fall from November 21 and final on December 18, a schedule that displeased clubs and European Championships. The Executive Committee of FIFA met on Thursday in Zurich “decided that the final would be held Sunday, December 18, the day of the national festival in Qatar, and the principle of a 28-day tournament,” said Walter de Gregorio, Director Communication Fifa.
  4. The world’s most expensive forward line-ups will take on each other on March 22nd, 2015, when Barcelona host Real Madrid at the Camp Nou. Barcelona’s triumvirate of Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and Neymar Jr. will be up against Real Madrid’s deadly trio of Gareth Bale, Karim Benzema and Cristiano Ronaldo.

 

 

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