31 MARCH 2019 LOCAL ELECTION RESULTS OF TURKEY

The results of 31 March 2019 Municipal & M.Assembly Elections of Turkey   AK PARTİ (Rulling Party) 44,33% + MHP (unofficial partner) 7,31%= 51,64% AK PARTİ: Winner of 74 municipalities + 51 Municipal Assemblies: 125 cities MHP: Winner of 37 municipalit...

GABON MILITARY TAKES OVER RADIO STATION

Military officers in Gabon have seized the national radio station calling for the need for national restoration, the Reuters news agency reported on Monday.  The soldiers also condemned the New Year speech delivered by President Ali Bongo Ondimba stating that they were disappointed with it.  A New Year’s address b...

VAKIFBANK WOMEN VOLLEYBALL TEAM IS WORLD CHAMPION

Turkey's Vakıfbank Istanbul beat Brazil's Minas in final of 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship SALLOON: Shaoxing Olympic Sports REFEREES: Jiang Liu, Patricia Rolf MİNAS: Carneiro, Gattaz, Marques, Guimaraes, Pereira, De Souza (Nicolosi, Cattani, Costa, De Oliveira, Leao) VAKIFBAN...

TIWA SAVAGE WINS MTV EMAS MUSIC PRIZE

Nigerian singer Tiwa Savage wins 2018 MTV Europe Music Awards (MTV EMAs) in the Best African Act category. The African act category was infused into the MTV EMA to enhance musical alliances across borders, and promote cultural integrations. Held at the expansive Bilbao Exhibition Center, Bilbao, Spain, amidst glitz and glamour, T...

RUSSIAN INDUSTRIAL ZONE (RIZ) PROJECT IN EGYPT OFFICIALY STARTED

Egypt - Russia started working on establishing the Russian Industrial Zone (RIZ) in in the East Port Said region, Egypt. A 50-year agreement worth $7bn will give Russian companies rights to develop a 5.25m sqm stretches of land in the Suez Canal Economic Zone. The RIZ is planned to increase bilateral trade exchange, increase FDIs in the local ma...

PAUL BIYA WON CAMEROON PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

The Constitutional Council in Cameroon has declared Paul Biya, the winner of the October 7 presidential election. THE SHARING OF THE VOTES1- Biya : 71,282- Kamto : 14,23%3- Libii l: 6,28%4- Osih : 3,35%5- NdamNjoya : 1,73%6- Garga : 1,55%7- Ndifor : 0,67%8- Matomba : 0,56%9- Muna : 0,...

DENIS MEKWEGE REWARDED BY NOBEL PEACE PRIZE

Nobel peace prize 2018 won by Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad - as it happened Mukwege and Murad recognised for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon in war The Congolese gynaecologist, Denis Mukwege...

2017-2018 DISPLACEMENT DATAS OF AFRICAN COUNTRIES

International Displacement Monitoring Center issued it’s 2017-2018 report in 26th of september. This global displacement report  is about the people who leave their home/towns because of conflicts or natural disasters ...

KOFFI ANNAN DIED

The first African secretary general ( 1997-2006) in United Nations history and Nobel prize owner Koffi Annan died at 80 years old ( 8 April 1938-Ghana) in hospital of Bern-Switzerland ...

FIFA 2018 MEN S FOOTBALL RANKING

Below list is a success ranking of African and Turkic men's football which was derivated from FIFA 2018 list   24)Tunisia & Senegal 37) Democratic Congo 38) Turkey 45) Ghana 47) Cameoun 49) Nigeria   63) Mali 64) Cape Verde 65) Egypt...

TURKISH LIRA CRASHED AGAINST US DOLLAR..IS IT A FINANCIAL BANKTRUPCY?

Turkish Government lived Black Friday syndrome in 10/08/2018 when 1$ rised to 6,40 TL and Turkish credit default swap (CDS) rised up to 400. AfroTurk specialists name this situation as financial banktrupcy. But how Turkish financial system came to this point?   19 January – Credit ratings agency Fitch Ratings ...

KEITA IS ELECTED AS MALI REPUBLIC PRESIDENT FOR 2ND TERM

Presidential elections were held in Mali on 29 July 2018. As no candidate received more than 50% of the vote in the first round, a runoff was held on 12 August 2018 between the top two candidates, incumbent President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta of the Rally for Mali an...

CDE EMMERSON MNANGAGWA ELECTED AS ZIMBABWE PRESIDENT

Zimbabwe's incumbent president Emmerson Mnangagwa has been declared the winner of the country's first election since the departure of long-time leader Robert Mugabe. 72 years old (1946)  politican was sworn in as President on November 24, 2017 after Robert Mugabe was forced to resign post a coup d’état. He remained a cl...

PRESIDENT ERDOGAN'S VISIT TO SOUTH AFRICA AND ZAMBIA

FOLLOWING IS THE PRESS STATEMENT ON PRESIDENT ERDOĞAN’S VISITS TO THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA AND THE REPUBLIC OF ZAMBIA:  President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will attend the 10th BRICS Leaders’ Summit which will be held on July 25-27, 2018 in the South African city of Johannesburg, and will pay an official visit to the Repu...

NEW GOVERNMENT SYSTEM BEGINS IN TURKEY AFTER PRESIDENT ERDOGAN TAKES OATH

Erdoğan took his oath in parliament after being elected as the country’s president in the June 24 elections, in which he garnered 52 percent of the votes. After his swearing-in on July 9, the system change — stipulated by the 18-article constitutional amendment which was approved by the April 16, 2017 referendum — has g...