Yearly Archives: 2021

Zambians, like South Africans are gatvol with maladministration – Herman Mashaba

Pretoria – ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba has congratulated Zambia’s president-elect Hakainde Hichilema who was on Monday declared winner of the hotly contested presidential election. “Zambians, like South Africans, were gatvol with [outgoing Zambian president] Edgar Lungu’s previous administration buckling under high unemployment as a result of poor economic management, high unemployment and socio-political unrest,” said…

Zambia’s new president promises ‘better democracy’ in his first speech

Zambian president-elect Hakainde Hichilema on Monday slammed the southern African country’s outgoing “brutal regime” while promising a “better democracy” in his debut address to the nation, hours after winning the top job in a landslide. Speaking shortly after his predecessor Edgar Lungu conceded defeat, the business tycoon and veteran opposition leader said his camp had…

Nigerians get Moderna COVID vaccines, which were donated by the US

Health workers in Nigeria on Monday started to vaccinate people with the Moderna COVID-19 as the country aims to protect its population amid a surge of infections. Africa’s most populous nation has been able to vaccinate only about 1.23% of its population, according to Africa CDC, as it continues to see a spike in infection…

After the first case in decades, Ivory Coast starts Ebola jabs

Ivorian medical staff receive the first doses of the Ebola virus vaccine on Monday after the discovery of the first case in Abidjan in nearly 30 years. From stretcher-bearers to medical professors, dozens of health personnel received doses of the vaccine during the event, which took place at the University Hospital Center (CHU) of Cocody,…

Zambia’s opposition leader Hichilema wins election after capturing more than 2.8 million votes

With 155 of 156 constituencies reporting, official results showed Hichilema had garnered 2,810,757 votes against President Edgar Lungu’s tally of 1,814,201. “I therefore declare the said Hakainde Hichilema to be president-elect of the Republic of Zambia,” electoral commission chairman Justice Esau Chulu said in a televised address. The 59-year-old veteran opposition politician beat his long-time…

Celebrations in Lusaka after Hakainde Hichilema becomes Zambia’s new president

Thousands of Hichilema supporters flocked onto the streets of Lusaka, erupting into song and dance in support of newly appointed president Hakainde Hichilema. A large crowd gathered outside the results centre in Lusaka to celebrate the election results. Gary Nkombo, the UPND’s elections chairman said As far as Hichilema is concerned, “there is absolutely nothing…

At least 22 killed in central Nigeria attack

After an attack on a convoy of 90 Muslims in the outskirts of the capital of Nigeria’s central Plateau state Jos that killed at least 22, victims are buried and motorists are still stuck on Rukuba road where the attack took place. Northwest and central Nigeria have for years struggled with violence between mainly Muslim…

Delta variant has spiked Covid-19 deaths in Africa by 80% in one month, WHO says

WHO Africa director: Vaccine hostility is ‘infuriating’ 17:01 Abuja, Nigeria (CNN)Coronavirus deaths in Africa rose rapidly over the past month, as fatalities surged by 80 percent within the last four weeks, the World Health Organization has said. WHO’s Vaccine Introduction Officer for the African Region, Phionah Atuhebwe, told CNN on Monday that the continent was witnessing…

Social media and messaging apps appear to be shutdown in Zambia on election day, Facebook says

(CNN)Social media and messaging apps, including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Twitter, appeared to be shutdown in Zambia on Thursday as the country voted in presidential and parliamentary elections, according to a Facebook spokesperson. “We’ve looked into this and can confirm that there seems to be a social media shutdown affecting our apps and others, like Twitter,” a…

Algeria arrests 22 suspected arsonists over deadly blazes

President Tebboune says some fires were caused by high temperatures but ‘criminal hands were behind most of them’. Algeria has arrested 22 people suspected of being behind the most devastating wildfires in the country’s history that killed 69 people. Dozens of forest fires have hit mountainous areas in northern Algeria since Monday, mainly in Tizi Ouzou of…