Ghana will receive a compensation should the COVID-19 vaccine acquired from the COVAX facility have any serious side effects on vaccinated persons. This was confirmed by the Programme Manager for the Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI), Dr. Kwame Amponsa-Achiano. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has an agreement with countries receiving the vaccine that backs a no-fault-lump sum…
SaharaReporters gathered that the bandits heavily armed with assorted sophisticated weapons came into the village on motorcycles, shooting sporadically. Armed bandits on Tuesday night launched another attack on Manta village in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger state. SaharaReporters gathered that the bandits heavily armed with assorted sophisticated weapons came into the village on motorcycles, shooting…
Protests erupted in Niger on Tuesday with tyres set alight and reported clashes with police after the country’s monumental election result named ruling party candidate Mohamed Bazoum the winner. Bazoum, a 61-year-old former interior minister, won just over 55% of the vote in Sunday’s election run-off, according to the electoral commission. He beat Mahamane Ousmane,…
Guinea relaunched its Ebola vaccine campaign in the town of Gouecke on Tuesday after a fresh outbreak of the deadly disease struck the country this month, killing five people. The new cases are the first in Guinea since the 2013-2016 epidemic that killed more than 11,300 people in West Africa. Some 11,000 vaccine doses are…
Tensions between Ethiopia and Sudan over the disputed al-Fashqa area is due to pressure on the leaders of the two countries from their citizens, warn analysts. On one hand, the leader of the Sudanese Sovereign Council, Abdel Fattah Abdelrahman Al-Burhan is under pressure to reclaim the Sudanese territory, which has been occupied by Ethiopian farmers…
Turboden, a Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Group company, has been selected to supply a high-temperature Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) system to GASCO’s Dahshour gas compressor station (GCS) in Egypt. The ORC system will be coupled with 20MW electric motor driven (EMD) compressors supplied by Siemens Energy, to boost the efficiency of the gas station. GASCO is the state-owned operator…
Thousands marched in Algeria’s capital and other cities Monday to mark the second anniversary of the “Hirak” protest movement that forced long-time president Abdelaziz Bouteflika from power. “We are not here to celebrate, but to demand your departure,” protesters shouted, referring to a government they see as little different from the one Bouteflika headed for…
Kidnappers have released 53 people including women and children they seized on a bus in Nigeria, local authorities said, while dozens of others taken from a school in a separate incident are still missing. Criminal gangs known locally as “bandits” in northwest and central Nigeria have scaled up attacks in recent years, kidnapping, raping and…
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Cape Town – A Rwandan opposition politician, Seif Bamporiki, living in exile in South Africa, was shot dead while delivering a bed to a client in Nyanga on Sunday afternoon. It is not clear whether the murder was politically motivated, but a Twitter user alleged Bamporiki, co-ordinator of the Rwanda National Congress of General Kayumba…