AstraZeneca’s vaccine did not provide significant protection against mild to moderate Covid-19 caused by the variant of the virus dominant in South Africa, researchers announced late on Sunday. The country has now paused its rollout of the vaccine as experts meet this week to discuss the data and how it will shape the country’s use of the jab. The AstraZeneca…
Our Reporter No fewer than 52 bandits have been killed in in separate operations including an ambush conducted by troops of Operation Hadarin Daji in Shinkafi area of Zamfara State. Sources close to ongoing military operations in the state, said the troops encountered the bandits and overwhelmed them with superior firepower. “Troops of operation Hadarin…
The Democratic Republic of Congo is working to contain a possible resurgence of Ebola in its east after a case of the deadly hemorrhagic fever was confirmed on Sunday. Kinshasa’s health ministry stopped short of declaring an outbreak but said tests done on a woman who presented with symptoms of the virus before passing away…
A Benin presidential candidate was wounded after shots were fired at his car soon after he filed his papers for the April presidential election, family members and the government said on Saturday. Ganiou Soglo, a former minister and son of ex-president Nicephore Soglo, was wounded on Friday on the way to his farm in Zinvie,…
New York – In response to the South African Constitutional Court’s decision today to uphold a 2019 High Court ruling that invalidated legislation allowing for the surveillance of members of the press, the Committee to protect Journalists issued the following statement : “Journalist Sam Sole’s communications should never have been intercepted, but the South African…
The nation has declared a ‘state of disaster’ as hospitals run out of ventilators and beds fill up. It’s another sad day for health workers at Kamuzu Central Hospital in Lilongwe, Malawi’s capital. Despite their best efforts, scores of Covid-19 patients are dying. As health workers are busy monitoring patients on the hospital’s few ventilators, more and…
By Associated Press THE HAGUE: The International Criminal Court on Thursday convicted a one-time child soldier who morphed into a brutal commander in the notorious Ugandan rebel group the Lord’s Resistance Army of dozens of war crimes and crimes against humanity, ranging from multiple murders to forced marriages. Dominic Ongwen, who was abducted by the…
Angola marked the 60th anniversary of the beginning of the armed struggle with official acts and demonstrations. In the Museum of Military History, in the center of Luanda, the national flag was raised and the anthem sang. This was followed by the deposition of flowers on the monument of the Unknown Soldier, in homage to…
All pre-schools, secondary schools and universities closed except classes scheduled for exams. JUBA, South Sudan South Sudan announced a month-long lockdown Wednesday banning social gatherings, classes, religious services and political rallies following a sharp rise in coronavirus cases. “Due to the recent surge in the COVID-19 pandemic in the country and around the globe and…
António Guterres urges all parties to immediately cease hostilities. YAOUNDE, Cameroon The UN secretary-general late Wednesday condemned recent violence in the Central African Republic (CAR), reiterating his call for a global cease-fire in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, his spokesman said. Stéphane Dujarric said Antonio Guterres remains concerned about recent armed clashes and threats…