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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
(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…
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…
Vote counting has now began in Zambia following the successful staging of the southern African nation’s general elections. After 12 hours of voting, polling stations started closing at 6 pm (1600 GMT), though several hundreds still in queues were being allowed to cast their ballots. Some voters complained about the slow pace of the voting…