SA has secured 30 million Johnson & Johnson one-shot Covid-19 vaccines for use in the country. This is according to President Cyril Ramaphosa, who made the announcement on Monday during an oversight visit to the Aspen Pharmacare sterile manufacturing facility in Gqeberha, Eastern Cape. Ramaphosa said the vaccines will be manufactured by Aspen Pharmacare, with…
UhWe can build robust international health architecture that’ll protect future generations. In Summary President Kenyatta has joined more than 20 world leaders in calling for a new global settlement to help the world prepare for future pandemics Leaders including French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel write in newspapers round the world that…
Islamic State said on Monday its fighters had carried out an attack on the northern Mozambique town of Palma, where dozens were killed, thousands displaced and some remain missing. Islamist insurgents hit the town adjacent to gas projects worth $60 billion, with a three-pronged attack on Wednesday. Fighting continued on Monday, according to a security…
A cash van was blown up and robbed in Boksburg on the East Rand on Monday by a gang driving luxury vehicles. National police spokesperson Brenda Muridili said the incident happened at 9.30 on Atlas Road. Muridili said the cash van was rammed off the road by a green Mercedes-Benz. “An unknown number of suspects…
An eyewitness to an attack on the strategic town of Palma in Mozambique by a rebel group on Monday spoke about his escape from the event which killed some of his friends, partners and colleagues. Rebels fought the Mozambican army on Sunday for the fifth straight day for control of the strategic northern town of…
Monitoring Defense and security from March 22nd to 29th, 2021-CC
Cairo – The stranded container ship blocking the Suez Canal for almost a week was re-floated on Monday and is currently being secured, Inchcape Shipping Services said, raising hopes the busy waterway will soon be reopened. The 400-metre (430-yard) long Ever Given was successfully re-floated at 4.30 am local time (0230 GMT) and was being…
Dozens killed in Mozambique Islamist attack : government Joaquim Nhamirre Maputo, Mozambique – Dozens of people were killed in coordinated jihadist attacks in northern Mozambique’s Palma town, the government said on Sunday, four days after the raid was launched and forced the evacuation of thousands of survivors to safety in the provincial capital Pemba. Seven…
South Africa is targeting vaccinating about 200,000 people a day from mid-May as the government seeks to scale-up inoculations to tackle the pandemic, according to Health Minister Zweli Mkhize. The government has set up 2,000 centers where the doses would be administered, Mkhize told the Sunday Times newspaper. Shortages of doses threaten to upend South…
Families waited at a Mozambican port on Sunday as boats arrived carrying people who had fled the ongoing violence from a strategic town in the country’s north. Rebels fought Sunday for the fifth straight day to control the town of Palma, as reports came in that dozens of civilians had been killed and bodies were…