Emirates Airline said Monday it would make daily deliveries of coronavirus vaccines to countries with low storage capacities as part of an initiative to accelerate global jab distribution. The Dubai-based company, the Middle East’s largest carrier, will use both its cargo and passenger fleets to deliver vaccines to countries without the means to stockpile vaccines,…
Libyan Political Dialogue Forum’s convention kicked off Monday in Geneva in the presence of the UN Acting Special Representative of the Secretary-General Stephanie Williams. The meeting, expected to last until Feb. 5, is supposed to vote on the positions of a three-member Presidency Council and the Prime Minister of Libya, in accordance with the roadmap…
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Kulen Allah Cattle Rearers Association of Nigeria, (KACRAN), has dished out some advice on how the new service chiefs can win the ongoing war against Boko Haram terrorists. Hon. Khalil Mohammed Bello, National President of the Association in a statement made available to DAILY POST in Damaturu on Monday, spoke in reaction to the recent…
South Africa’s fintech startup Ukheshe has entered into a new Bank Identification Number (BIN) deal with Kenya-based lender KCB Bank Kenya. This new deal will see KCB sponsor Ukheshe’s Bank Identification Number (BIN) number, which will allow the startup to immediately issue both physical and virtual cards across East Africa where KCB has an extensive footprint. According…
Nigeria’s three refineries under the management of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) have not made any profit or produce a drop of fuel since October 2019. Instead, the Nigerian government has spent taxpayers’ money to keep the refineries idle for the combined cost of N123.45 billion from October 2019 to October 2020. The refineries…
South Africa’s first consignment of Covid-19 vaccines will arrive in the country on Monday, from the Serum Institute of India, the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer. One-million doses of the long-awaited Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine will be rolled out to frontline health workers, as part of government’s phased approach to distributing vaccines. The consignment will arrive at OR…
Al Shabaab militants kill 5, including retired army general in hotel blast. As the smoke rises from the site of the blast, Mogadishu was once more rocked by fighters of the Al Qaeda linked Islamist group al Shabaab. On Sunday afternoon, as armed militants neared a checkpoint on the road leading to the international airport,…
At least 30 people were kidnapped and a dozen others killed in a series of attacks in northwest Nigeria, witnesses said Thursday, hours after the president had replaced his military commanders. President Muhammadu Buhari has been under increasing pressure as his military struggles to resolve Nigeria’s security problems. The country is battling a decade-long- insurgency…
After a slow start, Africa has shifted up a gear in Covid-19 vaccine procurement, securing hundreds of millions of jabs from pooling initiatives amid efforts to gain ground in the global inoculation race. So far only a small handful of African countries have started immunising their populations against Covid-19, starting with the Seychelles and more…