Month: February 2021
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South Africa
South African Health Minister Reports Over 1650 New Coronavirus Cases On Friday
South African Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said the country recorded 1,654 new coronavirus cases on Friday, bringing the total number…
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Algeria
Algerians Resume Anti-Govt Protests After Yearlong Hiatus Due To Coronavirus Pandemic
Thousands of Algerians came out on the streets for anti-government protests in cities across Algeria on Friday, marking the revival…
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Ivory Coast
Ivory Coast Receives First Batch Of COVID-19 Vaccine Doses Via COVAX Initiative
Ivory Coast received its first batch of Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine on Friday. Some 500,000 doses of the vaccine made by…
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Nigeria
Nigerian President Buhari Condemns Kidnapping Of Over 300 Schoolgirls By Bandits
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday strongly condemned the abduction of more than 300 teenage girls from the Government Girls…
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Somalia
Somalia: Opposition Leaders Agree To Postpone Friday’s Anti-Government Protest
Somalia’s opposition leaders have decided to postpone an anti-government protest planned for Friday after a meeting with Prime Minister Mohamed…
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Niger
Niger: At Least 2 People Killed, Over 450 Arrested In Post-Election Violence Across Country
Niger’s Minister of Interior and Security Alkache Alhada on Thursday said at least two people were killed and over 450…
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Kenya
Kenyan Presidency Says First Batch Of COVID-19 Vaccines To Arrive Next Week
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta’s office on Thursday said the country will receive its first batch of COVId-19 vaccines in the…
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Egypt
Egypt’s Foreign Ministry Supports Sudan’s Quartet Mediation Proposal On GERD
Egypt’s Foreign Ministry on Wednesday supported quartet mediation for the talks on the controversial Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) that…
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Niger
Niger: Opposition Leader Ousmane Denounces Election Fraud, Declares Victory
Niger opposition leader Mahamane Ousmane on Wednesday rejected the runoff presidential election results and claimed that he narrowly won the…
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Ethiopia
Ethiopian Foreign Minister Says Tigray’s Humanitarian Situation Improving
The Ethiopian Foreign Minister Demeke Mekonnen Hassen on Wednesday told a United Nations human rights meeting that Tigray’s humanitarian situation…
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Nigeria
Nigeria: Health Authorities Conduct Over 14 Million Coronavirus Tests So Far
Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Wednesday announced the country’s health authorities have conducted over 1,489,103 COVID-19 tests since…
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Guinea
Guinea: Health Ministry Launches Vaccination Campaign Against Ebola Resurgence
Guinea’s health ministry on Tuesday launched a vaccination campaign against the Ebola hemorrhagic fever, more than a week after the…
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Niger
Niger: Electoral Commission Announces Mohamed Bazoum As New President
Niger’s electoral commission on Tuesday declared the governing party candidate, Mohamed Bazoum, as the winner of the presidential election runoff…
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Health
WHO Chief Slams Wealthy Nations For Hogging COVID-19 Vaccines
The World Health Organization (WHO) head on Monday slammed rich countries for hogging COVID-19 vaccines and hindering the pathway for…
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Somalia
Somalia: UN Envoy Urges Political Leaders To Quickly Agree On Election Date
The United Nations envoy for Somalia on Monday urged the Somalia government to conduct elections in the country as soon…
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Algeria
Algerians Mark Hirak Protest Movement Anniversary With Fresh Rallies
Thousands of Algerians took to the streets in Algiers on Monday to mark the second anniversary of the Hirak mass…
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South Africa
South Africa: Over 15000 Healthcare Workers Vaccinated In Less Than A Week
South Africa’s Health Ministry on Sunday announced at least 15,388 health care workers have been vaccinated in less than a…
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Niger
Niger: Seven Election Commission Workers Killed In Landmine Blast On Voting Day
Seven election workers were killed in Niger when their vehicle hit a mine and exploded in the rural commune of…
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Tanzania
Tanzanian President John Magufuli Urges Citizens To Wear Locally Made Face Masks
Tanzanian President John Magufuli has finally acknowledged the presence of COVID-19 in the country after claiming for months that the…
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Somalia
AU Chief Deeply Concerned Over Somalia’s Political Impasse, Calls For Consensus
The African Union (AU) chief Moussa Faki Mahamat said he is deeply concerned at the deteriorating security and political situation…
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Health
WHO Head Urges Vaccine Manufacturing Nations To Donate COVID-19 Vaccines To COVAX
The World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General, Tedros Adhanom, said governments need to donate doses for the world to fully realize…
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Tanzania
Tanzanian President Urges People To Pray To God To Defeat ‘Respiratory Diseases’
Tanzanian President John Magufuli has urged the people to pray to god for the next three days in order to…
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Health
Africa’s COVID-19 Deaths Cross 100,000 Mark Amid Second Wave Of Virus Infection
Africa’s COVID-19 related deaths crossed 100,000 on Friday as the second wave of infections spreads to several African countries, reported…
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Guinea
WHO To Send 11,000 Ebola Vaccines To Guinea As Country Declares New Outbreak
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday said it will send more than 11,000 Ebola vaccines to the West African…
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Algeria
Algerian President Dissolves Lower House Of Parliament, Calls For Early Elections
Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune on Thursday announced the dissolution of the lower house of parliament and called for early legislative…
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