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Egypt said Wednesday it plans to manufacture one billion doses a year of China’s Sinovac vaccine, claiming it would become the Middle East and Africa’s “biggest vaccine producer”. Under the deal with the Chinese pharmaceutical company, a factory in Cairo will produce more than 200 million doses per year to cover “national needs”, Health Minister Hala Zayed told a press… Read More

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Wednesday that the number of people displaced by disaster is “almost getting larger” than the number of people displaced by conflict, as thirty one million people were displaced by disasters last year. Assistant Secretary-General and Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction, Mami Mizutori added that we are living in a… Read More

Two southern Nigerian states want to make vaccination mandatory for access to public places and gatherings to speed up the Covid-19 vaccination campaign. To curb the resurgence of the pandemic, several European countries have already introduced health passes or vaccine passports that have sparked protests in France and Italy in recent weeks. Introducing similar measures in Nigeria analysts fear may… Read More

Mali’s colonels have consistently said they will hand over power to civilians in early 2022, but doubts are growing about whether that timetable will be met six months before the promised elections and after a year of transition that has been deemed unproductive. The military in power since the August 2020 coup and the second transitional government they installed in… Read More

There is “no evidence” of the presence of the Ebola virus in Côte d’Ivoire, after new analyses by the Pasteur Institute in Lyon (France) on samples taken from a young Guinean woman presented by the Ivorian authorities as infected in mid-August, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced Tuesday. “With the new results obtained by the laboratory in Lyon, WHO believes… Read More

Countries neighboring Libya wrapped up their meeting Tuesday in Algeria, with calls for foreign fighters and mercenaries to be pulled out from the conflict-stricken North African nation. The two-day meeting also urged Libyan parties to stick to a political road map that ended hostilities last year and set parliamentary and presidential elections in December. The meeting, hosted by Algeria, was… Read More

Morocco expanded its COVID-19 vaccination campaign to children from Tuesday with 12 to 17-year-olds now eligible to receive their shots. The North African country has administrated about 33 million doses to adults according to the World Health Organization, and is now focusing its efforts on inoculating teenagers to ensure a safe return to schools. “I chose to vaccinate my daughter,… Read More

Egypt head coach Hossam El Badry has revealed that discussions are ongoing in an attempt to call-up Mohamed Salah for the World Cup qualifier away to Gabon despite the current quarantine rules in place in the UK. Salah will miss Egypt’s first qualifier against Angola in Cairo with the country on the UK’s red list meaning the forward would have… Read More

The leader of Tanzania’s main opposition party appeared in the High Court on Tuesday to face terrorism charges in a case described by his party as a politically-motivated move to crush dissent. Chadema party chairman Freeman Mbowe and his supporters accuse police of torturing him in custody to force him to make a statement in the trial, which opened under… Read More

Kenyan authorities have welcomed the progress made in the fight against poaching, after the publication Monday night of the first animal census conducted in the country, which should serve as a basis for improving environmental conservation. According to the data, Kenya has 36,280 elephants, among other things, a population that is up 21 percent from 2014, when poaching peaked. “Efforts… Read More