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Ghana began its mass vaccination drive on Tuesday after becoming the first country to receive COVAX vaccines last month. 600,000 Oxford/Astrazeneca doses are being given to frontline health workers, security personnel, people aged over 60 and those with pre-existing conditions. “So, when we take it, we serve as Ambassadors and they will come and then convince them and show them… Read More

The new U.S. ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, announced Monday that many topical issues concerning Africa would be on the Council’s agenda by the end of the month. The mandate of UNMISS, the UN mission in South Sudan, is due to be renewed in the next two weeks. The situation in Sudan will also be reviewed, including the announced… Read More

Some 2,000 Algerians, mostly students, rallied against the government Tuesday in defiance of lockdown measures, as their two-year-old pro-democracy protest movement resurges. For the second consecutive week, young protesters accompanied by lecturers and other supporters poured through central Algiers, shouting slogans demanding “a free and democratic Algeria” and an end to the military’s domination of the North African country. They… Read More

A painting of Morocco by the British wartime prime minister Sir Winston Churchill, which was owned by Angelina Jolie, has sold at auction for 8.1 million euros ($9,7 million). Churchill painted the “Tower of the Koutoubia Mosque” while in Morocco during World War II in 1943 and later gave it to the former US president Franklin Roosevelt. The two leaders… Read More

The Democratice Republic of Congo elected a supporter of President Felix Tshisekedi as the next senate leader on Tuesday. Modeste Bahati election follows the formation of a new parliamentary majority to remove the camp of former head of state, Joseph Kabila from power. Senator Modeste Bahati Lukwebo garnered 89 votes, an absolute majority of votes, and becomes the President of… Read More

Well-Played, Noah! French-American international athlete Joakim Noah announced his retirement from basketball on Monday, ending a 13-season NBA career. The 36-year-old confirmed earlier reports he planned to retire in a statement on Instagram. “It was a hell of a ride,” Noah wrote. “Thank you to all those who showed me love throughout my journey.” The two-time NBA All-Star, who was… Read More

Aquatic Murals for a Cause Beautiful images of aquatic life can be seen painted on the facades of 13 houses in Porto Mosquito, a fishing village 20km from Praia the capital of Cape Verde. Inspired by the French naval officer, Jacques Cousteau, the murals are part of an environmental project by the 2013-founded Lantuna Association operating in the Baía do… Read More

With just over a week until the next president of the African Football Confederation (CAF) is elected, FIFA has asked three candidates to back South Africa’s Patrice Motsepe, a source close to one of the four candidates told AFP. World body FIFA is keen for a fresh start in Africa, the source said, adding, Augustin Senghor (Senegal) and Ahmed Yahya… Read More

The hundreds of teenage girls abducted last Friday from their boarding school in Jangebe in north-western Nigeria have been released and as of Tuesday morning are in the offices of the Zamfara government. The news is according to state governor Alhaji Bello Matawalle – who told the media that the total 279 kidnapped girls are all accounted for and in… Read More

Niger’s opposition figure Hama Amadou was imprisoned on Monday for his alleged role in the unrest that followed the result of the presidential election following three days in detention, the public prosecution service told AFP. Hundreds were arrested and two were killed after violence erupted following the electoral commission’s declaration that the former interior minister Mohamed Bazoum won the February… Read More