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The Egyptian Drug Authority announced on Wednesday that it has approved Russian Sputnik V, a month after the start of the vaccination campaign. According to a statement posted on its Facebook page, the Drug Authority said it had “given urgent approval for the use of both vaccines: Sputnik V and AstraZeneca imported from South Korea”. In the post, it said… Read More

Angola is seeking to increase the share of its population with access to electricity. France and the the World Bnak have underwritten 344 million euros to help connect the provinces of Benguela, Huambo, Huila and Luanda to the national grid. The southern African country is looking to create a 60% electricity access rate by 2025. The beneficiaries of the project… Read More

Protests erupted in Niger on Wednesday with tyres set alight and opposition supporters facing off with police as opposition candidate Mahamane Ousmane claimed victory in Sunday’s presidential election. It comes despite the National Electoral Commission (CENI) announcing he lost with more than 11 percentage points to his rival and ruling party candidate Mohamed Bazoum a day earlier. “The compilation of… Read More

Protests erupted in Niger on Tuesday with tyres set alight and reported clashes with police after the country’s monumental election result named ruling party candidate Mohamed Bazoum the winner. Bazoum, a 61-year-old former interior minister, won just over 55% of the vote in Sunday’s election run-off, according to the electoral commission. He beat Mahamane Ousmane, 71, a former president who… Read More

Guinea relaunched its Ebola vaccine campaign in the town of Gouecke on Tuesday after a fresh outbreak of the deadly disease struck the country this month, killing five people. The new cases are the first in Guinea since the 2013-2016 epidemic that killed more than 11,300 people in West Africa. Some 11,000 vaccine doses are already in Guinea and the… Read More

Afro Women Overcoming Enslavement ‘Reclaiming History: Our Native Daughters,’ is a documentary that explores the stories of enslaved Afro women by way of the 2019 folk album ‘Songs of Our Native Daughters’ by four black female North-American singer-songwriters — Rhiannon Giddens, Leyla McCalla, Allison Russell and Amythyst Kiah. Russell shares how the journey of bringing the project to life affected… Read More

Algerian international striker Baghdad Bounedjah took his goal tally to 19 after scoring in stoppage time to help league leaders Al Sadd overcome Al Arabi 3-2 on Monday night. The 2019 Africa Cup of Nations winner is the Qatari Super League’s top scorer. As Sadd were trailing Al Arabi when Bounedjah managed equalized with a superb cross header. His goal… Read More

Vaccination against the Ebola hemorrhagic fever was launched in Guinea Tuesday, more than a week after the resurgence of the virus in a country. The campaign began after more than 11,000 doses of vaccines from the World Health Organization (WHO) arrived in Conakry on Monday evening. The WHO plans to send an additional 8,500 doses from the United States soon.… Read More

Golfer Tiger Woods was rushed to a Los Angeles hospital on Tuesday after suffering multiple injuries when his car went off a road and rolled over, requiring the jaws of life to extricate him. Woods, 45, was the sole occupant in the sport utility vehicle when it crashed at about 7:12 a.m. near the suburban communities of Rolling Hills Estates… Read More

The crisis in the Ethiopian region of Tigray seems “out of control,” Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto warned Tuesday following his return from a mission for the European Union. The embattled region of Ethiopia’s north, is the scene of a conflict between its dissident authorities and the federal government. “The situation is uncontrollable militarily, humanely and on a humanitarian level,”… Read More