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South African President Cyril Ramaphosa urged support for his government’s efforts to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic as it struggles to implement a vaccination program and an economic recovery plan. South Africa this week halted the use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine to start inoculating front-line healthcare workers after it was found to be minimally effective in preventing mild to moderate… Read More

Signatories to a shaky peace deal deemed vital for ending the conflict in Mali met on Thursday in the northern city of Kidal, a former rebel bastion, an AFP journalist said. The city fell to Tuareg separatists in 2012, who captured much of the north of the Sahel state before jihadist groups commandeered their rebellion. Islamist fighters have since expanded… Read More

A Freedom-Fighter Forever Celebrated 31 years ago today, February 11, the South African icon Nelson Mandela walked through Victor Verster Prison gate to freedom after having been incarcerated for 27 years. A prison sentence that the lawyer and social activist had received — along with several others including Andrew Mlangeni and Govan Mbeki, for leading the movement to end the… Read More

The return to on-site classes in Angola is not yet for everyone. But this week primary schools opened after eleven months of shutdown due to Covid-19. Extra care is been taken and that includes social distancing, the use of masks and hand washing. This, school authorities say is important moreso as to regain the trust of parents. “Since Monday, we’ve… Read More

Time to Pay for Damage Done Over 2,500 villagers in Zambia are to be financially compensated by a British mining company for significant water pollution to the region’s waterways. In a joint statement issued late last month, the villagers, represented by Leigh Day solicitors, and Vedanta Resources Ltd said: “Without admission of liability, Vedanta Resources Limited and Konkola Copper Mines… Read More

On Africa Podcast Day on February 12, Africanews will launch Cry Like a Boy, the channel’s first original podcast produced in collaboration with Euronews. With this project we will explore the pressures linked to ‘being a man’ in Africa and take a look at how men are changing themselves and their communities for the better. Africa Podcast Day by Africa… Read More

The army said the operation also aims to let people displaced by the conflict resettle, and to put an end to rampant timber and cannabis trafficking in the region. The military took control of several hectares of cannabis. “These are industrial farms of Indian hemp that fed the criminal economy of the armed gangs,” Kande said. Recent years had seen… Read More

The Africa Health Research Institute says a move by South Africa to switch to use the Johnson & Johnson vaccine is right. South African health minister, Zweli Mkhize announced Wednesday, that it was suspending vaccinating its frontline health workers against the coronavirus with the Oxford-Astrazeneca vaccine because of its ‘’limited’’ efficacy. “I think it’s the right decision to move to… Read More

Health workers in Tunisia are under immense pressure to treat and save COVID-19 patients, as cases soar during the country’s severe second wave. In Sousse, a city 150 km (93 miles) south of the capital Tunis, doctors and nurses at the Farhat Hached University Hospital said lessons had been learned from the initial phase on how to treat coronavirus patients.… Read More

In major art museum collections in America, 85% of artists are white and only 1.2% are Black. A new documentary, “Black Art: In the Absence of Light,” aims to show that just because Black art may not hang in many galleries, it doesn’t mean there haven’t been Black artists creating prolific work. “It’s an opportunity to see the lineage of… Read More