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Coronavirus Vaccinations in Algeria Have Officially Begun A symbolic launch for Algeria on Saturday of the COVID-19 vaccination campaign with the first dose of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine going to a 65-year-old retiree at a health unit in the town Bilda situated at about 40 kilometres southwest of the capital, Algiers. Limam Zineb, a resident of Blida. shares why she… Read More

Another Human Disease to Bite the Dust! Just over two dozen people in the world are infected with Guinea worm, as per a new report that says community programs are close to eradicating the disease in which a meter-long worm slowly emerges from a blister in a person’s skin. Adam Weiss, the director of the United States-based Carter Center, which… Read More

Fespaco Will Have to Wait The Council of Ministers of Burkina Faso has decided to postpone the Fespaco — the main biennial Panafrican film and television festival in Africa, to a later unspecified date. The news was announced on Friday by government spokesperson Ousseni Tamboura at a press briefing in Ouagadougou. The cinematic festival which has brought together thousands of… Read More

A Discussion to End the Violence in the Central African Republic The end of the arms embargo on the government of the Central African Republic may be one of the keys to resolving the conflict in the country – a conclusion drawn at the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region, which met this Friday in Luanda. Angolan president, João… Read More

Back at the Head of African Football Banned by FIFA in November for financial wrongdoing and abusing his position as the president of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), Madagascar’s Ahmad Ahmad was reinstated as the head of African soccer on Friday during a presidential election campaign pending his urgent appeal at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). The… Read More

Zimbabwe on Friday extended the duration of nationwide lockdown measures until Feb. 15 to curtail the further spread of the novel coronavirus. Vice President Constantino Chiwenga delivered a live address on the public Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) on the latest extension of the level-four lockdown. Chiwenga, who is also the country’s health minister, made the address at the country’s Health… Read More

Zimbabwe on Friday extended the duration of nationwide lockdown measures until Feb. 15 to curtail the further spread of the novel coronavirus. Vice President Constantino Chiwenga delivered a live address on the public Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) on the latest extension of the level-four lockdown. Chiwenga, who is also the country’s health minister, made the address at the country’s Health… Read More

Zimbabwe on Friday extended the duration of nationwide lockdown measures until Feb. 15 to curtail the further spread of the novel coronavirus. Vice President Constantino Chiwenga delivered a live address on the public Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) on the latest extension of the level-four lockdown. Chiwenga, who is also the country’s health minister, made the address at the country’s Health… Read More

This week has seen fast-moving political developments in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Prime minister Sylvestre Ilunga lost a no confidence vote in parliament, and subsequently resigned on Friday. Analysts have said that the dismissal of Ilunga means that President Felix Tshisekedi has effectively cut any political links he had left with former leader Joseph Kabila’s Common… Read More

This week has seen fast-moving political developments in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Prime minister Sylvestre Ilunga lost a no confidence vote in parliament, and subsequently resigned on Friday. Analysts have said that the dismissal of Ilunga means that President Felix Tshisekedi has effectively cut any political links he had left with former leader Joseph Kabila’s Common… Read More