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The UN’s regional health chief for Africa said that if current trends continue, she sees “light at the end of the tunnel” for the Continent. Speaking at a virtual news conference from Brazzaville, the WHO regional head added that the challenge remains getting people vaccinated. “As we stand here today, we’re finally able to state that if the current trends… Read More

A community hospital in the Central African Republic’s capital, Bangui, is offering hope to HIV patients at an advanced stage of the disease. Supported by the charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF), Bangui’s community hospital has 68 beds and a further 15 for intensive care. Around 110,000 people are affected by HIV but lack of free testing means that many are… Read More

On Friday, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi emphasized his country’s efforts to preserve marine resources as a three-day summit over protecting the planet’s oceans got underway. On the last day of the One Ocean Summit held in France, president Macron brought together heads of states and government. The summit aims at raising the international community’s ambition on the preservation of ocean… Read More

The trial of Angolan businessman Carlos Manuel de S**ã**o Vicente, who has ties to the nation’s former political elite and was close to former Angolan president dos Santos opened in a Luanda court over a $900-million embezzlement scandal. A long-awaited corruption trial opened in Luanda on Friday. In the dock, tycoon Carlos Manuel de Sao Vicente who is accused of… Read More

Imprisoned senior leaders of a major opposition party in Ethiopia are refusing meals as a way of protesting what they describe as “poor conditions” inside jail. Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) executive committee members Mikael Boran and Kenasa Ayana, and its spokesperson Bate Urgessa, are among those who have been on hunger strike for several days, the party says in a… Read More

A European Union representative for the Horn of Africa said Friday she was “cautiously optimistic” that Ethiopia’s state of emergency will be lifted by parliament in the near future. The state of emergency was imposed in early November as Tigrayan forces fighting Ethiopian and allied forces moved closer to the capital, Addis Ababa. At the end of December and into… Read More

UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya was raring to go against Robert Whittaker in a rematch slated for Saturday at the UFC 271 in Houston, Texas. Speaking at a press conference on Thursday, Adesanya acknowledged Whittaker’s improvement since he beat him in UFC 243 back in 2019. “He’s young, he’s actually younger than me. I know I look fresh, but he’s… Read More

South Africa’s economic recovery remains fragile and growth is expected to hold below 2% in the medium term due to policy uncertainty, high public debt and constraints to investment, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Friday. In a statement issued at the end of discussions with South Africa, the IMF said the country’s recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic had… Read More

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa delivered a state of the nation address on Thursday promising “decisive” action to stem corruption, as he faces demands for a plan to reverse widening disillusionment with his government. State corruption, a flagging economy, staggering unemployment, rampant crime and last year’s riots topped a long list of woes facing the former union activist-turned-tycoon. “The fight… Read More

Guinea-Bissau President Umaro Cissoco Embalo accused on Thursday a former head of the national navy and two other men arrested in the past by the U.S. anti-drug agency of being behind what he described as the abortive February 1 coup attempt. Embalo told reporters the names of former Rear Admiral Jose Americo Bubo Na Tchuto, head of the navy during… Read More