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Last updated: 1 hour ago Authorities in Nigeria destroyed more than one million expired doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, Wednesday, even as the West African country’s vaccination rate has almost doubled in the last one week amid a spike in confirmed infections. The expired doses – numbering 1,066,214 – were destroyed at a landfill in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, a week… Read More

Nigeria on Wednesday destroyed over one million expired doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines. The expired doses were destroyed at a landfill in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, a week after the nation said it would no longer accept donated COVID-19 vaccines with short shelf lives. According to the head of Nigerian National Primary Health Care Development Agency, Faisal Shuaib accepted the donations… Read More

Libya’s election board on Wednesday suggested that presidential polls should take place on January 24, after a parliamentary committee said holding them on time this week was “impossible” “The High National Electoral Commission suggests, after liaising with the House of Representatives, that the first round of voting should be delayed until January 24,” the HNEC said in a statement on… Read More

This is not the usual scene here at this beach here in Gambia. Ideally, as the yuletide approaches the beach would be full of tourist but the story changed since the emergence of Covid 19. In Banjul and elsewhere in the Gambia, the tourist season has been on since October but there is little or no signs of tourists here.… Read More

The president of Cameroon, Paul Biya, confirmed that the country would continue with preparations to organise the Africa Cup of Nations in January as planned. The announcement followed a meeting between President Biya and CAF President, Patrice Motsepe. The event is scheduled to take place in Cameroon between the 9th of January and the 6th of February. CAF President, Patrice… Read More

Former South African President Jacob Zuma will be allowed to appeal a court ruling that ordered him back to jail to serve the remainder of his sentence, a judge ruled Tuesday. Zuma, 80, had been released on medical parole earlier this year, but the Gauteng High Court in the capital, Pretoria, ruled last week that his parole had been illegal.… Read More

The former governor of Katanga, Moïse Katumbi, on Monday launched his party “Together for the Republic” in view of the 2023 presidential election in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), while remaining for the moment a member of the ruling coalition. The official launch of the activities of “Together for the Republic” took place in Kisangani, an important city in… Read More

In Burundi’s capital, drummers took part in the final of a drumming competition between participants from all of the country’s provinces. Listed as an intangible cultural heritage of humanity by UNESCO since 2014, the ritual dance of the royal drum is “a practice that shows happiness” and a tradition that Burundians hope to preserve and share with the world. “What… Read More

Hundreds joined the funeral procession of a Sudanese protester who was shot during recent mass demonstrations against the military takeover and a subsequent deal that reinstated Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, but sidelined the democratic movement. Abd al-Moneim Mohamed Ali died on Tuesday and later his family, friends and political activists held a mass funeral for him. On Sunday, tens of… Read More

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has refused to approve an amendment to the electoral law, which includes the organization of primaries to designate candidates for the presidential election scheduled in fourteen months. In a letter to Senate President Ahmed Lawan, read out in Parliament on Tuesday, Buhari said “the proposed amendment as it stands is a violation of … democracy, which… Read More