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Africa’s first mRNA vaccine hub was ceremonially launched on Thursday to acclaim from the UN’s global health chief, who hailed it as a historic shift to help poor countries gain access to life-saving jabs. The facility was set up in the South African city of Cape Town in 2021 on the back of the success of revolutionary anti-Covid vaccines introduced… Read More

South Africa, the continent’s most industrialised country, is in the grip of an energy crisis that critics say is much deeper than the authorities openly acknowledge. The periodic electricity blackouts are expected to reach a critical stage as winter arrives in the Southern Hemisphere and sends energy demand soaring, experts warn. Over the past 15 years, South Africa’s electricity crisis… Read More

This year’s Eid in Mali is not going to look anything like those celebrated in recent years. In livestock markets around the capital Bamako, the prices of animals have shot up remarkably. Butchers and consumers alike are being asked for upwards of 500 Eur a cow. The same figure would get you two animals not so long ago. “The high… Read More

Sixth day of fighting in Sudan as ceasefire between the army and the powerful paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces (RSF) failed. This is the second ceasefire they have broken. Thousands of residents have fled the capital, Khartoum. So have some 320 soldiers who were detained in neighbouring Chad. “I already have 320 soldiers who are already in our territory, their… Read More

A Ukrainian Nobel peace prize winner on Wednesday called on South Africa not to allow Russian President Vladimir Putin to attend a BRICS summit in the country in August. Oleksandra Romantsova, the head of an NGO that became the winner of Ukraine’s first ever peace prize last year, urged the South African government to “show us that they care”. The… Read More

The US Department of Justice on Tuesday indicted the founder and three members of an African-American nationalist group, accused of collaborating with Russian intelligence services to influence elections in the United States. Omali Yeshitela, founder of the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP) and the Uhuru Movement, and three other party members, Penny Joanne Hess, Jesse Nevel, and Augustus Romain, are… Read More

In Uganda, Gladys Atto has been on a mission to fight preventable blindness since she graduated as an ophthalmologist from Mbarara University of Science and Technology. She heads the eye care department at Moroto Regional Hospital, a facility that remains too remote for thousands of patients in northeastern Uganda. Anxious to leave no one behind, she treats the inhabitants of… Read More

Will Sadio Mané and Leroy Saané be paired up to topple Manchester City tonight (Apr. 19) in the second leg of the Champions League quarterfinals? One week after their 3-0 defeat to the Citizens in England and their violent post-match dispute their coach Thomas Tuchel said Tuesday (Apr.18) that the case was closed. The German said he’d rely on the… Read More

The UN Special Envoy to the Great Lakes region urged the Security Council Wednesday to push harder for peace as he noted “a slight improvement to the situation” on the ground. This comes after months of fighting and regional mediations for a halt of hostilities in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. “A fragile calm has now begun to… Read More

The wave of misinformation currently targeting the Electoral Commission and Supreme Court judges in Nigeria, who are called upon to rule on the presidential election, reveals a vast discredit of institutions in Africa’s most populous country, according to experts. While elections in Nigeria are often characterized by vote-buying and violence, technical failures and delays in the transmission of results observed… Read More