Wed 29 December 2021: The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Africa has reached 9,519,699 as of Tuesday evening, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said. The death toll across the continent stands at 227,708 and total recoveries stand at some 8,556,200, it said. South Africa has recorded the most COVID-19 […]
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Wed 29 December 2021: The Department of Health says the implementation of the revised COVID-19 contract tracing, quarantine and isolation protocols released last week have been suspended. In a statement, the department said it has been “inundated with media, stakeholders and public enquiries and comments” since the release of the new protocols – leading to […]
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Tue 28 December 2021: On Tuesday, US President Joe Biden lifted the travel ban imposed on eight southern African countries following the discovery of the Omicron coronavirus variant in the region. “Having learned more about the Omicron variant in the past several weeks, the CDC now recommends lifting the travel restrictions imposed in Proclamation 10315 […]
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Tue 28 December 2021: South Africa has recorded at least 3 782 new COVID-19 infections over the past 24-hour reporting cycle, with 15 more fatalities reported. This brings the total number of infections to 3 417 318, with the national death toll reaching 90 829. There were 150 more hospitalisations due to the virus. According to the […]
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Mon 27 December 2021: Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed sacked the country’s prime minister on Monday for alleged corruption and mismanagement of public lands. “The president decided to suspend prime minister Mohamed Hussein Roble and stop his powers since he was linked with corruption,” the office of the president said in a statement on Monday, […]
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Sun 26 December 2021: Armed groups attacked the troubled north of Burkina Faso, killing dozens of people. The authorities confirmed that 41 people were killed in the attack on Thursday. The administration stated the dead included members of the Volunteers for the Defence of the Motherland (VDP), a government-backed civilian self-defense organization set up to […]
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Sun 26 December 2021: The bodies of more than a dozen migrants who drowned trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe washed up on Libya’s coastline late on Saturday, its interior ministry and the local Red Crescent said, reported Reuters. Libya is a major transit point for migrants, many from African countries, who are seeking better […]
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Sun 26 December 2021: Desmond Tutu, a retired archbishop and anti-apartheid icon from South Africa, has died at the age of 90. Tutu, a Nobel Laureate and a veteran of South Africa’s struggle against white minority rule, passed away on Sunday. “The passing of Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu is another chapter of bereavement in our […]
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Sat 25 December 2021: South Africa’s big three pathology groups, Pathcare, Lancet and Ampath, are expected to lower the price of COVID-19 Rapid Antigen tests to no more than R150 per test. This after a Competition Commission investigation found that the three groups may have contravened the Competition Act, which prohibits dominant companies from charging […]
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Sat 25 December 2021: South Africa on Friday, condemned the planned auction of the key to the prison cell where ex-president and national hero Nelson Mandela was once imprisoned. The key to Mandela’s cell on Robben Island, where he was imprisoned for 27 years, will be auctioned on January 28 by Guernsey’s, a British auction […]
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