Sat 09 October 2021: French President Emmanuel Macron said Friday at a summit that his country has “no goal of staying in Mali for a long time.” The Africa-France Summit was held in Montpellier, where young Africans participated without the involvement of the heads of states of African countries. Macron, the only president at the […]
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Fri 08 October 2021: Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio signed a bill abolishing the death sentence on Friday, making his country the latest African country to do so. The move comes after lawmakers in the West African country voted in July to abolish the death penalty, replacing it with life in prison or a […]
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Fri 08 October 2021: South Africans can now download their digital COVID-19 vaccination certificate following the official launch by the Minister of Health, Dr Joe Phaahla. Addressing a media briefing on government’s efforts in the fight against COVID-19 and the national vaccination rollout programme on Friday, the Minister said the certificate could be used for travel […]
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Thu 07 October 2021: The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Wednesday that only approved vaccine against malaria by the World Health Organization (WHO) should be widely distributed to African children, marking a significant step forward in the fight against a disease that kills hundreds of thousands of people each year. RTS,S, also known as […]
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Thu 07 October 2021: International Relations and Cooperation Minister, Dr Naledi Pandor, will hold talks with Palestine Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Dr Riad Malki, during an official visit to South Africa. According to the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (Dirco), the visit will take place from today to Saturday, 9 October 2021. […]
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Thu 07 October 2021: A Bill which, in the main, lays out the legal framework for the establishment of the National Council on Gender Based Violence and Femicide is expected to be introduced to Parliament within the financial year. The National Council on Gender-Based Violence and Femicide Bill 2021 will be introduced by Women, Youth […]
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Thu 07 October 2021: Ndakasi, a mountain gorilla from the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Virunga National Park, has reappeared in the news. The update will break your heart this time. Due to a long illness, the 14-year-old gorilla died. Ndakasi became famous in 2019 because she photobombed a snapshot of her forest ranger. Back then, […]
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Thu 07 October 2021: Moderna plans to invest about $500 million to build a factory in Africa to make up to 500 million doses of mRNA vaccines each year, including its COVID-19 shot, as pressure grows on the pharmaceutical industry to manufacture drugs on the continent. Moderna’s proposed site will also include bottling and packaging capabilities. The company said […]
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Wed 06 October 2021: The Department of Health has confirmed that its currently testing South Africa’s digital COVID-19 vaccine certificate to “troubleshoot” all possible glitches ahead of the official launch. This comes after the South African COVID-19 Vaccine Certificate System portal went live on Tuesday. The system will allow users to create a QR code […]
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Wed 06 October 2021: The Southern African Development Community (SADC), a regional bloc of 16 countries, approved the extension Tuesday of the deployment of a regional force fighting terrorists in northern Mozambique, according to a statement. The bloc deployed a regional standby force to a mission in Mozambique on July 15 this year which is […]
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