Wed 29 September 2021: South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday asked the World Trade Organization to suspend intellectual property rights for Covid-19 vaccines to bridge the huge gap in vaccination rates worldwide. India and South Africa last year brought forward the intellectual property waiver proposal before the WTO but there has been no consensus. […]
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Tue 28 September 2021: Nigerian police said Tuesday they had arrested dozens of Shiite Muslim followers of an outlawed group after clashes during a religious procession in the nation’s capital. Abuja police said no casualties occurred when they dispersed the group, but a spokesman for the banned Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) said at least […]
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Tue 28 September 2021: The General Director of the World Health Organization on Tuesday apologized to the victims of sexual exploitation and abuse at the hands of four of WHO employees who responded to the 10th Ebola virus outbreak in the provinces of North Kivu and Ituri in the Democratic Republic of Congo. “To the […]
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Tue 28 September 2021: South Africa has administered 16 999 722 doses of COVID-19 jabs as of Monday evening, the Department of Health said. The tally includes the two-dose Pfizer vaccine as well as the single shot of the Johnson & Johnson jab. According to the latest data, 159 732 vaccines were distributed in the last […]
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Tue 28 September 2021: South Africa and the United Kingdom will today co-host the inaugural Information Communication Technology (ICT) Cyber Dialogue. According to the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO), the establishment of this discussion arises from the meeting held in January 2020, where issues of particular interest for South Africa were discussed, including […]
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Mon 27 September 2021: Two more mass graves were discovered southeast of Libya’s capital Tripoli in the city of Tarhuna, formerly held by the putschist Gen. Khalifa Haftar. In a statement over the weekend, the General Authority for Research and Identification of Missing Persons said bodies will be exhumed from the graves on Monday. Tarhuna, […]
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Mon 27 September 2021: Twenty-one percent of the country’s adult population is now fully vaccinated after 6 187 people either received a Johnson & Johnson shot or the second jab of the Pfizer vaccine on Sunday. According to Health Department, South Africa administered 9 419 jabs in the past 24 hours, pushing the total to 16 827 790, while […]
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Sun 26 September 2021: Hundreds of Tunisians demonstrated Saturday in Sfax in southern Tunisia on Saturday to demand an end to President Kais Saied’s move to pool powers. Tow hundred people took part in the protests in Sfax and chanted slogans such as “Touching the constitution is the red line,” “People want the Constitution to […]
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Sat 25 September 2021: According to authorities, at least eight people were killed in Somalia’s capital on Saturday, including soldiers and civilians, in a suicide car bombing that targeted a security checkpoint near the presidential palace. “What we know so far is that at least seven people, among them soldiers, were killed, and more than […]
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Sat 25 September 2021: Archaeologists in Morocco have identified clothes-making tools fashioned from bone dating back 120,000 years, the oldest ever found, one of the researchers said. “It’s a major discovery because while older bone tools have been found elsewhere, it’s the first time we have identified bone tools (this old) that were used to […]
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