Tue 17 August 2021: Algerian police Tuesday announced another 25 arrests over the lynching of a man falsely accused of starting deadly forest fires last week, taking the total number of suspects to 61. The latest arrests were made in several provinces across the country, police said in a statement, adding that the suspects were […]
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Mon 16 August 2021: The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) has authorised local biotechnology company CapeBio to manufacture rapid COVID-19 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test kits. Announcing the approval of the test kits on Monday, Science, Technology and Innovation Minister, Dr Blade Nzimande, said the COVID-19 test kits, co-developed by CapeBio and […]
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Mon 16 August 2021: The South African Medical Association (SAMA) has expressed its dismay at reports that some healthcare workers, including doctors, have discouraged patients from getting COVID-19 vaccinations, based on doubts about the vaccine’s safety and effectiveness. SAMA Chairperson, Dr Angelique Coetzee, said the organisation wholly rejects any doubts about the COVID-19 vaccine. “There […]
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Mon 16 August 2021: Hakainde Hichilema, Zambia’s leading opposition leader, overcame 15 years of challenges to win a landslide victory in the country’s presidential election early Monday. Hichilema, an economist fondly known as HH, of the United Party for National Development (UPND), received 2,810,757 votes, beating his closest rival and incumbent Edgar Lungu of the […]
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Sat 14 August 2021: On Friday, the United Nations issued a warning about widespread and systematic sexual violence in the southern Democratic Republic of Congo, claiming that women were reporting armed groups committing mass rape. UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, said its staff were hearing horrific testimonies from forcibly displaced persons in the DR Congo’s […]
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Fri 13 August 2021: As government ramps up the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccination programme, Minister of Health, Dr Joe Phaahla, has assured South Africans that vaccines are safe, effective and protect lives. Addressing a media briefing on government’s efforts in the fight against COVID-19 and the national vaccination rollout programme, the Minister said South […]
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Fri 13 August 2021: The Department of Employment and Labour has approved the Unemployment Insurance Fund’s temporary relief scheme to assist workers of looted businesses in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng. In a statement on Friday, the department said the UIF’s Destroyed, Affected or Looted Workplaces: Temporary Financial Relief Scheme has finally been approved through the Government […]
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Fri 13 August 2021: Twenty-two people have been arrested in Algeria after being suspected of causing the wildfires that have killed 65 people, the president revealed yesterday. At least 28 soldiers were among the dead as the North African country deployed the army to help firefighters contain blazes that ravaged houses in forested areas. Abdelmadjid Tebboune explained […]
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Thu 12 August 2021: Voting in Zambia’s tightly-contested general elections began on Thursday with long queues in polling stations in the capital Lusaka. Incumbent President Edgar Lungu was the first voter at Andrew Mwenya Polling Station at Crawford school in the sprawling Chawama Shanty Compound in Lusaka, who urged people to maintain peace as they […]
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Thu 12 August 2021: The Zimbabwean government announced Wednesday that only fully-vaccinated people can now attend church services. This follows six weeks of suspension of any church gathering under the Level 4 lockdown to control a third wave of the pandemic, which among other measures bans inter-city travel, public gatherings and curtails business hours. […]
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