Tue 20 April 2021: Health Minister, Dr Zweli Mkhize, says government is hoping to inoculate 46.2 million South Africans by March 2022. However, this is provided the country receives the millions of vaccines that the nation has secured from drug makers. “This tally excludes the 500 000 that will be vaccinated under the Sisonke Protocol. […]
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Tue 20 April 2021: Chad’s President Idriss Debby has died while visiting troops on the front lines of a fight against northern rebels, an army spokesman said on Tuesday. According to a confirmation from the national army of Chad read on national radio, the newly re-elected President Idriss Déby has died of wounds he received […]
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Mon 19 April 2021: Ethiopia has declared a state of emergency in the southern part of Amhara regional state amid violence in various towns. In a statement on Sunday, the Ministry of Defense said the last three days have seen deadly armed violence in Ataye town and several other areas in Oromia special zones. The […]
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Mon 19 April 2021: Firefighters in South Africa continued to battle a wildfire raging out of control in the city of Cape Town late Sunday after it destroyed a historic university’s library and a cafe. “The wildfire on the slopes of Table Mountain National Park continues to burn. Several buildings on the University of Cape […]
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Sun 18 April 2021: South Africa’s health watchdog SAPHRA has recommended resuming the rollout of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, days after it was paused over blot clotting concerns. South Africa stopped administering the US-made vaccine after the US food and Drug Administration said that six women aged 18 to 48 had developed a rare […]
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Sun 18 April 2021: The legislature in the autonomous Somalian state of Puntland voted overwhelmingly on Saturday to deny the national president two more years in office after he extended his mandate. Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed drew condemnation at home and abroad after he signed an extension of his mandate into law this week. His four-year […]
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Sun 18 April 2021: The US State Department on Saturday ordered non-essential diplomats at the US Embassy in Chad to leave the landlocked African nation due to potential insurgent attacks on the capital N’Djamena. In addition to non-essential embassy staff, the department also ordered the families of American personnel stationed there to leave because armed […]
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Sat 17 April 2021: Eritrea has acknowledged its troops are participating in the war in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region but has vowed to pull them out amid mounting international pressure. The first explicit admission of Eritrea’s role in the fighting came in a letter posted online Friday night by the country’s information minister, written by […]
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Fri 16 April 2021: The United States provided supplies that will be used to build a temporary shelter for more than 80,000 people who had been forced to flee their homes after the conflict broke out in Ethiopia’s Tigray, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Friday. “IOM today received over 1,500 rolls of […]
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Fri 16 April 2021: South Africa launched on Friday an electronic platform where citizens aged 60 and older can register to get vaccinated against COVID-19, marking the first time in the country’s democratic history that a major public health campaign is supported by a one-for-all digital system. Health Minister Zweli Mkhize described the launch of […]
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