Mon 22 March 2021: South African Health Ministry on Sunday said that the country sold all doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine against the coronavirus that it had at disposal to the member states of the African Union (AU). “The Minister of Health, Dr Zweli Mkhize, is pleased to announce that the sale of the Astra […]
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Sun 21 March 2021: Six lions have been found dead and mutilated in one of Uganda’s best-known national parks, with wildlife traffickers suspected of having poisoned the big cats. This happened in Queen Elizabeth National Park, located about 300 kilometers (186 miles) west of the country’s capital Kampala. The park attracts thousands of foreign tourists […]
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Fri 19 March 2021: The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is warning about an alarming increase in the number of attacks by an armed group on civilians in north-eastern parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) The number of attacks on civilians in the northeastern parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo, attributed […]
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Fri 19 March 2021: Higher Education, Science and Innovation Minister, Dr Blade Nzimande, says South Africa is in talks to sign a ground-breaking vaccine production contract with ImmunityBio, a US-based firm owned by a South African-born billionaire. The Minister said this on the sidelines of Deputy President David Mabuza’s visit to the Biovac Institute in […]
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Fri 19 March 2021: Reporters Without Borders on Wednesday called on the Algerian authorities to open an investigation into violence targeting journalists covering demonstrations in Algiers. The non-governmental organisation announced in a statement: “Five days have passed since journalists were attacked while covering the Friday demonstration organised weekly by the anti-regime movement.” The statement added […]
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Fri 19 March 2021: Tanzania’s Vice President Samia Suluhu Hassan will be sworn in on as president on Friday, following the death of John Magufuli. Hassan, 61, was sworn in at State House in the country’s commercial capital Dar es Salaam. She assumes the presidency following Wednesday’s announcement of the death of Magufuli, after a […]
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Fri 19 March 2021: The United States on Thursday said it will provide another nearly $52 million in aid to address the humanitarian conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement on Thursday. “The United States is providing an additional nearly $52 million in assistance to respond to the […]
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Thu 18 March 2021: South Africa has successfully inoculated more than 10% of its healthcare workers through the Sisonke Study, as more vaccine vials are expected to arrive this weekend. To support the country’s risk-based, three-phased National COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout Strategy, Sisonke has enabled government to make the Johnson & Johnson shots immediately available to […]
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Thu 18 March 2021: President Cyril Ramaphosa has challenged leaders to pick up King Goodwill Zwelithini KaBhekuzulu’s spear and continue the quest to build a better South Africa. Delivering the eulogy during a special memorial service for the late Zulu King, held at kwaKhethomthandayo Royal Palace in kwaNongoma on Thursday, President Ramaphosa said that one […]
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Wed 17 March 2021: In a televised address to the nation late on Wednesday, Vice President Samia Suluhu said the 61-year-old president had died of a “heart condition”, which he has suffered for a decade, at a hospital in Dar-Es-Salaam. Magufuli had first been briefly admitted to the Jakaya Kikwete Cardiac Institute on March 6, […]
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