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![]() EU eyes scheme to share surplus COVID-19 vaccines with poorer nations Credit: Reuters Studio Duration: 00:43Published | |
![]() Mo Abudu expands possibilities for African media Credit: Bleacher Report AOL Duration: 23:05Published | |
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Will support Africa without conditionalities: India at UNSCAs several African countries grapple with a debt crisis after having acquired concessional loans from China, India on Wednesday said it was committed to supporting Africa as per African priorities and..IndiaTimes - Published | |
Covid-19 vaccine to have differential pricing: Pfizer"We are having a tier pricing. It is one price for the developed world based on their GDP, another price, lower for the middle-income countries and in the low-income countries, like countries in Africa..IndiaTimes - Published | |
India welcomes removal of Sudan from state sponsors of terrorism listIndia on Monday welcomed the removal of Sudan from the US list of state sponsors of terrorism as well as the normalisation of relations between the African nation and Israel.IndiaTimes - Published | |
3 of every 5 'very high water risk' cities are in India: WWFWith 31 cities exposed to serious water security risks, India has run into a greater challenge than entire continents of Africa or Europe, data from a study by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)..IndiaTimes - Published | |
7 Indians kidnapped in Libya; govt in touch with Libyan authorities to rescue them: MEASeven Indians, hailing from Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh were kidnapped in Libya last month and India is in touch with authorities in the African nation to secure their release, the..IndiaTimes - Published | |
India exported pets to ancient Africa and Europe — 2000 years agoIndiaTimes - Published | |
COVID-19 hits fast-dwindling Andaman tribeThe Great Andamanese are one of the six tribes of Mongoloid and African origin, who have lived in the Andamans in the Bay of Bengal for thousands of years.DNA - Published | |
Namibia faces red locust invasionNamibia's Ministry of Agriculture said on Wednesday it had detected an outbreak of red locusts in central regions of the southern African country and had sent pest control teams to the affected areas.Reuters - Published | |
Exclusive: African nations seek U.N. inquiry into U.S. racism, 'police brutality': textAfrican countries are lobbying to set up a U.N. inquiry into "systemic racism" and "police brutality" in the United States and elsewhere, aiming to defend the rights of people of African descent, a..Reuters - Published | |
Nigerian doctors strike for better benefits during coronavirus crisisResident doctors in Nigerian public hospitals went on strike on Monday to demand better benefits as they battle the coronavirus pandemic in Africa's most populous country, the union said.Reuters - Published | |
Death toll in migrant ship disaster off Tunisia rises to 61The death toll from a ship packed with African migrants that sank off the Tunisian coast this week has risen to 61, a local official said on Saturday.Reuters - Published | |
Botswana reinstates strict coronavirus lockdown in capital cityBotswana brought back a strict coronavirus lockdown in its capital city, Gaborone, and surrounding areas after the southern African country recorded 12 new cases of the virus, a senior health official..Reuters - Published | Pandemic 'accelerating' in Africa, test kits needed, WHO saysThe coronavirus pandemic is "accelerating" in Africa, spreading from capital cities where it arrived with travellers, but it does not appear that severe cases and deaths are being missed, the World..Reuters - Published |
Jobs gone, investments wasted: Africa's deserted safaris leave mounting tollWhen Khimbini Hlongwane spent most of his small safari tour company's savings on the deposit for a new minibus in February, it seemed like a safe bet.Reuters - Published | Outgoing Burundi president Nkurunziza, famed for soccer and violence, diesPresident Pierre Nkurunziza, a fitness enthusiast who increasingly relied on religion and repression to rule the impoverished and unstable central African nation of Burundi for 15 years, has died, the..Reuters - Published |
Outgoing Burundian president Pierre Nkurunziza diesPresident Pierre Nkurunziza, who ruled the impoverished and unstable central African nation of Burundi for 15 years, has died, the government announced on Tuesday.Reuters - Published | At least 20 die as migrant boat sinks off TunisiaAt least 20 African migrants died when a boat carrying more than 50 people sank off Tunisia, an official said on Tuesday.Reuters - Published |
WHO denies its representative falsified Equatorial Guinea COVID-19 dataThe World Health Organization (WHO) said the expulsion of its representative in Equatorial Guinea followed a "misunderstanding over data" and denied that she had falsified the central African nation's..Reuters - Published | Stranded in Central America, migrants demand passage to U.S. borderPanama has stepped up border controls in the vast and wild Darien Province that neighbors Colombia, authorities said on Thursday, after some members of a group of 1,900 migrants from as far afield as..Reuters - Published |
WHO says its representative told to leave Equatorial GuineaEquatorial Guinea is "severely affected" by the coronavirus, the World Health Organization's (WHO) Africa head said on Thursday, as its representative in the country was told to leave.Reuters - Published | Lunar Eclipse June 2020: Date, time & all other detailsPeople from Asia, Europe, Africa and Australia will be able to witness the penumbral lunar eclipse on June 5 and 6. Lunar eclipses occur when the Earth's shadow blocks the sun's light. There are three..IndiaTimes - Published |
African, Caribbean migrants continue trek towards U.S. borderMigrants from Africa and the Caribbean, stranded in Honduras after Central American countries closed their borders to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus, on Wednesday kept marching north in an..Reuters - Published | Africa hit by sustained community spread of coronavirus: disease centreCases of community transmission of the new coronavirus are growing in Africa, particularly in Ethiopia, and a new strategy for testing is needed to prevent this, the head of the Africa Centres for..Reuters - Published |
Wave of migration strains Spain's Canary Islands amid pandemicAbout 80 African migrants packed aboard two fishing boats landed on the Spanish island of Gran Canaria on Tuesday, adding to the hundreds of new arrivals now stuck there while the coronavirus lockdown..Reuters - Published | WHO fears 'silent' virus epidemic unless Africa prioritizes testingAfrica has so far been spared the worst impact of the coronavirus, but the World Health Organization is worried the continent could face a "silent epidemic" if its leaders do not prioritize testing for..Reuters - Published |
South America a new COVID epicenter, Africa reaches 100,000 casesSouth America has become a new epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic with Brazil hardest-hit, while cases are rising in some African countries that so far have a relatively low death toll, the World..Reuters - Published | UK's Blair: Patchy data means Africa could use antibody tests to track COVID-19African nations should use antibody tests to find out whether the slower spread and lower mortality rate of the new coronavirus on the continent is due to patchy data or a more resilient population,..Reuters - Published |
U.S. reaches consensus with Sudan on 'contours' of future claims dealThe United States and Sudan have reached a common understanding on the "contours" of a future bilateral claims agreement linked to the 1998 al Qaeda bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania,..Reuters - Published | Asia Rice: India prices scale one-year peak, cyclone hits Bangladesh cropRice prices in top exporter India hit a more than one-year peak this week bolstered by robust demand from African and Asian countries, while a cyclone damaged some crops in Bangladesh.Reuters India - Published |
Wealthy countries failing Africa during pandemic, presidents sayWealthy countries are failing Africa, with pledges of financial support and debt relief falling well short of the continent's needs as it battles the COVID-19 pandemic, several African presidents said..Reuters - Published | Lesotho PM, named as suspect in murder case, bows to pressure to quitLesotho's Prime Minister Thomas Thabane bowed to pressure to resign on Tuesday, three months after police named him and his current wife as suspects in the murder of his former wife in a case that has..Reuters - Published |
Lesotho PM Thomas Thabane resigns, soothing political crisisLesotho's Prime Minister Thomas Thabane resigned on Tuesday, removing the main hurdle to resolving a political crisis that engulfed the small southern African mountain kingdom late last year.Reuters - Published | Lesotho prime minister Thomas Thabane resignsLesotho's Prime Minister Thomas Thabane resigned on Tuesday as leader of the small southern African mountain kingdom, he announced on the national broadcaster.Reuters - Published |
South Africa BCG booster trials seek low-cost weapon against COVID-19The idea of testing the BCG vaccine in Africa against COVID-19 was bound to cause controversy, yet officials say efforts underway could, if successful, give the continent a cheap and easily deployable..Reuters - Published | U.S. Supreme Court heaps more damages on Sudan in embassy bombing casesThe U.S. Supreme Court dealt a legal setback to Sudan on Monday, ruling that the African nation cannot avoid punitive damages it was ordered to pay in lawsuits accusing it of complicity in the 1998 al..Reuters - Published |
Africa backs WHO, needs help with debt relief, supplies: RamaphosaSouth Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Monday that Africa affirms its "full support" for the World Health Organization (WHO) which he said had been key in guiding the international response..Reuters - Published | Nearly 50 migrants plucked from waters off Spain's Gran CanariaSpain's coast guard rescued 49 African migrants from a dinghy drifting a few miles off the coast of Gran Canaria on Sunday, a spokesman for the organisation said, the latest arrivals in a months-long..Reuters - Published |
After China, India reaches out to LAC, African countries with medicine diplomacyAs China woos the world with Covid-related assistance, India is also looking to spread its medicine diplomacy net far and wide. While many countries like the US have purchased the antimalarial drug —..IndiaTimes - Published | Remote Lesotho becomes last country in Africa to record COVID-19 caseLesotho recorded its first case of COVID-19 on Wednesday, the health ministry said, becoming the last country in Africa to be afflicted by the virus.Reuters - Published |
Women, migrants, minorities to suffer most in Latin America as coronavirus rages: U.N. agencyThe coronavirus pandemic will make a bad economic situation worse for women, indigenous people, migrants and people of African descent in Latin America, a region already plagued by deep-rooted..Reuters - Published | Italy magistrates open probe after freed aid worker bombarded by hate mailAn Italian aid worker, freed at the weekend after being held hostage for 18 months by Islamist militants in Africa, has been deluged with hate mail because she converted to Islam, judicial sources said..Reuters - Published |
India to dispatch key medicines to more than 25 African countriesIndiaTimes - Published | Madagascar coronavirus herbal mix draws demand from across Africa despite WHO misgivingsMadagascar is putting its self-proclaimed, plant-based "cure" for COVID-19 on sale and several countries in Africa have already put in orders for purchase, despite warnings from the World Health..Reuters - Published |
U.N. triples coronavirus appeal to $6.7 billion to help poor countriesThe United Nations on Thursday more than tripled its appeal to help vulnerable countries combat the spread and destabilizing effects of the coronavirus pandemic, asking for $6.7 billion to help 63..Reuters - Published | Africa disease centre rejects Tanzania's allegation that its coronavirus tests faultyThe head of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday rejected an assertion by Tanzania's president that coronavirus tests it supplied are faulty.Reuters - Published |
Exclusive: Virus exposes gaping holes in Africa’s health systemsAfrican nations are facing a surge of COVID-19 cases with less than one intensive care bed and one ventilator per 100,000 people, a Reuters survey has found.Reuters - Published |