COVID-19 pandemic not over, WHO warn
24/05/2022The Covid-19 pandemic is “most certainly not over”, the head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned, despite a decline in reported cases since the peak of the Omicron.
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Hundreds evacuated amid renewed flooding in South Africa’s coastal province
23/05/2022Hundreds of people have been evacuated to safety after heavy rains once again hammered South Africa’s coastal province of KwaZulu-Natal, flooding roads and houses and damaging properties, a government official.
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Nigeria plans healthcare funds for poor without schemes
23/05/2022Nigeria plans to set up a healthcare fund to cover up to 83 million poor people who cannot afford premiums for insurance schemes, President Muhammadu Buhari said at the signing.
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African Development Bank approves $1.5 billion emergency food facility
23/05/2022The African Development Bank, AfDB, has approved a $1.5 billion emergency food production facility for about 20 million farmers in Africa. The fund is expected to help avoid a looming.
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China’s Sinosteel signs $680 million iron ore mine deal with Cameroon
23/05/2022Cameroon’s government has signed a 420 billion CFA franc ($675.96 million) high-grade iron ore mining deal with a subsidiary of Sinosteel Corporation Limited as China seeks new sources of the.
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South Sudan Gets First Permanent Bridge Over Nile
20/05/2022After it was formally opened on Thursday, jubilant people flocked to cross South Sudan‘s first permanent bridge over the Nile. The Japanese government funded the construction of the 560-metre-long Freedom.
Peace and Security
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AU Sets Sights on Terrorism and Unconstitutional Regime Change
20/05/2022The African Union (AU) will hold an Extraordinary Summit focusing on the challenges of terrorism and violent extremism in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, from May 28, 2022, with a view to.
Africa
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UN urged to take action to prevent genocide in Ethiopia
20/05/2022Fifteen African civil society organisations have warned that the ongoing war in Ethiopia could equal the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda unless the United Nations immediately puts the.
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US announces $215m food assistance to African countries
20/05/2022United States Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, has said that the US government would provide an additional $215 million in emergency food assistance in Nigeria, Algeria, Cameroon, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Mauritania,.
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Rwanda’s Salima Mukansanga Part of History as FIFA Names Women to Referee at World Cup for First Time
20/05/2022Rwanda’s Salima Mukansanga is one of the female match officials appointed as FIFA announced women referees would officiate at a men’s World Cup finals for the first time at the.