Former Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita is receiving treatment at a private medical clinic in the capital, Bamako. Media reports say Keita was admitted to the Pasteur Clinic late Tuesday, 10 days after he was detained during a military coup by members of the National Committee for the Salvation of the People, who are now…
Merck Foundation’s first Online Summit with African First Ladies to strengthen healthcare capacity and joint response to COVID 19 Merck Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Merck KGaA Germany conducted their first Video Conference Summit of Merck Foundation First Ladies Initiative (MFFLI) on 31st August 2020 to define and follow up on different joint programs that aims…
Four more patients have succumbed to the coronavirus in Kenya raising the country’s COVID-19 death toll to 581. In a statement issued on Wednesday, the Ministry of Health also announced that 178 more people have tested positive, from a sample size of 3,474, bringing to 34, 493 the number of confirmed positive cases. “From the…
Namibia’s health care workers constitute 4.2 percent of the total confirmed COVID-19 cases recorded since the outbreak, an official said Wednesday. Namibia’s Health Minister Kalumbi Shangula in a daily update said Namibia has recorded a total number of 333 health workers who have been infected with COVID-19. “We noticed that the number of health workers…
South Africa’s power crisis worsened on Wednesday as electricity utility Eskom escalated the level of load shedding from level two to level four. This was the highest level of load shedding that has been implemented this year. Stage-two load shedding allows up to 2,000 MW to be shed, while stage four calls for 4,000 MW…
The number of elephants dying in western Zimbabwe from a suspected bacterial infection, possibly from eating poisonous plants, has risen to 22, and “more deaths are expected,” a spokesman for the country’s parks agency said Wednesday. Most of the elephants dying in the Pandamasue Forest, located between the vast Hwange National Park and Victoria Falls,…
Namibia’s flagship airport, Hosea Kutako International Airport has reopened and is preparing for the resumption of international flights, the Namibia Airports Company (NAC) said Tuesday. “The company has set in motion its restart plan to ensure airport readiness upon the resumption of international flights under the provisions of the state of the emergency regulations on…
The West African nation of Togo has eliminated human African trypanosomiasis or “sleeping sickness” as a public health problem, becoming the first in the continent to achieve the milestone, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) has said. “Togo is a pathfinder in eliminating sleeping sickness, a disease which has threatened millions of Africans,” Dr. Matshidiso…
Two crew members from a tugboat involved in cleaning up an oil spill off Mauritius were killed late on Monday when their vessel collided with a barge in bad weather, a local lawmaker said. Four other members of the crew were rescued by helicopter and two were still missing, Mahend Gungerpersad, a member of parliament…
Ousted Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir appeared in court on Tuesday at the start of a trial over the military coup in which he took power in 1989. Giving his profession as “former president of the republic”, Bashir seemed in good physical condition as he appeared in a metal courtroom cage wearing white prison-issue clothes and…
