Accra, Ghana & Mumbai, Maharashtra, India: Merck Foundation CEO, Rasha Kelej, featured in the list of 100 Most Influential African Women 2020, by Avance Media as part of “Be a Girl” Initiative for her efforts to build health care capacity in Africa and to empower girls in education to help them reach their potential and…
The Nigerian government is set to establish a center for artificial intelligence and robotics to achieve a robust digital economy, according to an official statement made available to Xinhua on Thursday. The proposed state-of-the-art facility is for emerging technologies in the areas of networking, research development, information, and communication security, said the statement issued by…
Four gunmen were killed when Nigerian troops carried out a raid on a suspected hideout of bandits in the northern state of Kaduna, a military spokesman said on Thursday. The operation, which was carried out on Wednesday, is in continuation of the “sustained offensive against armed bandits and other criminal elements in the country,” said…
Kenya recorded 212 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday from 3,937 samples tested in the past 24 hours, Health CAS Rashid Aman announced. Dr Aman also said that another 195 patients had recovered from the disease during the same period, raising the total number of recoveries to 20,644.The death toll in the country stands at 585…
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…
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…
