By AP Francis Ngannou has been the next big thing in the UFC heavyweight division for several years. Just about everyone believed greatness was within the powerful Cameroonian challenger’s reach if he could ever put his prodigious talents together. All that potential was realized in six sensational minutes Saturday night when Ngannou took the belt…
By XINHUA The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Africa has reached 4,166,555 as of Saturday noon, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said. The Africa CDC, the specialized healthcare agency of the African Union (AU), said the death toll from the pandemic stood at 111,540, while 3,734,641 patients across the…
By XINHUA Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni and First Lady Janet Museveni on Saturday received their first dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines at State House in the capital, Kampala. “I encourage all Ugandans who qualify for this vaccination to go to health facilities and get it,” said Museveni in a tweet. Ruth Aceng, Uganda’s health minister,…
By AFP Africa experienced a 30-percent rise in infections in its second wave of coronavirus last year but implemented fewer public health measures than in the first, research showed Thursday. Writing in The Lancet medical journal, researchers said a loosening of public health measures such as distancing and intermittent lockdowns probably contributed to higher death tolls…
By Jerry Omondi Kenya’s leading mobile network operator, Safaricom, is scheduled to unveil the country’s first fifth-generation (5G) mobile internet service on Friday. The 5G technology will be supplied by Huawei and Nokia. The unveiling of the 5G by Safaricom will make it the first in the region to roll out the service for commercial…
By AFP Mozambique rolled out a new easy- to-administer preventative drug for latent tuberculosis that hugely slashes costs and the pill burden for patients. The rollout came on World Tuberculosis Day, which aims to raise awareness of the disease. The fixed-dose combination therapy of three pills per week, taken over three months, is expected to…
By XINHUA About 225 agricultural operators in Benin on Tuesday began a one-month training session on Chinese expertise in farm machinery operation which aims to improve cotton productivity in the country. Slated to end on April 24, the training session is hosted by the China-Benin agricultural pilot center at Seme-Kpodji, about 20 km southeast of…
By XINHUA The mobile phone communication services industry has over the years provided a host of employment opportunities across Africa through its range of services. Among the opportunities created by the industry are mobile money services, which involve the electronic receipt, transfer, and storage of money using a cellular phone. In Zambia, mobile phone network…
By Grace Kuria More than 215,000 Nigerians have received their first dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines. The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) said on Tuesday. The figure is almost double the number of people inoculated by Monday, March 22, as announced by the head of the agency, Faisal Shuaib. Shuaib also said,…
By AFP AstraZeneca says it is standing by its coronavirus vaccine despite concerns from the United States about trial results that showed the shot to be highly effective in preventing COVID-19. AstraZeneca had published results from its U.S. trials on Monday, showing the vaccine to be 79 percent effective in preventing COVID-19, but the U.S. National Institute…
