By David Ochieng Mbewa The Confederation of African Football on Monday announced the appointment of Constant Omari as interim president until a permanent replacement is elected during Friday’s elections. The decision was made hours after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) issued a ruling upholding a ban on Ahmad Ahmad by FIFA but reducing it…
By XINHUA Ghanaian President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will focus on the COVID-19 fight and economic recovery as his second term in office kicked off, Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah said here on Monday. “Three key policy directives are high on the president’s second-term agenda. These are winning the COVID-19 fight, implementing a robust economic recovery…
By Grace Kuria During the 2021 Buy local summit in South Africa, president Cyril Ramaphosa urged SA nationals to “be Proudly South African. Wear local, travel local, eat local, watch local content, read local authors, support local music, and use local raw materials in your businesses.” Ramaphosa said that with the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, the…
By XINHUA Ghana is expecting 2 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines from the COVAX facility by the end of May for its mass vaccination program, Director General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) Patrick Kuma-Aboagye said here on Monday. A total of 202,252 people have so far received one jab of the COVID-19 vaccine as of…
By Jerry Omondi The impact of COVID-19 is exacerbating conditions for refugee, displaced and stateless women and girls around the world, the United Nations Refugee Agency warned as the world marked the International Women’s Day. “The unprecedented socio-economic impacts of the pandemic are leaving many lives in peril. We are seeing extremely worrying increases in reports…
By David Ochieng Mbewa The Confederation of African Football (CAF) on Monday announced the cancellation of the Under-17 Africa Cup of Nations just days before its scheduled kick-off in Morocco. Morocco was due to host the 14th edition of the tournament in the cities of Rabat, Mohammedia and Casablanca from March 13-31. The decision was made following…
By Reuters French energy giant Total on Monday detailed steps it would take to mitigate the environmental and human impact from its Tilenga project in Uganda and a multibillion-dollar pipeline carrying oil from the country to Tanzania. Total and its partner China National Offshore Oil Corporation plan to exploit oil reserves in Lake Albert in Uganda…
By Grace Kuria Uganda will commence its COVID-19 vaccination programme on Wednesday, March 10th after receiving its first batch of 864,000 doses of the COVAX AstraZeneca vaccine on Friday. According to Health Minister Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng, “priority will be based on occupational risk of infection, risk of developing severe diseases, death from COVID-19 and population…
By XINHUA Zimbabwe’s mining sector is on course to attain a government target of hauling $12 billion worth of minerals by 2023, state-run Herald newspaper reported Monday. In 2019, Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa launched a strategic roadmap to achieving the ambitious plan as part of the government’s quest to revive the country’s economy and attain upper-middle-income…
By XINHUA COVID-19 is exacerbating inequities associated with gender in several key spheres of life and development, Matshidiso Moeti, World Health Organization (WHO) regional director for Africa said in a statement issued in Nairobi ahead of International Women’s Day to be marked on March 8. WHO said that African women bore the brunt of income losses,…
