By XINHUA Enhanced protection of pangolins should be a priority amid growing threats to their survival linked to illegal hunting and climatic stresses, an African campaigner said on Saturday during the World Pangolin Day. Edith Kabesiime, the campaigns manager at World Animal Protection African Office, said the nocturnal, scaled mammal that is found in tropical forests…
By XINHUA Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Saturday urged all Zimbabweans to be vaccinated against COVID-19, saying that this was the only way to conquer the pandemic. Addressing mourners at the burial of national hero Moses Mpofu at the National Heroes Acre, Mnangagwa said the vaccines which Zimbabwe had received from China earlier in the week…
By XINHUA Namibia’s tourism industry lost about 3.2 billion Namibian dollars (about 220 million US dollars) from travel-related service as a result of COVID-19, Bank of Namibia governor Johannes Gawaxab said Wednesday. According to Gawaxab, the lack of activity due to the restriction of people’s movements and the compulsory closure of leisure and catering facilities due…
By XINHUA A seamless roll-out of COVID-19 vaccine in Africa hinges on improving the knowledge of the continent’s frontline health care workers in critical areas like storage, supply chains management and effective communication to the public, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday. Ambrose Talisuna, emergency preparedness programme manager at WHO Regional Office for Africa…
By CGTN Africa New outbreaks of the deadly Ebola virus disease in the two African countries of Guinea and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are sending new jitters to Africa as the continent is grappling with the COVID-19 pandemic. In the West African country Guinea, bordering the Atlantic Ocean to the west, health authorities…
By David Ochieng Mbewa Egyptian side Al Ahly overcame a furstrating start to defeat Al-Merreikh of Sudan in their opening Group A match of this season’s CAF Champions League. The match had been rescheduled due to Al Ahly’s participation at the recently concluded FIFA Club World Cup in Qatar where they finished third. The defending champions…
By CGTN Africa The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday asked six African countries to be alert for possible Ebola infections, as Guinea reported new cases and the Democratic Republic of Congo said its new infections were a resurgence of a previous outbreak. “We have already alerted the six countries around, including of course Sierra Leone…
By XINHUA COVID-19’s case fatality rate in Botswana has increased to one percent since January from 0.3 percent last year, an official said Monday. Mosepele Mosepele, the deputy coordinator of Botswana’s COVID-19 Task Force Team, said the number of confirmed deaths alienated by the number of confirmed cases clearly shows a significant growth in ratio. In…
By AFP The United States on Tuesday warned that, despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the world “cannot afford to turn the other way” after cases of Ebola were confirmed in Guinea and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Five people have died of the Ebola virus in Guinea, the first outbreak in West Africa since a 2013-2016 epidemic…
