By David Ochieng Mbewa The quarterfinal stage of the 2020 Africa Nations Championship (CHAN) gets underway later on Saturday as the Confederation of African Football (CAF) announced the introduction of the use of Video Assistant Referee (VAR) during the knockout phase of the competition. The first quarterfinal, where VAR will be first used in this year’s…
By Reuters The COVAX vaccine sharing platform expects to have 25 million coronavirus vaccine doses for the Eastern Mediterranean region in March, rising to 355 million doses by December, a World Health Organization (WHO) official said on Wednesday. The first doses provided for the region through COVAX will arrive in February, WHO official Yvan Hutin told…
By CGTN Africa Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Tuesday the size of the ongoing national megaprojects is a “great opportunity” and a “promising market” for foreign companies to invest in the various development domains. Sisi’s remarks were made during a meeting with Rodolphe Saade, CEO and Chairman of the CMA CGM Group’s Board of Directors, along…
By XINHUA The number of people in South Sudan in need of aid has jumped from 7.5 million last year to 8.3 million, UN humanitarians said on Tuesday. The landlocked country has a total population of just over 11 million. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) blames years of conflict, climate change,…
By AFP Air pollution is likely to increase the risk of irreversible sight loss, according to the results of a long-term study published Tuesday. Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of blindness among over-50s in richer nations, with roughly 300 million people predicted to be affected by 2040. Known risk factors include age, smoking…
By XINHUA Tropical storm Eloise which has been affecting South Africa since last weekend has claimed at least two lives, displaced more than 200 others, destroyed infrastructure and left many homeless, said government officials on Tuesday. “A five-year-old boy was swept while trying to cross a river but there was heavy current,” Sam Ngubane, head of…
By CGTN Africa South Africa is slowly beginning to dry out from heavy rains and floods associated with Cyclone Eloise. The storm hit the area this past weekend but the rain is still falling in various parts of the country with some people being evacuated, said Sipho Hlomuka, Member of the Executive Council for Cooperative Governance…
By Halligan Agade Last year, more than 180 countries temporarily closed their schools, leaving close to 1.7billion children and youth out of school when closures were at their peak. The pandemic deprived children in the poorest countries of almost four months of schooling, compared with six weeks for children in high-income countries. For an estimated 32.8…
By XINHUA Authorities in Lagos, Nigeria’s economic hub and the epicenter of COVID-19 cases, have announced plans on COVID-19 vaccine rollout and the effort to bolster mass vaccination of residents in the state. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the governor of Lagos state, made this known in a statement available to Xinhua Monday, saying the state is aiming to…
By XINHUA Schools and institutions of higher learning in Uganda will remain closed as the country grapples with a surge in COVID-19 cases, a senior government official said on Monday. Alex Kakooza, Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Education and Sports, tweeted that only candidate classes and finalists in institutions of higher learning are open. The…
