By XINHUA African countries should enhance the security of online commerce platforms amid risk of attack by cyber criminals, an executive said on Tuesday. Ebrima Fatty, chief executive officer of Africa Sokoni, a Kenyan-based e-commerce platform said strengthening cyber defenses is key to ensure that online trading is safe and seamless in the continent. “With the…
By David Ochieng Mbewa The fixture list and schedule for Pakistan Women’s limited-overs tour of South Africa was confirmed by Cricket South Africa (CSA) on Monday. The tour, which will begin on January 20, features three ODIs and as many T20s with all matches confirmed as day matches due to the current curfew in force across…
By CGTN Africa South Africa reported 755 coronavirus deaths in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of fatalities to 34,334, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize announced late Tuesday. According to Mkhize, 13,105 new infections were also detected, pushing the country’s total number of confirmed cases to 1,259,748. The country’s economic hub of Gauteng, which includes…
By CGTN Africa The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases on the African continent reached 3,107,979 as of Wednesday, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said. According to the continental disease control and prevention agency’s COVID-19 dashboard, the death toll related to the pandemic stood at 74,444 as of Wednesday morning. A total…
By AP The African Union has secured close to 300 million COVID-19 vaccine doses in the largest such agreement yet for Africa, a continental official said Tuesday. Nicaise Ndembi, Senior Science Adviser for the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told The Associated Press in an interview that the current AU chair, South African President…
By David Ochieng Mbewa South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday announced the country will remain on adjusted alert level 3, meaning most of the measures that were announced in late December last year will remain in place. While the nationwide curfew remains in place, it will be shortened and will now be effective from 9pm…
By XINHUA The government of Burundi on Monday launched a second nationwide mass screening campaign of COVID-19, as the coronavirus cases have been increasing in recent days. The 30-day campaign is taking place in the commercial capital Bujumbura and several provinces where cases have been reported. Burundian Minister of Public Health and the Fight Against AIDS…
By XINHUA The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on Monday said its anti-desert locust operation will continue in all affected countries in East Africa amid swarms invasion in Kenya. FAO said that immature swarms continue to migrate southwards from breeding areas in eastern Ethiopia and central Somalia to southern Ethiopia and northern Kenya amid reports that…
By David Ochieng Mbewa Nigeria’s Rivers United F.C. and South Africa’s Bloemfontein Celtic will play their rearranged Confederation Cup second preliminary round second leg fixture on the weekend of January 22-24, the South African Football Association (SAFA) confirmed. The game was initially due to be played on January 6 in Port Harcourt but did not take…
By CGTN Africa A global emergency stockpile of 500,000 Ebola vaccine doses will be created to respond quickly to future outbreaks. The International Coordinating Group (ICG) on Vaccine Provision, which includes the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) all came together to help…
