By CGTN Africa Kenya’s ministry of health announced Monday that 1,223 people tested positive for COVID-19 pushing the cumulative total of COVID cases to 299,732. According to the ministry, the 1,223 people that tested positive came from a sample size of 4,003 tested in the last 24 hours. At the same time, the ministry announced that…
By XINHUA South African tourism is showing signs of recovery with the coastal city of Durban having 80 percent occupancy at establishments and more than 200,000 visitors during the festive season, said Mxolisi Kaunda, the mayor on Sunday. “We desperately needed this development because we were bruised by the pandemic and multitudes of our people lost…
By XINHUA Zambia has developed a COVID-19 resurgence plan aimed at accelerating the fight against the pandemic. Sylvia Masebo, the Minister of Health, said the resurgence plan, which will soon be released, will help consolidate the country’s national response to COVID-19 in a multisectoral approach. “I, therefore, urge all our partners and well-wishers to align their…
By XINHUA Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan said on Friday night that 1.4 million tourists visited the east African nation in 2021 amid the COVID-19 pandemic that hugely affected the tourism industry. In her message to bid farewell to 2021 and welcome the New Year, President Hassan said only 620,867 tourists visited the country in 2020,…
By XINHUA Egypt’s exports in 2021 registered a record high of about 31 billion US dollars, Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouli announced on Sunday. During a ministerial meeting, Madbouli said the government introduced a refund program to ease export burdens, which contributed significantly to the growth of exports. Madbouli said the government has been supporting domestic…
By XINHUA The revenues of Egypt’s Suez Canal reached 6.3 billion U.S. dollars in 2021, the highest in the canal’s history, Chairman of the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) Osama Rabie said on Sunday. The waterway has also registered the largest annual net tonnages of 1.27 billion tons in 2021, compared to 1.17 billion tons in 2020,…
By AFP The Senegalese football federation (FSF) on Sunday accused Premier League side Watford of preventing forward Ismaila Sarr from playing in the upcoming Africa Cup of Nations. The FSF claimed Watford had displayed “disrespectful, pernicious and discriminatory behavior”. Sarr is currently sidelined with a knee injury and has not featured for Watford since November. “The…
By CGTN Africa The Zimbabwean government has resolved to postpone the reopening of schools due to spiking COVID-19 cases. In his New Year address, President Mnangagwa said that the schools were supposed to reopen on January 10, 2022, but only examination classes will be allowed to reopen on January 10. “In the last three days, we…
By XINHUA Rwanda is among the few countries in Africa that have achieved the World Health Organization (WHO) target of vaccinating 40 percent of the entire population by December 2021. According to the Rwandan Ministry of Health, as of December 31, 2021, a total of 7,587,808 of the targeted Rwandan population aged 12 and above, have…
By XINHUA Kenya’s economy grew by 9.9 percent in the three months to September 30, compared to 10.1 percent in the second quarter of 2021, the government statistics agency said on Friday. Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) said that the economic recovery from the effects of COVID-19 pandemic continued in the third quarter as a…
