By XINHUA Chinese Ambassador to Botswana Wang Xuefeng announced Saturday that China will donate two million doses of the Sinovac vaccine to Botswana in 2022. “We hope that this new batch of donations will further help the Botswana government with its national vaccination deployment plan, including the booster dosing schedule,” Wang said in a video message…
By XINHUA Cameroon expects the economy to grow steadily in 2022, as domestic demand rebounds, but it would continue to provide fiscal stimulus to help accelerate the pace of the recovery, according to the country’s President Paul Biya. “We have reason to be optimistic about economic recovery and an uptick in our growth rate to 4.2…
By CGTN Africa Uganda records 1,809 more cases of COVID-19 with four more deaths from the virus, the ministry of health announced Thursday. Cases in the East African nation have risen to 139,079 since March last year when the first case was confirmed. The new cases recorded were out of 8,313 tests done on December 28,…
By AFP The world hit a record number of COVID-19 infections in a week, an AFP tally revealed Wednesday, as the World Health Organization (WHO) warned that Omicron poses a “very high” risk and could yet overwhelm healthcare systems. The highly transmissible variant has seen case records in multiple countries and registered infections were up 37…
By XINHUA Angola’s minister of health expressed concern over an average infection rate of 25 percent for COVID-19 following the launch of a mass testing campaign earlier this week. Health Minister Silvia Lutucuta made the statement on Tuesday as Angola started mass testing a day earlier in some key spots of Luanda to assess the current…
By Halligan Agade Special children need special attention. But in some communities, having a special child is considered a curse due to the stigma associated with it. This has seen these children become disadvantaged because some are hidden away from the public and they also miss out on education opportunities. Having seen and experienced this, Gladys…
Cape Town [South Africa]/Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], December 18 (ANI/BusinessWire India): Senator, Dr Rasha Kelej, an African woman to hold the position of the first CEO to Merck Foundation. She is also Senator at the Egyptian Senate, a strong crusader for transforming patient care in Africa and developing countries, a passionate advocate of women’s rights and…
By XINHUA Egyptian researchers have “digitally unwrapped” the mummy of King Amenhotep I for the first time, revealing many secrets about the pharaoh who ruled Egypt from 1525 to 1504 BC, a renowned Egyptologist said on Tuesday. Researchers used advanced x-ray technology, computed tomography (CT) scanning and advanced computer software programs to digitally remove the wrappings…
By CGTN Africa South Africa said Tuesday it would reinstate efforts to trace the contacts of people infected with coronavirus after a backlash over plans to scrap the measure. The health authorities last week said they would stop contact tracing everywhere except places like prisons and schools, as they believed most of the population had already…
By XINHUA Zambia on Tuesday launched a strategy and investment guide aimed at promoting domestic tourism. The launch of the Zambia Tourism Domestic Strategy and Investment Guide was aimed at implementing homegrown solutions to keep the sector afloat amid the COVID-19 pandemic that has disrupted international travels. It was also meant to draw local participation in…
