By CGTN Africa The World Health Organization has reiterated its commitment to helping the Government of Ghana achieve its set target for the COVID-19 vaccine rollout by presenting 1,000 pieces of digital tablets to support the ongoing vaccination campaign. Presenting the items to the Ghana Health Service, Dr Sally-Ann Ohene, Disease Prevention and Control Officer at…
By XINHUA South Africa on Tuesday launched its Global Advocacy Program in hopes of attracting tourists from the country’s target markets and seeing increases in visitors by the festive season. The program was initiated by the Department of Tourism, South African Tourism (SA Tourism) and the Tourism Business Council of South Africa (TBCSA), following protracted damaging…
By Reuters People who received Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine will have a stronger neutralizing antibody response if they get an mRNA shot as the second dose, Axios reported on Tuesday, citing a person who has seen data collected by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). J&J has asked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration…
This year’s Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah for his body of work detailing the refugee experience and how colonialism shaped African culture. At a news conference at the Swedish Academy’s headquarters in Stockholm, Permanent Secretary Mats Helm said Gurnah received the award for “for his uncompromising and compassionate…
By XINHUA Nigeria’s southern state of Bayelsa has invited Chinese investment in agriculture to assist the state’s development plan. In a statement issued on Monday after a weekend meeting in Abuja with Cui Jianchun, the Chinese ambassador to Nigeria, the Governor of the Bayelsa state Douye Diri said the state had already identified agriculture as the…
BOSTON — Kenya’s Benson Kipruto won the pandemic-delayed Boston Marathon on Monday when the race returned from a 30-month absence with a smaller, socially distanced feel and moved from the spring for the first time in its 125-year history. Diana Kipyogei won the women’s race to complete the eighth Kenyan sweep since 2000. Although organizers put…
By XINHUA Uganda on Monday opened more vaccination centers in the capital, Kampala, in efforts to inoculate more people against COVID-19. Emmanuel Ainebyoona, spokesperson of the ministry of health, told Xinhua by telephone that the new centers would be located in taxi parks and relaxation areas. “We shall have vaccination centers at the national stadium as…
By XINHUA Six member states of the East African Community (EAC), a regional bloc, lost 92 percent revenues in the tourism sector due to the COVID-19 pandemic, said Peter Mathuki, the EAC secretary-general. Mathuki said in a statement issued Saturday night that tourist arrivals to the region fell from 6.98 million before the pandemic to 2.25…
By Jerry Omondi The number of COVID-19 infections in Africa has surpassed the 8.38 million even as the continent continues its efforts against the virus. According to the latest data from the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), 8,383,097 cases had been confirmed by Sunday afternoon, with 213,877 deaths. South Africa remains to…
By Reuters Kenya’s Ruth Chepngetich obliterated the field to win the women’s Chicago Marathon in 2:22:31 on Sunday, as Ethiopia’s Seifu Tura claimed victory in the men’s race. Chepngetich, who won gold at the 2019 world championships, went out fast, securing a 27-second lead through the first 10 kilometres and never let up, finishing a minute…
