By David Ochieng Mbewa Cameroon defeated Kenya on Sunday to win the Women’s African Volleyball Championship in the Rwandan capital city of Kigali. Cameroon triumphed by three sets to one (25-21, 25-23, 15-25, 25-23) to retain the title they won in 2019 in Cairo and in 2017 in Yaounde, when they hosted the tournament. It was…
By XINHUA Tsehay Gemechu from Ethiopia stormed to the finish line in 1:05:08 to set a new women’s record at the Copenhagen Half Marathon on Sunday. The 22-year-old cut seven seconds off the race record set by the Netherlands’ double Olympic gold medalist Sifan Hassan in 2018. Finishing in second place was fellow Ethiopian Hawi Feysa,…
By XINHUA China is a genuine partner in Ghana’s quest for development to lift itself out of poverty, Winfred Nii Okai Hammond, the newly-appointed Ghanaian ambassador to China, said Friday. During a tour of Chinese-funded infrastructure projects, the official told Xinhua that infrastructure development cooperation between the two countries and Chinese private sector investments in the…
By XINHUA Tens of hundreds of visitors to Tanzania’s first-ever women’s sports festival dubbed Tanzanite were attracted to Chinese Kung Fu featured by young Tanzanian girls. The girls aged between 10 and 14 years participated in the women’s sports festival that started on September 16 through September 18 at the Uhuru National Stadium in the commercial…
By XINHUA Egyptian archaeologists unearthed ancient tools once used in religious rituals at a temple site in Kafr el-Sheikh province north of the capital Cairo, said the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities in a statement on Saturday. The discovered objects include part of a limestone pillar in the form of goddess Hathor, a group of…
By Jerry Omondi Nigeria may end its ban on twitter in a “few more days,” more than three months after the Federal Ministry of Information and Culture suspended the social media platform from operating in the country. The announcement was made on Wednesday by Information Minister Lai Mohammed at a post-cabinet media briefing. “If the operation…
By XINHUA Rich countries should end vaccine nationalism that is to blame for a supply crunch in Africa and slowing down efforts to contain the COVID-19 pandemic in the continent, experts said at a webinar on accelerating COVID-19 vaccination in Africa on Wednesday. Michel Sidibe, the African Union’s special envoy for the African Medicines Agency, said…
By CGTN Africa The World Health Organization (WHO) has joined the Ministry of Health, the Ghana Health Service, and partners to launch the 2021 National Breastfeeding Week celebration under the theme, Protect Breastfeeding: A shared responsibility. This year’s event will focus on raising awareness and galvanizing action on protecting breastfeeding to improve public health. The week-long…
By AFP Ebola survivors can relapse and trigger outbreaks at least five years after infection, and long-term follow-up of former patients is needed to prevent devastating flare-ups, according to new research. Scientists already knew Ebola could lie dormant in survivors, who test negative because the virus is in tissue rather than circulating in the blood. But…
By Jerry Omondi South Africa has administered 15,447,034 COVID-19 vaccine doses, the highest tally recorded in Africa so far. The country ramped up its vaccinations as it seeks to contain further spread of the virus in order to fully reopen its economy. By Wednesday, the number of fully vaccinated people had reached 7,609,183. The latest data…
