By AFP Heavy rains that have lashed Niger since June have claimed 64 lives, authorities said on Saturday, as floods and landslides hit the West African country normally used to drought. In a statement read out on national television, Niger’s cabinet said 32 people had died when their buildings collapsed, and another 32 drowned. The floods…
By AFP Google on Tuesday unveiled a series of online safety measures for children including a private setting for videos uploaded by teens and safeguard for ads shown to users under 18. The new features, which come amid heightened concerns about online child exploitation and safety at a time of growing internet usage during the global…
By CGTN Africa The Ugandan government has announced that COVID-19 vaccination will resume today and that medical students will be prioritized in this third rollout of vaccines to allow for the reopening of medical schools. The resumption of vaccination comes more than a week after the government received additional donations of 586,080 doses of COVID-19 vaccines….
By AFP A Russian tourist flight from Moscow landed in an Egyptian Red Sea resort Monday for the first time since the October 2015 jihadist bombing of a Russian airliner, a civil aviation official said. Moscow barred direct flights to Egypt after the bombing of the passenger plane shortly after it took off from the popular…
By CGTN Africa South African electricity public utility, Eskom, on Monday confirmed that the Medupi power station experienced an explosion on the Unit 4 generator. According to local publication Times Live, the incident occurred at about 10.50pm on Sunday, and is suspected to have resulted in Unit 5 tripping. The utility said that no injuries have been reported…
By XINHUA Zambia on Monday launched a modern airport terminal, which has been built by a Chinese company. The southern African nation launched the second terminal building at the Kenneth Kaunda International Airport, which will increase the number of passengers from the current two million to four million per year. The project, financed by the Export-Import…
By Reuters A cholera outbreak in southern Niger has killed 12 people and infected 201 others across three regions, with heavy rains helping to further spread the disease, the country’s health minister said on Monday. Niger’s southern neighbour Nigeria is also dealing with a cholera outbreak, which has killed at least 653 people since March across…
By David Ochieng Mbewa Botswana received a further boost in its efforts to fight the coronavirus with the announcement of the expected arrival of its first-ever consignment of 108,000 doses of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine on Thursday. “This consignment will be the first of several expected, which have been purchased through the African Vaccine…
By David Ochieng Mbewa Springboks head coach Jacques Nienaber named a 43-man squad ahead of this year’s Rugby Championship following South Africa’s epic series win against the British & Irish Lions in Cape Town on Saturday. In addition to five recent call-ups, lock RG Snyman will join up with the squad next week having been out…
By XINHUA Somalia on Sunday received 108,000 additional doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to help intensify the fight against the pandemic in the country. The vaccines were donated by the French government through the COVAX Facility in continued efforts to protect Somalia’s population from COVID-19. Fawziya Abikar Nur, Somali Minister of Health and Human Services…
