By XINHUA Zimbabwe’s fight against the coronavirus pandemic received a major boost when the country took delivery of another batch of Sinopharm vaccines from China on Wednesday. Another shipment of Sinopharm vaccines is also expected in the country on Thursday. Zimbabwe has to date received several batches of Sinopharm and Sinovac vaccines from China in addition…
By Reuters Zimbabwe has cleared emergency use of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine, the first western-made vaccine to be approved by the southern African nation, its medicines regulatory body said on Wednesday. Like many African countries, Zimbabwe is in the throes of a third wave of infections, with nearly half of its 101,711 cumulative cases and…
By XINHUA Angola strives to increase its diamond cutting capacities, the executive secretary of the National Kimberley Process Commission, Estanislau Buio, said on Wednesday. The country now cuts less than five percent of the diamonds it produces due to the lack of enough local diamond cutting factories, Buio said in a seminar on “Angola’s contribution in…
By David Ochieng Mbewa Africa will have two representatives in the quarterfinals of the men’s Olympic football tournament after Egypt defeated Australia in Rifu to book their place alongside Côte d’Ivoire. Ahmed Rayan and Ammar Hamdy scored in each half for a 2-0 victory that saw Egypt finish second in Group C level on four points…
By CGTN Africa Zambia has received a second batch of 151,200 doses of the Johnson and Johnson vaccine from the US as part of a dose-sharing system through the UN COVAX facility. Ministry of Health permanent secretary in charge of technical services, Kennedy Malama, said it is the second batch delivered in the space of one…
By XINHUA The Zimbabwean government said on Tuesday it will maintain the strictest level-four lockdown despite a 49.5-percent decrease in new COVID-19 infections over the past week. The number of weekly infections declined to 14,275 from 21,346, and it reflects the high efficiency of the country’s efforts to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, Information Minister Monica Mutsvangwa…
By XINHUA At least 377,599 new cases of malaria were registered in Angola’s northern Malanje province during the first half of this year, which resulted in the death of 268 people, the supervisor of the provincial program of fight against malaria, Luis Demba, said on Tuesday. Demba explained that in comparison with the same period of…
By Grace Kuria Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan has been vaccinated against COVID-19. Samia was vaccinated at State House Dar es Salaam with the Jansen Coronavirus vaccine, alongside other top government officials including Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa. She urged Tanzanians to take the jab, saying that the vaccine is safe. Following the launch, the ministry of health…
By AFP Britain said Wednesday it was offering 817,000 coronavirus vaccine doses to Kenya, as it rolls out a promised 100 million jabs for global distribution by next June. Prime Minister Boris Johnson will formally agree to the donation when he meets Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta at the UK leader’s country retreat at Chequers, northwest of…
By David Ochieng Mbewa Côte d’Ivoire progressed to the quarterfinals of the men’s Olympic football tournament knocking out Rio 2016 runners-up Germany following a 1-1 draw at Miyagi Stadium in Rifu on Wednesday. The fixture was billed as a winner-takes-all match as only one of the two sides could join Brazil in the knockout stages. Côte…
