By CGTN Africa According to the UN, more than 20,000 people are homeless and 40 still missing in the aftermath of Saturday evening’s eruption that unleashed rivers of lava flowing towards Goma in eastern DR Congo, At least 31 people were killed while thousands were forced thousands to flee as the lava destroyed more than 3,000…
By XINHUA African countries have conducted over 46.9 million COVID-19 tests so far, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said Wednesday. The Africa CDC, a specialized healthcare agency of the African Union (AU), said some 930,026 COVID-19 tests were conducted by African countries during the past week, registering a 20 percent increase…
By Reuters Gold prices retreated from a four-and-a-half-month high on Thursday, hurt by an uptick in the US dollar and bond yields, while investors awaited key economic readings out of the U.S. this week. Spot gold was down 0.1% at $1,894.88/oz by 2:35 am GMT, after hitting its highest level since January 8 at $1,912.50 on…
By XINHUA Hospitals and clinics in Zimbabwe’s second largest city of Bulawayo are now only inoculating people seeking their second dose of COVID-19 vaccines due to shortages, an official said Wednesday. Bulawayo Provincial Medical Director Welcome Mlilo confirmed the development, which he attributed to an increase in the number of people seeking the vaccines. Mlilo said…
By AFP Two major cracks appeared on the ground in the eastern DR Congo city of Goma on Tuesday as powerful aftershocks from the Mount Nyiragongo volcano shook the area, an AFP reporter saw. Cracks, measuring up to several hundred meters (yards) long and several dozen centimeters (roughly two feet) across in places, opened up as the city was hit…
By XINHUA Uganda’s ministry of health on Tuesday said the east African country has registered 155 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections to 44,074. Out of the 2,428 samples tested on Sunday, 155 contacts and alert cases, 119 of them in the capital, Kampala, turned positive for the novel coronavirus, the ministry…
By David Ochieng Mbewa The Confederation of African Football called for an investigation into an incident in which referees were physically assaulted following the conclusion of the Confederation Cup quarterfinal between Senegal’s Jaraaf and Coton Sport of Cameroon. Jaraaf won the match in Dakar 2-1 but the Cameroonian side, which won the first leg 1-0, advanced…
By AFP South Sudan will return 72,000 doses of donated COVID-19 vaccines after concluding the country cannot administer the jabs before they expire, a health ministry official told AFP on Tuesday. The country received 132,000 doses of the Oxford/Astrazeneca vaccine in late March from Covax, the global initiative to ensure lower-income countries receive jabs, but so…
By XINHUA A series of earthquakes on the border of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda have stoked fears that the Nyiragongo volcano close to the area would erupt again three days after the first eruption. The volcano started to erupt on Saturday, spewing lava that headed towards the border with Rwanda, and stopped…
By XINHUA The death toll linked to the eruption of Mount Nyiragongo volcano on Saturday in the northeastern province of North Kivu of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has risen to 32 and is likely to further rise, the DRC authorities said Monday. Among the victims, nine were burned to death when lava hit…
