AU calls on EU to recognize African COVID-19 vaccine certificates
By XINHUA A senior official of the African Union Commission Tuesday urged European Union member countries against a policy of not accepting COVID-19 vaccine certificates from the continent. Speaking at the opening of a meeting of foreign affairs ministers of the European Union and the African Union in the Rwandan capital, Kigali, Monique Nsanzabaganwa, the vice-chairperson
Somali Filmmaker Wins Top Prize at Burkina Faso Film Festival
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO — Somali filmmaker Khadar Ahmed won the top prize at the FESPACO film festival in Burkina Faso on Saturday for “The Gravedigger’s Wife,” which he wrote and directed. The 40-year-old was not at the ceremony to receive the Golden Stallion award, but his work bested 16 other African films for the top prize.
Africa fashion reception returns to Ethiopia
By CGTN Africa The Africa Fashion Reception, an annual fashion gala has returned to Ethiopia coincidingwith the African Union theme for the year “The AU Year of the Arts, Culture And Heritage: Levers for Building Africa We Want”. This 2021 edition was held at the Skylight Hotel in Addis Ababa on October 22, a year after it
South Africa’s Aspen aiming for 1.3 billion dose-per-year COVID-19 vaccine capacity by 2024
By Reuters South Africa’s Aspen Pharmacare is aiming to ramp up its COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing capacity to 1.3 billion doses a year by February 2024, up from a current annual output of around 250 million doses, the company’s CEO told Reuters on Monday. Aspen is doing the final stages of manufacturing for Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19
African Union to buy up to 110 million Moderna COVID-19 vaccine doses
By Reuters The African Union (AU) intends to buy up to 110 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine from Moderna Inc. in an arrangement brokered in part by the United States which will defer delivery of some doses intended for the U.S. to facilitate the deal, officials told Reuters. The AU’s doses will be delivered over the
WHO Acts to Prevent Repeat of Sexual Abuse, Exploitation in Congo
GENEVA — The World Health Organization has issued an action plan to address allegations that its staff and contractors engaged in widespread sexual abuse and exploitation during a recent Ebola outbreak in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. An independent commission established to investigate these allegations issued a searing report September 28. It found international staff