BLANTYRE, MALAWI – Malawi president Lazarus Chakwera has urged southern African leaders to increase efforts to combat the coronavirus pandemic and called on wealthy nations to stop hoarding vaccine.The Malawi leader was speaking at the annual summit of…
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People at Risk of Ebola in Ivory Coast Get Vaccinated
GENEVA – The World Health Organization has begun giving the Ebola vaccine to high-risk people in Ivory Coast, after a woman was diagnosed with the Ebola virus in Abidjan. On Saturday, Ivory Coast declared its first case of Ebola in more than 25 years….
Rights Activists Skeptical of Museveni’s New Concern About Torture in Uganda
Ugandan human rights activists have welcomed President Yoweri Museveni’s condemnation of torture allegedly committed by police and the armed forces. However, rights activists say they are skeptical whether Museveni will back up his words by prosecuting…
Cameroon Creates, Trains Militias Against New Terrorism Ideology
Cameroon’s President Paul Biya has sent his top military officials and a governor to reactivate old militias and create new ones to combat terrorism on the central African state’s northern border with Nigeria. The militias are, for the first time, to t…
Analysts: China Expanding Influence in Africa Via Telecom Network Deals
Telecommunications networks funded and built by China are taking over Africa’s cyberspace, a dependence that analysts suggest puts Beijing in a position to exert political influence in some of the continent’s countries.Bulelani Jili, a doctoral candida…
North Africa Fires Spread to Libya and Tunisia
CAIRO – As unusually hot weather persists over parts of Northern Africa, new forest fires reportedly have broken out in Tunisia and Libya during the past 24 hours, in addition to many that are still burning in Algeria.The presidents of Algeria and Tuni…