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Ghana has become the first country to receive Covid-19 vaccines through the World Health Organization's COVAX program on Wednesday, a joint statement issued by UNICEF Ghana and WHO Ghana said.The shipment, consisting of 600,000 doses of…

Zimbabwe on Monday received its first batch of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine doses from China as the country, already struggling with a deepening economic crisis and scant health resources, geared up to begin inoculations. Wrapped in white…

Uganda’s Rugby Sevens team opened the year with drills at 5,900 ft (1,800m) in the Mount Elgon ranges in Kapchorwa, east of the capital Kampala. Training at high altitudes gives athletes an edge with increased lung capacity, increased…

Zanzibar’s first Vice President Seif Sharif Hamad, 77, who had been undergoing treatment for Covid-19 in hospital, had died, the government announced Wednesday. Husein Mwinyi, the president of the semi-autonomous island region of…

More revealing details have emerged on the 1994 Rwanda genocide linking France to the role it played by allowing main perpetrators to escape, according to Anadolu news agency. The agency revealed that a shred of new documentary evidence…

Mozambique’s health system is facing a triple threat from the coronavirus pandemic, cyclone Eloise and a large-scale outbreak in violence attributed to extremist Islamic groups in Cabo Delgado province. Almost 700 health professionals…

The Angolan cartoonist Sérgio Piçarra was awarded the Franco-German Prize for Human Rights and the Rule of Law for his commitment to the promotion of freedom of expression in Angola. It is the first time an Angolan has won the prize. …

Somalia’s deadline to pick a new president is on Monday but that’s now unlikely after negotiations between the central government and federal states collapsed over the weekend. Somali President Mohammed Abdullahi Farmajo, who is seeking…