AFRICA

Protest versus Africa’s 1st COVID-19 vaccine test shows fear

9:01 pm July 1, 2020

Johannesburg: Protesters against Africa’s first COVID-19 vaccine trial burned their face masks Wednesday as experts note a worrying level of resistance and misinformation around testing on the continent. Anti-vaccine sentiment in Africa is “the worst I’ve ever seen,” the CEO of the GAVI vaccine alliance, Seth Berkley, told an African Union vaccine conference last week. “In general, people in Africa […]

Ethiopian monk thought to be aged 114 survives coronavirus

11:44 pm June 27, 2020

Addis Ababa: An Ethiopian monk believed to be 114 years old has survived the coronavirus. Tilahun Woldemichael was discharged from a hospital on Thursday after almost three weeks. He received oxygen and dexamethasone, a cheap and widely available steroid that researchers in England have said reduced deaths by up to one third in severely ill hospitalised patients. […]

South Africa’s economy to see worst performance in 90 years

12:15 am June 25, 2020

Johannesburg: South Africa’s economy is expected to decline by 7.2 per cent this year, its worst performance in 90 years, as the coronavirus pandemic takes a toll on sub-Saharan Africa’s most developed country. This was revealed in an emergency budget delivered by Finance Minister Tito Mboweni on Wednesday, a day after the country’s statistics body revealed its […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

Africa’s 1st COVID-19 vaccine trial starting

11:46 pm June 23, 2020

Johannesburg: Researchers in South Africa say the first COVID-19 vaccine trial on the African continent is set to get underway on Wednesday. The University of the Witwatersrand says the vaccine developed by University of Oxford researchers is already being evaluated in a large trial in the UK and a similar trial is beginning in Brazil. The announcement came hours after South Africa reported that total […]

India, Tanzania discuss bolstering ties further

12:22 am June 13, 2020

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Tanzania President John Pombe Joseph Magufuli on Friday reviewed the bilateral relations between the two countries and discussed possibilities of further accelerating the ties. They expressed satisfaction at the growing development partnership, educational linkages, trade and investment flows between India and Tanzania, and discussed possibilities of further accelerating […]