Category: Africa

26 DECEMBER 2021 Capital FM (Nairobi) By Laban Wanambisi Nairobi — Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe has announced that all public and private vaccination centres will remain open until late during the entire festive period. He made the announcement Sunday when also acknowledged that the country is well on its way to achieving the vaccination…

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26 DECEMBER 2021 Dalsan Radio (Mogadishu) Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo has called for a consultative meeting which will be attended by Federal government councils, regional governments and the Banadir region to correct the directions of the elections. In a statement issued late Saturday, the president accused Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble of “failing” to…

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26 DECEMBER 2021 GhanaToday (Accra) By Isd The government is considering a health policy that would make vaccination against COVID-19 mandatory. When this policy becomes operational, people who refuse to take the vaccine cannot access government facilities and higher-order services. The Minister for Health, Kwaku Agyemang Manu, who disclosed this at the Ministry’s press soiree…

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26 DECEMBER 2021 Deutsche Welle (Bonn) Amid a security crisis in the West African country, the government declared a mourning period of two days after a suspected militant attack claimed 41 lives. Burkina Faso on Sunday began two days of mourning after a deadly attack claimed the lives of 41 people. The government said Sunday…

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27 DECEMBER 2021UN News Service Despite the almost miraculous development of effective vaccines against COVID-19 in 2020, the virus continued to spread and mutate throughout the last year, with much of the blame placed on a lack of effective global collaboration as a key reason for the prolonged pandemic. 2021 also saw the launch of…

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27 DECEMBER 2021 Sahara Press Service (El Aaiun) Shahid Hafed — The Association of the Families of Sahrawi Prisoners and Disappeared and the Committee of the Mothers of the 15 Sahrawi abductees, has called in a joint statement, the United Nations to put pressure on the regime of the Moroccan occupier, in order to reveal the…

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27 DECEMBER 2021 The Herald (Harare) By Fungai Lupande The Government will set up a Biobank where DNA samples for all exhumed victims will be kept for future matching with potential relatives for easy identification. This will happen when the new policy on the management of post conflict mass graves and human remains is passed….

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27 DECEMBER 2021 The Herald (Harare) Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority’s (ZimParks) quest for digital conservation received a major boost with a donation of modern technologies from a local company. It is expected that a modern first protocol on receiving and assessing live ground pangolin that was donated by the Tikki Hywood foundation will…

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27 DECEMBER 2021The Herald (Harare)By Bulawayo Bureau Police have announced that churches and other religious organisations’ traditional night vigils and crossover services have been banned. Zimbabwe is under Level Two lockdown and the Government has revised curfew hours, which are now between 9pm and 6am. Some churches have been advertising all-night prayer meetings, cross-over sermons…

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