JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Africa’s efforts to build up capacity to manufacture vaccines against COVID-19 are not designed to meet this year’s needs but are for the longer term, the head of the continent’s top public health agency said on Thursday. “The efforts that are going on on the continent now as part of the African …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Africa’s top public health agency is still talking to pharmaceutical firms Merck and Pfizer about obtaining supplies of their antiviral pills to treat COVID-19, its director said on Thursday. “We are still in discussions with both Pfizer and Merck, so there’s no new development that I can share. These discussions take long,” …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – The BA.2 sub-variant of Omicron is now the dominant COVID-19 variant in South Africa and has been detected in multiple other African countries, the head of the continent’s top public health body said on Thursday. “We have data from South Africa that the BA.2 lineage has now become the predominant variant in …
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By Elias Biryabarema KAMPALA (Reuters) – A Ugandan author who had spent nearly a month in jail after criticising President Yoweri Museveni has fled the country, the lawyer said on Wednesday. Kakwenza Rukirabashaija, an internationally acclaimed writer, was released from jail in late January after being detianed in late December for communications offences related to …
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By Khalid Abdelaziz KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Two prominent Sudanese political figures who held top positions in the civilian administration before a military takeover in October have been arrested, their Forces of Freedom and Change (FFC) coalition said in a statement on Wednesday. The arrests mark an extension of a crackdown on critics of the military …
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COTONOU (Reuters) – Five rangers and a soldier were killed and 10 others injured following an ambush by unnamed militants in a northern Benin park on Tuesday, the park’s management said in a statement on Wednesday. (Reporting by Aaron Ross; Writing by Bate Felix; Editing by Chris Reese)
By Lovasoa Rabary ANTANANARIVO (Reuters) -The death toll in Madagascar from Cyclone Batsirai rose to 92, the state disaster relief agency said on Wednesday, as information continued to filter in from areas of the country that were badly affected. The cyclone slammed into the Indian Ocean island late on Saturday, knocking down houses and electricity …
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By Stephanie van den Berg THE HAGUE (Reuters) -Judges at the International Court of Justice on Wednesday ruled that Uganda must pay $325 million in reparations to the Democratic Republic of Congo for its role in conflicts in Congo’s resource-rich Ituri province. Uganda must pay the sum in five yearly instalments of $65 million to …
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(Changes source to Reuters News) By Rachel Savage and Karin Strohecker LONDON (Reuters) -After an initial hit from the global market impact of COVID-19, oil price-dependent Angola’s fortunes have reversed, turning the tables on Africa’s perennial investor darling Ghana. Angola has ploughed ahead with ambitious reforms, spurred by sovereign credit rating downgrades and tumbling bonds …
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The Hague (Reuters) – The International Court of Justice on Wednesday ordered Uganda to pay $325 million in reparations to the Democratic Republic of Congo for Kampala’s role in conflicts in Congo’s resource-rich Ituri province. Rulings of the ICJ, the United Nations’ highest court that deals with disputes between states, are final and cannot be …
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