(Reuters) -South African insurer Santam on Wednesday named industry veteran Tavaziva Madzinga as its chief executive officer, replacing Lizé Lambrechts who is set to retire. Madzinga joins Santam from Kenya-listed financial services firm Britam and will take the reins in July next year. His two-decade career includes a 16-year stint at South African insurer Old …
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ACCRA (Reuters) -Ghana’s health ministry detected the country’s first cases of the Omicron COVID-19 variant on passengers who arrived at Accra international airport following sequencing carried out on Nov. 21, the head of the Ghana Health Service said on Wednesday. Officials have so far declined to specify how many positive cases were detected when the …
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KHARTOUM (Reuters) -Sudanese security forces fired tear gas as tens of thousands of protesters gathered in central Khartoum on Tuesday to oppose military rule following a coup in October. Neighbourhood resistance committees called the protests, demanding full civilian authority, casting aside an agreement last week that reinstated civilian Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok and brought the …
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By Erikas Mwisi Kambale BENI, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) -Uganda and Democratic Republic of Congo carried out joint air and artillery strikes against an Islamic State-linked militia in eastern Congo on Tuesday, both countries said, vowing to continue working together to secure the targeted area. The strikes targeted the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) militia, …
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CAIRO (Reuters) – Sudanese security forces deployed tear gas on Tuesday as tens of thousands of people protested in central Khartoum, according to Reuters witness. Protesters marched across Sudan and on the presidential palace on Tuesday, in the latest demonstration against military rule following last month’s coup. (Reporting by Khalid Abdelaziz; Writing by Yasmin Hussein; …
(Refiles to remove extraneous word in paragraph 2) By Promit Mukherjee JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South Africa’s Aspen Pharmacare took a step towards a licensing deal to package and sell Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine in Africa, announcing on Tuesday it had signed non-binding terms with subsidiaries of the U.S. drugmaker. While Aspen did not give a …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -The South African rand strengthened on Tuesday, benefiting from a weaker dollar after Moderna’s chief executive said COVID-19 vaccines are unlikely to be as effective against the Omicron variant as they have been with other types. Risk appetite took a beating across world markets but a weaker dollar saw the rand trading at …
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