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Tanzania officially launches its immunization programm. The country has opened 550 vaccination centres in order to curb the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. The country, which is facing a third wave of the pandemic, has received a million doses of the single-jab Johnson & Johnson vaccine from the US under …

Germany announced on Monday that it will offer, as of September 1, the administration of a booster dose of Covid-19 vaccine to elderly and vulnerable populations, as well as to people who have not received a vaccine to messenger RNA. The country is following in the footsteps of Israel, which …

During her two-day visit in Rwanda, the Tanzanian president Samia Suluhu Hassan signed several agreements with Paul Kagame. In a press briefing after a 5-hour long meeting between Presidents Samia and Paul Kagame, Ministers of ICT and Communication from both countries, Faustin Ndungulile and Paula Ingabire, signed agreements on cooperation …

After 14 days of treatments in hospital in Dar es Salaam, Tanzanian Defence Minister Elias Kwandikwa died on Monday night. The MP’s secretary, Julius Lugobi, confirmed his death. Kwandikwa, 55, has become the first high-ranking official in Tanzania to die since President Samia Suluhu Hassan assumed power in March following …

Authorities in Nigeria have received from the US government, a donation of four million doses of Covid-19 vaccine. The US embassy in Nigeria says the donated vaccines are part of the “US pledge to initially provide at least 25 million of the 80 million doses globally to Africa”. Nigeria receives …

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on Monday ruled out the use of a health pass to access public places despite the Covid-19 pandemic. The requirement for such a certificate has provoked protests in European countries since its inception. “In the case of Mexico, we are not going to ask …

Hundreds of thousands of residents were confined on Monday in China in the midst of an epidemic rebound, which has seen the Delta strain spread to the four corners of the country and reach the city of Wuhan, the first affected by the Covid-19 epidemic. China has virtually eradicated the …

Malawi’s President, Lazarus Chakwera, has declared two days of national mourning in honour of 21 people killed in a horrific road accident on Sunday. They were travelling on the main road connecting the capital, Lilongwe, to the southern city of Blantyre. The 18 women and three babies were killed when …

Greece is hit by “the worst heat wave since 1987”, more than 30 years ago, warned Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, while the mercury was to reach 45 degrees Monday in some regions. Since Thursday, Greece has been going through a scorching period which is expected to peak on Monday and …

They are more than 700 migrants to have been picked up by rescue ships in the Mediterranean Sea off the coasts of Libya and Malta this weekend. About 400 were rescued from a vessel that was taking in water in the central Mediterranean, a further 100 were picked up off …