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Hundreds of residents in Mozambique’s Buzi District are waiting at the Guara Guara administrative post to be evacuated after their houses were destroyed by Cyclone Eloise. Some residents who spoke to a local daily Noticias say they have been queuing for three days now. The National Institute for Disaster Risk …

Zimbabwe’s Foreign Minister Sibusiso Moyo is among three top government officials being buried at the Heroes Acre in the capital, Harare, after they succumbed to Covid-19. The others are Transport Minister Joel Biggie Matiza and prisons chief Paradzai Willings Zimondi. Read more: Ghana: former president Jerry Rawlings to be buried …

Ghana’s longest-serving leader, former President Jerry John Rawlings, will be buried on Wednesday. His body has been lying in state since Monday and hundreds of people have taken the opportunity to pay their last respects. The funeral rituals are taking place with strict enforcement of coronavirus restrictions. Rawlings died on …

The army in Mali says it has killed 100 jihadists in a joint offensive with French forces. In a statement, Mali’s military said another 20 Islamists were captured in the operation, which ran throughout January. Militants control large parts of the Sahel desert region. Since an Islamist insurgency erupted in …

Morocco is set to become the latest country in Africa, after Egypt, to roll out a vaccination programme against Covid-19. Morocco was hit hard last year when it recorded a higher number of cases compared to its neighbours. Health officials say frontline medical staff will have priority. The country has …

Seychelles’ beaches may not be teeming with visitors now but the country’s hotel owners are getting ready. The Indian Ocean archipelago, whose economy is dependent on tourism, this month began welcoming people who have received the Covid-19 vaccine to visit. Hotel director Terry Sandapin does not expect business to go …

The Democratic Republic of Congo’s President Félix Tshisekedi has appointed a new chief of staff to replace Vital Kamerhe who is in jail. Guylain Nyembo‘s appointment was made public on Monday evening on national television RTNC. A graduate in economics, Mr Nyembo was the deputy chief of staff in charge …

On Monday, the American laboratory ModernaTherapeutics, claimed that its vaccine would protect against the British and South African variants. Stephane Bancel, CEO of Moderna added that this announcement would not have been made without excessive caution and without a battery of preliminary tests having been carried out in the laboratory. …

The South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa, has condemned so-called vaccine nationalism by the world’s wealthiest countries. Addressing the World Economic Forum online, he said some governments had ordered far more coronavirus vaccines than they needed. Without naming any countries, he appealed to them to release surplus stocks so that others …

The Malagasy civil society wants to know why the country still refuse to join the global and free vaccination project. According to RFI the French International Radio, most of the inhabitants of the isle seem to be totally unaware of the existence of a vaccine developed to fight this pandemic. …