Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has announced that it was time to increase the price of bread. Mr Sisi said that there would not be a big jump. This increase has been a highly sensitive issue in the past. President Sisi suggested it was no longer reasonable to continue subsidising …
Read More »Senegal: police arrest a man disguised as a woman to compose in place of his girlfriend
A Senegalese university student is in trouble for disguising himself as a woman to sit his girlfriend’s school-leaving English paper. Images of the Khadim Mboup dressed in women’s clothes, including a red veil, have been shared widely on social media and news outlets in Senegal. The 22-year-old student, who was …
Read More »Tanzania launches nationwide vaccination campaign
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 …
Read More »Towards a 3rd dose of vaccine in Israel, Germany and elsewhere
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 …
Read More »Rwanda and Tanzania sign pact on ICT, health and immigration
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 …
Read More »Tanzania mourns Defense Minister Elias Kwandikwa
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 …
Read More »COVID-19: United States offers 4 million doses of vaccine to Nigeria
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 …
Read More »Mexico: Andrés Manuel Lopez not in favor of the health-pass
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 …
Read More »COVID-19: Tunisia now records more than 20,000 deaths
The coronavirus pandemic continues to claim victims in Tunisia. Authorities say they have exceeded 20,000 deaths this weekend. But indicators give hope for an improvement in the situation. With more than 100 deaths recorded every day, Tunisia has one of the highest death rates in Africa. However, this Monday, August …
Read More »COVID-19: Chinese city of Wuhan affected by Delta variant
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 …
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