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In Kenya, civil servants have been given 13 days to be vaccinated against Covid or face unspecified disciplinary measures.The public service minister said he made the decision due to the low participation of civil servants in the vaccination. In a statement, the head of public service said the order was …

After failing to deliver 3.4 million doses of Russia’s Sputnik V Covid vaccine, a UAE firm linked to a member of the country’s royal family has agreed to refund about $2m to Ghana’s health ministry, local media outlets report. The doses were to be supplied by end of June, but …

Government in Nigeria says it has invoked labour laws to stop the salaries of doctors who started an indefinite strike last week. The Minister of Labour and Employment Chris Ngige accused the doctors of playing with people’s lives. According to the minister it was unfair that they were being paid …

Nigerian police say a Swiss national and another person have been kidnapped in the south-west of the country. They were intercepted on a road in Ogun state as they were making their way from a farm. Police said two of the kidnappers were killed. Read also: COVID-19: the French demonstrate …

After the validation Thursday by the Constitutional Council of the main part of the law which will extend from Monday the health pass to new public places, as well as an obligation of vaccination for caregivers, the French decide to demonstrate Saturday throughout the France. About 140 events are planned …

CNN announced that three employees had been sacked for violating the channel’s health policy. They had come to work without having been vaccinated against Covid-19. The boss of the channel reaffirmed the policy of “zero tolerance” in health matters. In an internal memo emailed to staff, leaked to several US …

Despite the World Health Organization’s (WHO) call for a moratorium, the Israeli government on Thursday continued to administer third doses of the anti-covid vaccine to people aged 60 and over. President Isaac Herzog, opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu and Prime Minister Nafatli Bennett’s mother received this third dose, a booster shot …

The African Union has started the distribution of 400 million Covid vaccines to member states, its chairman, South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced. Several countries will receive the first of the monthly shipments on Thursday. The AU’s aim is to deliver 25 million vaccines a month by January. Member …

Due to attacks by militant group Boko Haram that forced farmers to leave their land, an estimated 4.4 million people in northeast Nigeria could face acute hunger, the UN said. Farmers have been targeted in the insurgency and the army has been carrying out operations against militants. The area has …

After clashes on Monday between protesting students and police, authorities ruled that undergraduate classes at the University of Liberia be suspended indefinitely. The students were protesting against the university’s decision to cancel in-person classes for online classes, a move they said would curb the spread of coronavirus. But the students …