Elton John the English singer, songwriter, pianist, and composer has not at all appreciate the last decision of the Vatican which considers same-sex union as a “sin” and says “it can’t be blessed”. The star, gay, who married his long-term partner David Furnish in 2014, claims the stance is hypocritical …
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The March parliamentary session began on Monday in Kinshasa as the Democratic Republic of Congo has been without a government for two months. Yesterday’s start of the parliamentary session comes one month after the appointment on February 15 of the new Prime Minister Jean-Michel Sama Lukonde who has yet to …
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Most African nations are pressing ahead with the rollout of the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine, despite several European countries suspending its use over concerns that that it may cause blood clots. The World Health Organization says there’s no evidence of a link but is reviewing the situation today. African countries are …
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Zimbabwe on Tuesday received a second batch of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines. It includes a Chinese donation of 200,000 doses and 144,000 doses bought by the government, and comes four weeks after the arrival of the first batch, BBC News reports. President Emmerson Mnangagwa was at the airport in the capital, …
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The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) announced Monday that agreements to produce the anti-Covid Sputnik V vaccine have been reached “with companies from Italy, Spain, France and Germany”, pending its approval in the EU. The head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), which financed the development of the Sputnik …
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Brussels is trying to fill in the gaps. After being annoyed by delays in delivery of doses of vaccines against Covid-19, the European Commission on Tuesday concluded an agreement with Pfizer and BioNTech to accelerate the delivery of 10 million doses in the second quarter, announced the executive European cited …
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Two Malian soldiers have been killed in an attack in a north-eastern region, AFP news agency quotes the army as saying. AFP added that the army statement said the assailants stormed a military post south-west of the town of Ansongo, near the borders with Burkina Faso and Niger, in an …
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Two months, is the time the American special operations forces will spend training troops in Mozambique in an attempt to prevent the spread of militant Islamist violence in the north of the country. Insurgents have staged regular attacks in the gas-rich Cabo Delgado province since 2017, leaving at least 2,500 …
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Germany, France, Italy, Slovenia, Spain, Portugal and Latvia … But not the United Kingdom. After Denmark, Norway and Iceland last week, several European countries decided on Monday to suspend the administration of the AstraZeneca vaccine. A decision taken under the precautionary principle, due to feared side effects, such as coagulation …
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As reported by BBC News, Vaccine safety experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) are meeting on Tuesday to review the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab, after several European countries halted their rollouts. There have been a number of cases in Europe of blood clots reported after the vaccine was administered. The UK …
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