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Macky Sall, president of Senegal has taken his Covid-19 jab live on television. The West African state has inoculated more than 4,000 people since it launched its vaccination campaign two days ago, following the arrival of 200,000 doses of China’s Sinopharm vaccine. Macky Sall last week, said the government bought …

As reported by the state news agency , Algeria has received 200,000 doses of the Sinopharm vaccine donated by China. Read also: Eight found dead in Liberia flat after party The North African state launched its vaccination campaign in January, with 50,000 doses of Russia’s Sputnik V, and has since …

A young woman is among eight people found dead in an apartment in Liberia’s capital Monrovia, following a party on Wednesday night to celebration her graduation from university. There were scenes of wailing as hundreds of people gathered outside the apartment block in Paynesville suburb after the bodies including that …

Ghana will begin its vaccination programm on March 2 with the 600,000 COVAX vaccines delivered to the country on Wednesday, February 24. The Ghanean minister of information Kojo Oppong Nkrumah issued a press statement yesterday, telling exactly how this would be done and those who would be taking the jabs …

A Tanzanian court has acquitted an opposition MP who had been charged with insulting President John Magufuli. The court said it did not find any evidence to support the charge against Halima Mdee. She was charged in 2017 for reportedly saying in Swahili that “the president is talking aimlessly, he …

They are in total nine to be arrested bythe police in cameroon for practicing homosexuality. According to a police officer and a lawyer, two of them are still in custody. An officer in the town of Bafoussam, where the nine men were arrested said: “we arrested them to check if …

Ugandan government spokesman Ofwono Opondo affirmes that the United States should “fix their own elections” rather than “lecture” Uganda about its elections. His comments came after the US said it was considering “targeted options” following elections in Uganda that were marred by “irregularities” and “abuses” by the security forces. In …

European Union leaders will meet on Thursday to try to speed up the production and rollout of COVID-19 vaccines in a race against the emergence of new variants that some fear could bring a third wave of the pandemic across the continent. They will also consider how to strike the …

Guinea is continuing its fight against the deadly Ebola disease with its mass vaccination campaign that started on Tuesday. It comes after the latest outbreak this month which killed five people in the southeastern region of Nzérékoré. The World Health Organization has sent 11,000 vaccines to Guinea this week and …

Zimbabwe is set to receive a further 800,000 doses of the Covid-19 jab from China, indicating the “excellent relationship” between the two nations and the Asian giant’s willingness to give the southern African state “preferential treatment” amidst a global “stampede” for vaccines. The announcement was done by the Zimbabwean presidential …