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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 …

Emmanuel Macron the French president said that Europe and the United States should urgently allocate 3% to 5% of their coronavirus vaccine supplies to developing countries where vaccination campaigns have scarcely begun. In an interview granted to the UK-based Financial Times newspaper, he said some African nations were having to …

Gen David Muhoozi, Uganda’s army chief says the beating of journalists by military was neither sanctioned nor justified, and promise the army would pay their medical bills. The incident occurred outside the UN Human Rights office where the opposition MP and musician Bobi Wine was delivering a petition over human …

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said Moscow is ready to sever ties with the European Union if the bloc hits it with painful economic sanctions, according to extracts of an interview posted on the ministry’s website on Friday. Relations between Russia and the West have come under renewed pressure …

Yoweri Museveni, the Ugandan president has ordered the suspension of a multi-million dollar fund set up by donor countries, after complaining that it is run by foreigners and undermines Uganda’s sovereignty. Mr Museveni in a letter, ordered the police to investigate how the finance ministry had allowed foreign donors to …

The German government accepted to ban all travel from high-risk countries, including South Africa, the United Kingdom, Portugal and Brazil. The restrictions are due to be signed on Friday and could come into force as early as Saturday, according to Spiegel magazine. Germany’s Interior Minister Horst Seehofer announced this ahead …