Fr Kitima said the church was not allowed to test for Covid-19 at its 500 health centres/TEC Sixty nuns and 25 priests have died in Tanzania in the last two months after showing symptoms of coronavirus, the Catholic Church in the East African nation says. The church, which has been
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Soldiers have been urged to adhere to public health measures Image caption: Soldiers have been urged to adhere to public health measures The South Sudanese military has announced the death of three generals who died after becoming ill with Covid-19. It identified the three as David Manyot Barach, Elijah Alier
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Sarkozy was nicknamed the "bling-bling" president French ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy has been sentenced to three years in jail, two of them suspended, for corruption. The 66-year-old was found guilty of trying to bribe a magistrate by offering him a prestigious job in return for information about a separate criminal case
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Eradicating rural poverty has been a key initiative of Xi Jinping's eight-year tenure Chinese President Xi Jinping says his country has achieved the "miracle" of eradicating extreme poverty. His government says that over an eight-year period, nearly 100 million people have been lifted out of poverty. Speaking at a ceremony
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US President Joe Biden has discussed the crisis in Ethiopia's Tigray region with Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta (pictured) in a phone call on Thursday, the White House said. The two leaders discussed the "deteriorating humanitarian and human rights crises" in Tigray, according to the readout of the call. They also spoke
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Shipments of the Covax-funded Covid-19 vaccines arrived at the Kotoka International Airport in Accra/ AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES Ghana has become the first country in the world to receive Covid-19 vaccines from the World Health Organization-backed Covax initiative that promises to deliver shots to poorer nations, as health experts around the
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WHO Director General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus The World Health Organization (WHO) has listed two more versions of the AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use, giving the green light for them to be rolled out globally through the COVAX facility, set up to ensure equitable access to the drug across
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The vaccine is expected to be rolled out in Africa from next month The World Health Organization (WHO) has approved two versions of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use, clearing the way for the vaccines to be shipped to African countries through the Covax scheme. Covax is a global
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World Trade Organization (WTO) members made history today (15 February) when the General Council agreed by consensus to select Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (pictured) of Nigeria as the organization’s seventh Director-General. When she takes office on 1 March, Dr Okonjo-Iweala will become the first woman and the first African to be chosen as Director-General. Her
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Rwanda has started its first phase of vaccination against Covid-19 with the limited 1,000 doses of the Moderna vaccine administered to high-risk groups, including frontline workers. The first and primary beneficiaries of the Covid-19 jab will get it for free. The Ministry of Health says the limited initial doses were “acquired
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