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Chinese pharmaceutical company Sinovac Biotech last Friday launched the Phase III clinical trial of its Covid-19 vaccine on a group of children and teenagers between six months and 17 years old in South Africa.
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Guinea’s ruling military came under diplomatic pressure last Friday as the African Union suspended the country over the September 5 coup, and West African envoys arrived to mediate in the crisis.
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The bail hearing for a 42-year-old Zimbabwean woman, who in 2015 allegedly killed her husband during a domestic dispute has been postponed to September 21 at the Mogwase Magistrate Court in North West, South Africa.
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Palestine has condemned the Israel occupation authority’s acts of collective punishment through brutal raids and attacks towards Palestinian detainees and their family members after six detainees escaped from Israeli high security Gilboa jail.
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The Inspector General of Zambian Police, Lemmy Kajoba, has disclosed that secret agents will soon be deployed in various points of duty to monitor erring police officers.
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A collaborative project in Botswana is getting essential and emergency healthcare products to remote communities quickly by using drones.
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Rich nations would do better to send vaccines to Africa to help fight the global Covid-19 pandemic rather than hoarding them for third-dose booster shots that scientific evidence does not back, the African Union’s (AU) top health official said yesterday.
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In a first for South Africa, Sinovac will start phase three clinical trials of a Covid-19 vaccine for children from today.
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Kenya’s demand for medical oxygen has hit critical levels with growing numbers of seriously ill Covid-19 patients due to the delta variant of the coronavirus.
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Africa is now in the grip of a health crisis emanating from the different Covid -19 variants being reported by the World Health Organization. More than 16 African countries, including Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, Senegal, South Africa and Tunisia, are recording increases in new cases.
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The Zimbabwean embassy in South Africa is now looking at the circumstances around the assault of a Zimbabwean cross-border bus driver by three police officers on Thursday last week at the toll gate just before Pretoria, allegedly when the driver refused to pay a R2 000 bribe.
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BEIJING. – African countries, with the lowest vaccination rates compared with others, are gearing up to catch up, hoping to realize herd immunity.
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LUSAKA. – The newly elected Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema, will address over 1000 global businesses and investors at Invest Africa ’s flagship event, The Africa Debate, on 15th September.
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A Zimbabwean cross-border bus driver was on Thursday last week allegedly brutally assaulted by South African traffic police in the Hammanskraal area after refusing to pay R2000 after being accused for committing a road traffic offence along the N1 highway.
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Local communities in and around protected and conserved areas in Africa are set to benefit from a US$20 million facility to boost their recovery from the impacts of COVID-19 on people and nature under an International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and Germany programme.