Africa

Covid vaccinations in Africa: Kenya, Nigeria, and Rwanda have started their national Covid-19 vaccination plans with serums acquired through the Covax initiative.

Africa, fight against Covid. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director of the World Health Organisation: "Some of the western countries with the best health infrastructure have been hard hit, while several African countries have been able to…

Covid vaccine, the plane carrying more than 1.7 million doses of the anti-Covid vaccine produced by the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, through the Covax mechanisms, has landed in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo.

Polio vaccination in South Sudan: the Ministry of Health and international partners have launched the second round of the polio vaccination campaign targeting more than 2.8 million children in South Sudan.

Covid in Africa: Senegal will share some 20,000 doses of its Covid-19 vaccine with the neighboring Gambia and Guinea Bissau in what the health minister called a gesture of African solidarity.

Covid vaccine, the COVAX distribution mechanism begins in Africa and Ghana: in a joint statement, the WHO and the United Nations Children's Fund, Unicef, described the delivery of the vaccines to Ghana as "an epoch-making moment".

Rwandan rebels are under indictment: four people were kidnapped in the ambush, one of whom was later found. Three victims: the ambassador, the carabiniere and the driver. The position of the spokesman for the Forces Democratiques de…

D.R. Congo, Italian ambassador Luca Attanasio was travelling aboard a convoy of the UN mission Monusco

Ethiopia, dramatic situation in Tigray: "people are dying of hunger. Within two months, thousands of people will have lost their lives": this is the alarm launched by the president of the Ethiopian Red Cross (Ercs).

South African variant, Astrazeneca 'ineffective': the study conducted by the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg is the reason for the government's step back.