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Passengers, some wearing masks, wait for their taxi to leave the Baragwanath taxi rank in Soweto, South Africa, Thursday Dec. 2, 2021. (Photo by Jerome Delay via CFP) The number of COVID-19 cases in South Africa surpassed the 3 million mark on Friday as the country experiences …
Cameroon on Friday joined the country’s disabled community in celebrating the International Day of Persons with Disabilities with calls for greater inclusion of disabled persons in society. There are an estimated 3.5 million disabled people in Cameroon and the government was resolute to ensure their wellbeing in society, the country’s minister of social affairs, Pauline Irene Nguene said during activities to mark the day in the capital, Yaounde. “Disabled people are like any other person. We will …
A resident uses a hand washing and sanitizing station at Mbagathi Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya, on Tuesday, July 6, 2021. (Photo by Patrick Meinhardt / Bloomberg via Getty Images) Kenya’s health ministry on Friday reported 95 new COVID-19 infections from a sample size of 4,799 tests conducted …
Kenya said on Friday that 17 percent of children are unregistered during birth, complicating government efforts to plan for the provision of social services. Karanja Kibicho, principal secretary of the Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government told a forum in Nairobi that the percentage of unregistered children has reduced from the 39 percent recorded in 2017. “This scenario depicts a serious setback to the government’s efforts to effectively plan for the population in terms of …
CFP Image 46 per cent of Rwandans have already received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccines, the country’s Prime Minister Édouard Ngirente said on Friday. Ngirente made the remarks in his address to Parliament on the government’s response to the pandemic. “Since Rwanda launched the COVID-19 immunization …
