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FILE PHOTO: President of South Africa Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa. (Photo by Thierry Monasse/Getty Images) South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Sunday announced that the country was adjusting its COVID-19 situation from Level 3 to Level 1 as from midnight. Ramaphosa said that the cabinet had decided earlier today to downgrade the …
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At least 15 Africans drowned when their boat capsized Sunday off Libya, a U.N. spokeswoman said, the second shipwreck involving migrants seeking a better life in Europe in just over a week.
Safa Msehli, a spokesman for the International Organization for Migration, …
FILE PHOTO: In this photo illustration a Johnson & Johnson logo is seen in front of a medical syringe and a vial with coronavirus vaccine. (Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) A single-shot COVID-19 vaccine by US drugmaker Johnson and Johnson is likely to be approved for use in the European Union …
FILE PHOTO: Migrants crowded together on the deck of a rescue ship off the Libyan coast. (Getty Images) Almost 100 migrants were rescued off Libya’s west coast on Sunday as they made failed attempts to reach Europe, while around 20 were missing, AFP reporters and the coastguard said. People traffickers have thrived amid the lawlessness that …
People wait to take the COVID-19 test in Johannesburg, South Africa. (Xinhua/Chen Cheng) The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases on the African continent reached 3,888,006 as of Sunday afternoon, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said. According to the continental disease control and prevention agency’s …
