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Nigeria rolled out its COVID-19 vaccination campaign in March, and has so far vaccinated more than 3.9 million people. /CFP The Chinese government on Friday donated 470,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine to Nigeria to bolster the West African country’s fight against the virus. The Chinese Ambassador to Nigeria, …
VCG The Rwandan government has ramped up COVID-19 testing amid a 10-day lockdown, as the country seeks to map out the virus prevalence. Health authorities increased the country’s mass testing capacity, breaking it down into phases. According to The East African newspaper, the first mass testing phase was undertaken …
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Friday that 113 irregular West African migrants were repatriated from Algeria this week. The IOM said in a statement the 113 migrants were mainly from Gambia, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Senegal, including 5 women, 87 men and 21 children, and they were repatriated from Algeria to their home countries through two special flights. “Thanks to a joint and coordinated effort, immigrants were …
FILE PHOTO: A man is seen fixing illegal connections from a legal power post set up by Kenya Power in Kibera Slums in Kenya’s capital Nairobi. (Photo by Donwilson Odhiambo/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Kenya plans to promote the development of mini-grids in order to achieve universal electricity access by the end of 2022, the energy …
File Photo: Scientists perform duties at the Noguchi Memorial Insitute for Medical Research of the University of Ghana in Accra, Ghana. (Photo by Ute Grabowsky/Photothek via Getty Images) Ghana’s total number of confirmed cases surpassed 100,000 on Friday, the Ghana Health Service (GHS) confirmed. According to the GHS, the West African country’s total cases stood at …
