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2021-06-26 15:12:06 Africa: Covid-19 Death Toll Reaches 140,000 Across Continent
‍[allAfrica] As of June 26, confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached 5,350,331 while over 32,500,561 vaccinations have been administered across the continent.
Reported deaths in Africa reached 140,173 and 4,664,266 people have recovered. South Africa has the most reported cases 1,895,905  and 59,621 people died. Other most-affected countries are Morocco (528,731), Tunisia (398,829), Egypt (279,596), Ethiopia (275,601), Libya (192,129) and Kenya (181,885).
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2021-06-26 13:39:05 Uganda President Calls for Prayers As Uganda's Covid-19 Cases Rise
‍[DW] Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has called for a day of prayers as coronavirus cases soar. He has imposed a stricter lockdown and shut down the country's parliament. But many are wondering if these measures are enough.
Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has declared Friday, June 25, a public holiday for the nation to pray to God to reverse the COVID situation. This comes after an unprecedented surge in COVID-19 cases in the East African Nation. In the last three days, 126 people have succumbed to the vir
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2021-06-26 13:36:06 Mozambique Investigates Sexual Exploitation of Women Inmates
‍[HRW] Expand Commission of Inquiry's Mandate to Prisons Across the Country
This week, Mozambique's government appointed members of a commission of inquiry to investigate allegations of sexual exploitation and other rights violations of female inmates by guards at the Ndlavela Women's Prison in Maputo. Minister of Justice Helena Kida also announced the suspension of the prison's entire management. But government measures need to go further to ensure accountability for those responsible, provide reparations, and d
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2021-06-26 13:33:05 Senegal to Move All Govt Data to Huawei-Run Data Center
‍[RFI] Senegal will move all government data and digital platforms from foreign servers to a new national data centre in an effort to strengthen its digital sovereignty. The move risks making the African country's digital infrastructure fully dependent on Chinese technology.
"I'm instructing the government from henceforth to migrate all state data and platforms to the data centre. We have to rapidly repatriate all national data hosted out of the country," Senegal's President Macky Sall said at the launch of the c
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2021-06-26 13:00:28 Ethiopia: Three Aid Workers Murdered in Ethiopia's Tigray
‍[VOA] Médecins Sans Frontières said Friday that three aid workers for the organization were found dead near their vehicle in Ethiopia's embattled Tigray region.
"No words can truly convey all our sadness, shock and outrage against this horrific attack," the medical charity said in a statement. "Nor can words soothe the loss and suffering of their families and loved ones, to whom we relay our deepest sympathy and condolences."
MSF said they lost contact with the staffers Thursday, and Friday morning
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2021-06-26 12:45:21 Ethiopia - Deadly Tigray Airstrike Further Alienates Western Allies
‍[DW] As vote counting continues in Ethiopia, there's growing condemnation of a military airstrike on a marketplace in war-torn Tigray. The EU is demanding an independent probe and aid workers are calling for more protection.
Eyewitnesses are adding more details to what started as a rumor about one or more explosions with dozens of civilian casualties in the village of Togoga in Ethiopia's restive Tigray region. "When the military jets bombed our area, many of us fell to the ground," Negasi Berha, a Tigray resid
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2021-06-26 12:27:05 Nigeria: Prevention, Only 'Sustainable Solution' to Conflict, Deputy UN Chief Tells Nigerian Law Students
‍[UN News] Speaking in Nigeria, the UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed has emphasized the importance of prevention as "the only real, sustainable solution" to resolving the challenges thrown up by conflict.
Prevention will help us "flatten the curve" of conflict, and thus create space for our conflict management tools, which are currently often overwhelmed", she said on Thursday, in a lecture delivered at Baze University, in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, entitled: The Use of Ceasefire Agreements In Avoiding Es
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2021-06-26 10:45:20 South Africa: Is South African President Tripping Over a TRIPS Waiver?
‍[ISS] Can a TRIPS waiver save Africa from the Covid-19 pandemic? South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa seems to think so. He has invested considerable political and diplomatic capital in the project.
TRIPS - the World Trade Organization's Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights - protects manufacturers' patents against copying. South Africa and India have been campaigning hard since last October for a TRIPS waiver on the manufacture of COVID-19 vaccines.
They say the compulsory susp
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2021-06-26 10:24:06 Africa: WHO Says Africa Experiencing Third Wave of Covid-19 Infections
‍[VOA] "Africa Is Facing a Fastsurging third wave of COVID-19 pandemic, with cases spreading more rapidly and projected to soon overtake the peak of the second wave the continent witnessed at the start of 2021," according to the World Health Organization's regional office in Africa.
WHO said in a statement the pandemic is resurging in 12 African countries. Meanwhile, the highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus, first identified in India, has been detected in 14 African countries.
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2021-06-26 10:21:05 Cote d'Ivoire: Vaccine Rollout in Cote D'Ivoire Picks Up Steam After Rough Start
‍[VOA] The first doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine arrived in Ivory Coast in late February. By March 1, the country started vaccinating people, making it the first in the world to do so through the COVAX initiative, a program co-led by the World Health Organization; Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance; the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations; and UNICEF.
"The program plays a crucial role," said Kouacou Epa, an immunization specialist with UNICEF in Ivory Coast. "We know that the vaccines are being used more in
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