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A former health minister in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Dr Eteni Longondo, has been freed after spending 17 nights in Kinshasa’s main prison. The former minister was released on bail on Tuesday, according to his lawyer, Hugues Pulusi Eta.…
Daily COVID-19 deaths and infections in Africa slightly swelled on Wednesday, according to an update by the Africa CDC. With 605 more deaths, the death toll reached 200,741, while 17,441 new infections pushed the number of total cases to 7.95…
Mozambique has been urged to investigate fresh claims that women have been coerced into giving sex or money to receive food aid in regions hit by a four-year insurgency. A researcher for Human Rights Watch says local officials in the northern province of…
Egypt said Wednesday it plans to manufacture one billion doses a year of China's Sinovac vaccine, claiming it would become the Middle East and Africa's "biggest vaccine producer". Under the deal with the Chinese pharmaceutical company, a factory in Cairo…
Latest figures by the Africa CDC have revealed that COVID-19 claimed at least 663 more lives across Africa on Monday. With the continent lagging far behind in vaccination efforts, there are concerns that this figure may rise in the coming…
Zambia's newly-elected President Hakainde Hichilema on yesterday appointed new military chiefs and replaced all police commissioners after promising to end the previous regime's heavy-handedness. Right groups accused former president Edgar Lungu of leading a "brutal crackdown" on dissent, with police…
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Monday said that an illegal migrant died while 14 others remain missing off the Libyan coast. Atiewin Mbillah completes the story.
The South African government on Wednesday said it had allocated US$1.5 billion towards the fight against gender-based violence (GBV) and femicide. The Government also appealed to men to help end the scourge in the country. This follows the recent murders of…
Tanzania's president on Wednesday said five people are dead, including three police officers, after a gun battle with an armed man near the French Embassy in Dar es Salaam. It was not immediately clear whether the shootout in the heavily…
The UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, warned on Tuesday that a resurgence of Bubonic plague in Ituri province in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is putting young lives at risk. A new research supported by the agency revealed…
At least 18 people including 9 civilians, one soldier and 8 rebels, were killed during fighting between the army and rebels known as the Allied Democratic Forces ADF. Officials said the fight occurred on Thursday and Friday in Katanda and…
A former presidential candidate and opponent of Central African Republic President has fled the country despite a travel ban slapped on him by the authorities. Abdoul Karim Meckassoua was removed recently as a member of the national assembly after being…
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