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Egypt has released Al Jazeera journalist Mahmoud Hussein after more than four years in detention on accusations of publishing false news, a security source said Friday.
A November 26 letter from the presidency asked the head of Uganda's national drug authority to 'work out a mechanism' to clear the importation of the vaccines.
China has about five COVID-19 vaccine candidates at different levels of trials. It was not clear what vaccine was being imported into Uganda.
One of the frontrunners is the Sinopharm vaccine developed by the Beijing Institute of Biological Product, a unit of Sinopharm’s China National Biotec Group (CNBG).
On Wednesday, the United Arab Emirates said the vaccine has 86% efficacy, citing an interim analysis of late-stage clinical trials.
China has used the drug to vaccinate up to a million people under its emergency use program.
On Tuesday, Morocco said it was ordering up to 10 million doses of the vaccine.
Record cases
Uganda on Monday registered 701 new COVID-19 cases, the highest-ever daily increase, bringing its national count to 23,200.
The new cases were out of the 5,578 samples tested for the novel coronavirus over the past 24 hours, the country's health ministry said in a statement.
Tuesday's tally was 606, the second-highest ever number of new infections, bringing the cumulative number of confirmed cases in the east African country to 23,860.
Health authorities have blamed ongoing election campaigns which have drawn huge crowds for the rise in infections.
Egyptian mediators were expected in Gaza on Monday to try and calm tensions after a week of clashes in which Israel has launched military strikes in response to airborne incendiary devices that have ignited wildfires.
Forces loyal to Libya's UN-recognised government said Saturday they seized three barracks from fighters aligned with strongman Khalifa Haftar south of the capital, in an apparent new victory against their rival.
Gnounou, in a statement, said Haftar fighters were fleeing, but GNA forces \"continue to pursue\" them.
Saturday's announcement comes days after Ahmad al-Mesmari, a spokesman for Haftar's forces, said his fighters would pull back from some positions south of Tripoli.
Haftar's forces have suffered a series of setbacks since April when GNA fighters -- backed by Turkey, a supplier of drones and air defences -- ousted them from two western coastal cities.
And on Monday the GNA said its forces had seized a strategic airbase from the Haftar camp.
Several hours after the expiration of an ultimatum issued by the Government of National Accord (GNA), for the Libyan National Army (LNA), to withdraw from the City of Tarhouna, 90 km South East of Tripoli, all is now set for the great assault.
After two previous failed attempts by the GNA to capture the city, the United Nations backed forces are now set for another battle, \"Driving the forces of General Khalifa Haftar out of the town of Tarhouna, South East of the capital, could end Libya's civil war, Interior Minister Fathi Bashagha told Reuters on Wednesday, May 27, 2020 by phone.
For their part, the GNA forces announced that they had destroyed several military vehicles and captured 15 LNA combatants.
According to the GNA information service, 15 Russian planes carrying military equipment landed at Bani Walid airport.
On the LNA side it is reported that at least 8 Turkish military aircraft also transported military equipment to Misrata Airport.
Tripoli – The United Nations' (UN) Libya mission said on Tuesday the country's warring parties had agreed to restart talks aimed at reaching a lasting ceasefire, after a three-month suspension.
In a statement, UNSMIL \"welcomed\" moves by the Government of National Accord and forces backing eastern-based military commander Khalifa Haftar to accept \"restarting negotiations on a ceasefire and the related security arrangements\".
Pro-Haftar forces have been battling since April last year to seize the capital Tripoli from the UN-recognised GNA, in fighting that has left hundreds dead and forced 200 000 to flee their homes.
A military commission made up of five GNA loyalists and five Haftar delegates held talks in February, but the dialogue was suspended.
A January truce brokered by GNA backer Turkey and key Haftar ally Russia has been repeatedly violated.
A woman who gave birth at sea was among 93 migrants rescued off Libyan shores as they tried to reach Europe, but six others died along the way, the UN's migration agency said.
The situation of refugees and migrants in Libya worsened after eastern Libya-based military commander Khalifa Haftar launched an assault on Tripoli in 2019 and the onset of the novel coronavirus pandemic.
Human rights groups have repeatedly criticised the systematic return of migrants intercepted in the Mediterranean to Libya, where they are held in crowded detention centres.
The latest operation came just days after French charity vessel Ocean Viking picked up dozens of migrants off the Italian island of Lampedusa after they had drifted from Libya.
Nicholas Romaniuk, who coordinated the mission aboard that vessel, said rescue ships are often out-run by the Libyan coastguard who beat them to intercept migrants and return them to Libya.
By CLARENCE GLOVER Jr. Sankofa Education Services Out of the deepest pains of suffering come the loudest cries for life. John Newton was an Englishman who bought and sold African people. On a [...]
By Danica Kirka
The Associated Press
Nations around the world have watched in horror at the five days of civil unrest in the United States following the death of a Black man being detained by police.
Burning cars and riot police in the U.S. featured on newspaper front pages around the globe May 31—bumping news of the COVID-19 pandemic to second-tier status in some places.
Germany’s top-selling Bild newspaper on Sunday carried the sensational headline “This killer-cop set America ablaze” with an arrow pointing to a photo of now-fired police officer Derek Chauvin, who has been charged with third-degree murder in Floyd’s death, with his knee on Floyd’s neck.
In Italy, the Corriere della Sera newspaper’s senior U.S. correspondent Massimo Gaggi wrote that the reaction to Floyd’s killing was “different” than previous cases of Black Americans killed by police and the ensuring violence.
In another expression of solidarity with American protesters, about 150 people marched through central Jerusalem on May 30 to protest the shooting death by Israeli police of an unarmed, autistic Palestinian man earlier in the day.
Within the framework of the operation to repatriate Cameroonians blocked abroad due to the coronavirus pandemic, 139 of them got to the Yaounde-Nsimalen International Airport on Saturday, May 9, 2020 on board a special Ethiopian Airlines plane from Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, information from the Ministry of External Relations indicates.
The Ministry's sources further disclose that Cameroon's General Consulate in Dubai under the coordination of the Consul General, Donancier Mebouogue worked tirelessly for the return of the Cameroonians from the outset up to their departure at the DXB Airport in Dubai.
It was disclosed that 152 Cameroonians were initially registered at the Consulate indicating their desire to return home but only 139 finally appeared at the airport and boarded the plane.
Unlike more affluent countries who shifted the burden of reparation to the citizens, the government of Cameroon shoulders all the bills and that has costed the State nearly FCFA 700 million for repartition, they further note.
Cameroon is amongst the few African countries ensuring and bearing the costs of the repatriation of its citizens.
We wrap the latest sports news from around the world and here in South Africa and look ahead to tonight's football action.
Minister of Foreign Affairs Hugh Todd this evening confirmed that the 12 Guyanese fishermen detained in Venezuela have been released and will begin their journey home at first light.
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BY SILENCE MUGADZAWETA The only way Africa can protect its population against continued Covid19 infections is by taking the respiratory virus’ vaccine, Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director John Nkengasong has said. Speaking at a CDC weekly press briefing, Nkengasong said Africa was not initially hit hard by Covid19 as previously anticipated due to concerted efforts by African governments in combating the epidemic. “During the first wave of the pandemic we were not affected the way it was projected and this is thanks to concerted efforts that were done across the continent -efforts led by heads of States, efforts led by the African Union Commission, Africa CDC and WHO in coordinating activities across the board,” he said. “When the pandemic hit Egypt on the 14th of February, the chairperson of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat convened a meeting which was attended by ministers of health when we had only two cases on the continent and developed a joint continental strategy.” He added: “Ministers left Addis Ababa on the 22nd February with clarity of actions to take.” Initially, according to WHO, it was anticipated that nearly a quarter of a billion people across Africa would be affected by coronavirus during the first year of the pandemic, and up to 190,000 of them would likely die if not controlled. Turning to Africa's contribution to the development of Covid19 vaccine, Nkengasong said that Africa CDC have proposed to the continental leadership that Africa needed to adopt a new public health order where local manufacturing of vaccines was guaranteed. “There is need to strengthen capacity (vaccine manufacturing) as part of our health security apparatus on the continent,” he said. Nkengasong added “there are three things that you need to guarantee your health security in terms of emerging disease. The ability to manufacture vaccines, the ability to produce diagnosis and the ability to manufacture drugs. If you miss any of the three, you are struck with the inability to fight effectively any pandemic.” Lately, there have been concerns that most African economies have played little or no role at all in the development of Covid19 vaccines. The African Union recently secured an additional 400 million doses of coronavirus vaccines on top of the 270 million doses that have already been secured. It is estimated that Africa would need 1.5 billion doses to immunize 60% of its population, at a cost of between $7 and $10 billion. As at 28 January 2021, Africa had recorded 3,515,047 cases, 88,993 deaths and 2,990,890 recoveries.
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard vowed Saturday there would be dangerous consequences for the United Arab Emirates after it announced a historic deal with Israel to open up diplomatic relations. The UAE is the first Gulf Arab state to do so and only the third Arab nation to establish normalized relations with Israel, Iran's regional archenemy. The Iranian Guard called the deal a 'shameful' agreement and an 'evil action' that was underwritten by the U.S., according to the group's statement on a website it runs, Sepah News. The Guard warned that the deal with Israel will set […]
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