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Tigray Defence Force Parade 7,000 Captured Ethiopian Soldiers
The Tigray Defence Force has released a rare video showing more than 7,000 captured Ethiopian soldiers walking towards the Mekele Rehabilitation Centre, in the capital of Ethiopia’s Tigray region. The Tigray Defence Forces (TDF) shared that the captured soldiers walked for four days, a 75 km long journey from Abdi Eshir to Mekele, the capital of…
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African Union To Purchase 110 Million Moderna COVID Vaccines
Africa is soon to receive up to 110 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines from Moderna Inc t brokered in part by the White House and the African Union. The AU’s doses will be delivered over the coming months, with 15 million arriving before the end of the year, 35 million in the first quarter of…
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Gunmen Attack Oyo State Prison, Free Dozens Of Inmates
Olanrewaju Anjorin, a spokesman of the Oyo correctional centre in Oyo state, has reported a jailbreak after gunmen attacked the facility on Friday night. The spokesman told The Associated Press news agency on Saturday that the centre could not ascertain the number of prisoners that escaped during the attack. “I can’t ascertain the number of…
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Nigeria Becomes First African Country To Roll Out Digital Currency
Nigeria has joined the list of emerging markets betting on digital money to boost its participation in the formal financial system. The digital currency, called the eNaira, was officially launched today after the apex bank of Nigeria outlawed banks and financial institutions from transacting or operating in cryptocurrencies in February. Since the launch of the…
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What To Know About The New Malaria Vaccine
With close to half a million deaths from malaria in 2019, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa, the World Health Organization has approved for the first time a new vaccine that scientists have spent decades working on. However, with only a 30 to 40 percent efficacy, some have questioned its worth among other concerns on funding and…
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Kenya Lifts COVID Curfew As Infections Ease
President Uhuru Kenyatta has announced the immediate lifting of a nationwide dusk-to-dawn curfew in force since March 2020 following spiking covid-19 infection rates. The East African nation, which has a population of 54 million, has reported 252,199 cases of COVID-19 and 5,233 deaths but vaccination rates remain low, with only 4.6 percent of the adult…
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Fossil Fuel Producers To Exceed 1.5C Climate Target
A report published by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) on Wednesday found that governments are still planning to extract double the amount of fossil fuels in 2030 than what would be consistent with the 2015 Paris climate accord’s goal of keeping the global temperature rise below 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit). The Production Gap report,…
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30 Kidnapped Students Released In Northwest Nigeria
Thirty students who were kidnapped by criminal gangs locally known as bandits have been released four months after their abduction in northwest Nigeria. More than 1,000 students have been snatched since December in Africa’s most populous nation by gunmen known locally as bandits. “Today… thirty (30) students of the Federal Government College, Birnin Yauri have…
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Several Civilians Killed As Air Raid Hits Ethiopia’s Tigray
A television station controlled by regional authorities has reported an air raid on Mekelle, the capital of northern Ethiopia’s Tigray region, despite adamant denials by the government. The broadcast shared that several civilians were wounded in the recent air raid which is the first of its kind in Mikelle since the conflict erupted last year.…
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Ebola Vaccination Begins In Eastern DRC
Vaccination against Ebola has commenced in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo after a new outbreak was recorded in the region weeks ago. Five months after the country declared an end to the last outbreak that killed six people, new cases were reported in the first week of October, claiming the lives of 2 people. Health…