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Covid-19: Comparing Vaccination in Africa To The Rest Of The World
There has been global competition for the roll out of Covid-19 vaccines, and African countries have generally not been as successful as richer countries. World Health Organization (WHO) regional director for Africa, Matshidiso Moeti, has expressed sadness over the unfair distribution of vaccines especially to poor countries who are unable to acquire enough vaccines for…
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UK Finances Hit First January Deficit in 10 years
For the first time in 10 years, the UK government has announced that more has been borrowed in January than collected through tax and other income. January is usually a key revenue-raising month as it is when taxpayers submit their self-assessment returns. Tax income fell by less than £1bn, but the government spent £19.7bn more…
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Covid-19: COVAX Delivers Its First Batch Of Vaccines To Ghana
According to new reports, Ghana has become the first country to receive coronavirus vaccines through the Covax vaccine-sharing initiative. The World Health Organization (WHO) through the COVAX initiative aims to deliver about two billion doses of Covid-19 vaccines globally, to ensure fair sharing of vaccines among all nations. Many rich nations were recently accused of…
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Healthcare Crisis In Somalia Reaches Frightening Heights
Somalia’s healthcare system is currently struggling with the spike in daily new Covid-19 infections which some healthcare practitioners believe is due to the new coronavirus strain. The second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic is hitting the East African nation really hard according to new reports. Health workers at the Martini Hospital in Mogadishu, the capital’s…
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Military Airstrike Kills Several In Northern Nigeria
The president of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, has recently ordered a military airstrike targetted at bandits who have been responsible for cattle rustling and kidnapping of school children in Northern Nigeria. The Nigerian Airforce has killed an unspecified number of bandits in numerous air raids conducted in Kaduna State communities over the past two days. According…
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Ivory Coast Moves To Boost Tourism Sector Despite The Pandemic
Despite the global pandemic, Ivory Coast has been able to raise 5.8 billion euros ($6.4 billion) for the proposed development of its tourism sector. With the money raised, the Ivorian government plans to renovate certain emblematic buildings, build many hotels on the coast and inland, several wildlife, water and amusement parks, a marina in Abidjan,…
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A Look At High Profile School Abduction Cases In Nigeria
In April 2014, the Nigerian government condemned the kidnapping of 276 girls from their school dormitory in Chibok, Borno State. Six years after, the Nigerian government again has condemned the abduction of 317 schoolgirls from a Government Girls Science Secondary School in Jangebe, Zamfara State. Nigeria has over the years experienced a steady rise in…
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Kenyan Boat Company Launches Electric Fishing Boat
A boat making company in Kenya is offering environmentally-friendly electric engines which come at a lesser cost. The company known as Asobo has the goal of massively reducing the negative impact of fuel emissions on Lake Victoria in East Africa, the world’s second-largest freshwater lake. Tens of thousands of fishing boats head out on Kenya’s…
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Apple Has Acquired 100 companies In The Last Six Years
Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook has revealed the company has been buying companies every three to four weeks in the last six years. Apple recently delivered its largest quarter by revenue of all time, bringing in $111.4bn (£78.7bn) in the first quarter of its 2021 fiscal year. Mr Cook told the shareholders meeting that the company…
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Cholera Epidemic Kills 55 People In Northern Mozambique
According to UNICEF, 55 people have died of Cholera in northern Mozambique since the beginning of the year. The country has recorded nearly 5,000 cases of the disease among hundreds of thousands of displaced persons forced to abandon their homes and seek refuge with relatives or in camps. Daniel Timme, a UNICEF spokesman in Mozambique…