Confirmed cases of measles are increasing in South Africa, now reaching 970 since its outbreak in October 2022, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) said on Tuesday. NICD said 43 per cent of those infected are aged five to nine years. Twenty-four per cent are from one to four years and 20 per cent […]
Rwanda’s Government is set to digitise selected genocide memorial sites in the country as part of the efforts to preserve the history of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi. It is also to ease visitors’ access to memorials, an official said on Friday. Jean Damascene Bizimana, Minister of National Unity and Civic Engagement, made the […]
Diaspora communities are the greatest off-shore assets useful to achieve sustainable development in their countries of origin. Secretary-General of the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS), Georges Chikoti, made this remark at the second edition of the Global African Diaspora Symposium (GADS), in Abuja. He said GADS ”is geared towards creating right framework […]
Authorities from Botswana’s Ministry of Health and Wellness, on Friday, said they vaccinated 370,000 children aged seven years and below, against poliovirus type 2 (cVOPV2). Christopher Nyanga, the ministry spokesperson, said the vaccination campaigns ran from Feb. 23 to April 2 in all districts across the southern African country. “Health officials detected the cVOPV2 in […]
Sri Lanka’s inflation, measured by the Colombo Consumer Price Index (CCPI), dropped to 35.3 per cent in April, data showed on Friday. In March, CCPI-based inflation was 50.3 per cent, the Department of Census and Statistics said in a press release. The year-on-year inflation of the food group dropped to 30.6 per cent in April […]
Global sales of electric cars are set to soar by 35 per cent in 2023, expanding overall car market share to close to a fifth, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Wednesday. In its annual Global Electric Vehicle Outlook, IEA said it sold more than 10 million electric cars worldwide in 2022. It added […]
Tunisian coast guards have retrieved 31 bodies of illegal immigrants off the country’s coasts late Sunday night, Tunisian National Guard said Monday. “Coast guard units retrieved 31 bodies, including two women and two children, off the coasts of Sfax, Mahdia and Gabes provinces,” Houcemeddine Jbabli, Tunisian National Guard’s spokesman, said in a statement. Preliminary examinations […]
The Egyptian authorities evacuated on Sunday 436 Egyptian nationals from Sudan as fierce fighting continues in the neighbouring country. In a statement, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry said authorities evacuated the nationals via land in coordination with the Sudanese authorities. According to the statement, the Egyptian diplomatic missions in Khartoum, Port Sudan, and Wadi Halfa area […]
The Head of the United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP) in Chad says it expects more refugees to flee across the border from Sudan. About 10,000 to 20,000 Sudanese have already crossed the border into Chad a week after the fighting began in Khartoum and other areas of the country. “We are expecting more waves, […]
The Sudanese Army, on Saturday, pledged it would help secure evacuation of foreign diplomats and nationals amid Sudan’s deadly clashes between the army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). According to an Army statement, its General Commander, Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, received calls from leaders of a number of countries requesting the evacuation of their nationals […]