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The African Union Commission (AUC) in collaboration with Kenya Hold 14th Meeting of African Task Force on Food and Nutrition Development and The Regional Economic Communities’ (RECs) Consultation

The African powerful concept of ‘Ubuntu’ has never rung louder and truer than the last two and a half years.

Health experts said the emergence of the new variant identified by South African scientists is a by-product of unheeded warnings about vaccine inequality that could prolong the Covid-19 pandemic even further.

The United Kingdom was the first to close its borders to southern Africans last Thursday, just hours after the Health Department confirmed the new coronavirus variant.

Keeping a lid on risks of new covid variants as vaccinated countries ease restrictions

Fending off global terror influx in Africa The Punch Published 11 July 2021 THE global terrorist influx into Africa with Nigeria as one of its epicentres is gathering renewed international attention. Expert assessment of recent jihadist expansion in sub-Saharan Africa coincided with a summit of the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS held in Rome, Italy, where a new continental task force was proposed among other measures to combat the growing threat. Nigeria and other countries sho...

July 2, 2021 Share The African Union special envoy tasked with leading efforts to procure COVID-19 vaccines for the continent is blasting Europe as Africa struggles amid a crushing third surge of infections, saying Thursday that “not one dose, not one vial, has left a European factory for Africa.” Strive Masiyiwa also took aim at the global effort meant to distribute vaccines to low- and middle-income countries, accusing COVAX of withholding crucial information including that key do...

Article bookmarked Dont show me this message again✕ Virus Outbreak Africa (Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.) The African Union special envoy tasked with leading efforts to procure COVID-19 vaccines for the continent is blasting Europe as Africa struggles amid a crushing third surge of infections, saying Thursday that “not one dose, not one vial, has left a European factory for Africa.” Strive Masiyiwa also took aim at the global effort meant to distribute vaccin...

Communique of 998th meeting of the the PSC held at the ministerial level on 22 May 2021, on “Access to Vaccines Against COVID-19 by the African Continent: Challenge to Human Security in Africa” Format The Peace and Security Council, Noting the opening remarks made by H.E. Sabri BOUKADOUM, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria and Chairperson of the PSC for May 2021, as well as the statement of the Chairperson of the AU Commission, H.E. Moussa Faki ...

Science’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Simons Foundation. On 8 December, during a regular Tuesday meeting about the spread of the pandemic coronavirus in the United Kingdom, scientists and public health experts saw a diagram that made them sit up straight. Kent, in southeastern England, was experiencing a surge in cases, and a phylogenetic tree showing viral sequences from the county looked very strange, says Nick Loman, a microbial genomicist at the ...