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More than 1.7 million COVID-19 vaccines arrive in the Democratic Republic of Congo Format KINSHASA, 03 MARCH 2021 -- More than 1.7 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines have arrived in Kinshasa, the capital of the DRC. They were shipped to the country through COVAX, an alliance comprising the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), Gavi, (the Vaccine Alliance), UNICEF and the World Health Organisation (WHO). The arrival of the vaccines is an historic step towards ensuring equitable...

Play audio 1XChange playback rate from 1 to 1 Mute audio American law forbids banking institutions from providing service in American currency to people on the sanctions list. In effect, the U.S. authorities have found ways of imposing the rules on companies and banks that are not incorporated in the United States – as long as an American entity is also involved in the process of receiving the money. According to the legal precedent on the matter, it’s enough for the foreign bank to use a U...

Share IN this final article in my #BlackHistoryMonth series, I bring you major expressions in the English language that owe entire debts to the linguistic ingenuity of Black Americans. As you will find below, the contributions that African Americans have made to global English also owe debts to the enduring influences of their (West) African origins. 1 Y’all. This colloquial abbreviation of “you all,” which functions as the plural form of the pronoun “you,” is recognized as the most f...

Hezbollah and Israel’s Richest Were Both Welcome at a Congo Bank Bloomberg 27/02/2021 (Bloomberg) -- 2018 was a good year for Afriland First Group SA, a Switzerland-based company that oversees a network of banks across Africa. In his opening comments to the annual report for the year, Paul Fokam, the group’s chairman and one of Cameroon’s wealthiest men, highlighted the “challenge of being ethical and compliant while creating value.” He asked readers to bear in mind that “we are ...

Gradi Koko and Navy Malela, auditors at a Democratic Republic of Congo bank, had to flee to Europe after exposing cash deposits worth millions by associates of Israeli billionaire Dan Gertler, who was at the time subject to international sanctions. Gertler's lawyer: Accusations are a 'deliberate weave of empty allegations'

“Our forward Yahya Zayd is expected to stay out of action for the next six weeks,” Azam confirmed on their social media pages. “This is after he picked a shoulder injury during the match against Mbeya City. “Zayd, who assisted the goal scored by Prince Dube during the match, was forced out of the match before the second half after he picked the injury while trying to score in the match.” Apart from Zayd, during the mini-transfer window which shut at midnight on January 15, Azam brough...

Will Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) president Félix Tshisekedi at last turn the Grand Inga Dam mirage into the Grand Inga Dam barrage? The dream of harnessing the mighty Congo downstream of Kinshasa to eventually generate up to 50,000 MW of electricity has been dangled before the largely unelectrified Congolese and the outside world for decades. Tshisekedi, who took office two years ago, has made Inga a priority, at least rhetorically – not only for the DRC but for Africa. He told pa...

Will Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) President Félix Tshisekedi at last turn the Grand Inga Mirage into the Grand Inga Barrage? The dream of harnessing the mighty Congo downstream of Kinshasa to eventually generate up to 50 000 MW of electricity has been dangled before the largely unelectrified Congolese and the outside world for decades. Tshisekedi, who took office two years ago, has made Inga a priority, at least rhetorically – not only for the DRC but for Africa. He told Parliame...

Final Call News : From left Felix-Antoine Tshisekedi, incoming chair of the African Union and Cyril Ramaphosa, outgoing chair. Photo: GIN That is the difficult question facing Felix-Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo, president of the Democratic Republic (DRC) as he assumes the post just relinquished by South African leader Cyril Ramaphosa. Skeptics are already circling President Tshisekedi who has ambitious goals for the AU in 2021. But he faces serious fires burning at home as he ends a troubled al...

From Celia Cruz to ChocQuibTown, 10(5) Emblematic Afro Latin songs to Discover 10 temas emblemáticos y afrolatinos para descubrir apenas en el #BlackHistoryMonth For Black History Month banned source decided to make a list of iconic afro-latin songs that probably most of you ONDTers have no idea about but you definitely should because they are great: Celia Cruz: "Quimbara" Live in Zaire, Africa, with Fania, 1974 Celia Cruz is more than a legend and i think most people, even non latinos, have h...