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© REUTERS / CARL RECINE Africa as a whole has suffered comparatively less deaths from the novel coronavirus compared to many industrialized nations, for reasons still not entirely clear. However, if global vaccination trends are not reversed, the continent’s deaths could continue long after they decline in other places. Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire launched their COVID-19 vaccination drives on Monday, the first on the planet to use vaccines provided by the World Health Organization’s COVAX ...

Oxford vaccine pioneer proud as first Covax jabs administered and campaign goes global Côte dIvoire and Ghana race each other to get the first injections into arms in West Africa By Paul Nuki, Global Health Security Editor, Abidjan, Côte dIvoire 1 March 2021 • 12:35pm The first 0.5 millilitre shot of the Oxford AstraZeneca jab went into the arm of Secrétaire général de la présidence, Patrick Achi Credit: Paul Nuki The first Covax vaccines were administered to government ministers and ...

Covid vaccine campaign kicks off in Cote d’Ivoire Issued on: 01/03/2021 - 18:26 Patrick Achi gets the first shot of AstraZenecas Covid-19 vaccine, Abidjan, 1 March 2021. © AFP - Issouf Sanogo 2 min More than 500,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine have arrived in Cote d’Ivoire as part of the Covax initiative, which will be rolled out in the West African country in several stages with the aim of vaccinating five million Ivori...

Channels Television   Updated March 1, 2021 Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo receiving a shot of Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine in a live broadcast. PHOTO: @NAkufoAddo/Twitter   Ghana and its West African neighbour Ivory Coast on Monday became the world’s first states to administer vaccines from Covax, a global scheme to procure free Covid jabs for poorer countries. Richer nations have surged ahead with inoculating their population, but many poorer countries are still awaiting their first va...

Ghana’s president became the world’s first recipient of a coronavirus vaccine from COVAX.

ABIDJAN — The European Union on Friday urged Ivory Coast to prepare for stricter cocoa laws the body hopes to introduce later this year which aim to protect…

February 1 2021 / Modified on February 1 2021 Ivory Coast will have to reduce the impact of its cocoa production on the environment. The European Union, the main importer of Ivorian cocoa, will soon adopt regulations prohibiting the import of products linked to deforestation. To reconcile their respective interests, the two partners have launched the "sustainable cocoa" initiative to improve the supply chain for Ivoria...

The European Union on Friday urged the Ivory Coast to prepare for stricter cocoa laws that the body hopes to ratify later this year with the aim of protecting forests, curbing child labour and ending farmer poverty. In September, the EU launched an initiative to improve sustainability in the cocoa industry in collaboration with officials from the world’s top cocoa producers Ivory Coast and Ghana, as well as member states, cocoa growers and civil society. “The European consumer wants to eat ...

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By Reuters Staff 2 Min Read ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivory Coast Vice President Daniel Kablan Duncan has resigned, the presidency said on Monday, further unsettling the political outlook days after the sudden death of prime minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly, President Alassane Ouattara’s preferred successor. Slideshow ( 5 images ) The death last week of Gon Coulibaly, hand-picked by Ouattara to run in October’s presidential election, has left the ruling party scrambling to find a replacement candida...