Under-30s are to be offered an alternative Covid jab to the AstraZeneca vaccine due to mounting evidence linking it to rare blood clots, the UK's vaccine advisory body says.
Tanzania's new president, Samia Suluhu Hassan has announced that bans slapped on a number of media outlets by her predecessor who died last month are now to be lifted.
The Lives & Livelihoods Fund (LLF), a multilateral development initiative created by the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) with support from several development cooperation partners, and the government of Guinea today delivered 56 sanitation trucks to the National Agency for Public Hygiene and Sanitation (ANASP), an agency under Guinea’s Ministry of Hydraulics and Sanitation, to address challenges linked to urgent solid waste disposal in key areas of Conakry, the capital city of Guinea.
Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro is facing the biggest crisis of his presidency after the heads of the army, navy and air force all quit and the country recorded its highest daily Covid-19 death toll.
Former US President Barack Obama has penned down an emotional tribute to mourn her departed Kenyan paternal grandmother, Sarah Ogwel Onyango Obama, popularly known to her family as "Dani."
Germany has extended its lockdown for three weeks, imposing an almost complete halt over the Easter holiday in response to a third wave of coronavirus infections.
The UN, the US, Canada, the African Union and several European nations have called on Somalia’s political leaders to “show leadership” by reaching an agreement on elections that were delayed due to squabbling over the voting process.
