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The late minister Jackson Mphikwa Mthembu's memorial service was postpone to Monday, 25 January 2021 as per his family's wishes.
A November 26 letter from the presidency asked the head of Uganda's national drug authority to 'work out a mechanism' to clear the importation of the vaccines.
China has about five COVID-19 vaccine candidates at different levels of trials. It was not clear what vaccine was being imported into Uganda.
One of the frontrunners is the Sinopharm vaccine developed by the Beijing Institute of Biological Product, a unit of Sinopharm’s China National Biotec Group (CNBG).
On Wednesday, the United Arab Emirates said the vaccine has 86% efficacy, citing an interim analysis of late-stage clinical trials.
China has used the drug to vaccinate up to a million people under its emergency use program.
On Tuesday, Morocco said it was ordering up to 10 million doses of the vaccine.
Record cases
Uganda on Monday registered 701 new COVID-19 cases, the highest-ever daily increase, bringing its national count to 23,200.
The new cases were out of the 5,578 samples tested for the novel coronavirus over the past 24 hours, the country's health ministry said in a statement.
Tuesday's tally was 606, the second-highest ever number of new infections, bringing the cumulative number of confirmed cases in the east African country to 23,860.
Health authorities have blamed ongoing election campaigns which have drawn huge crowds for the rise in infections.
Thousands of climate activists and supporters are expected to commemorate Global Day of Climate Action.
By DEB RIECHMANN and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Joe Biden has had his first look as president-elect at the President's Daily Brief, a top secret summary of U.S. intelligence and world events — a document former first lady Michelle Obama has called 'The Death, Destruction, and Horrible Things Book.' Biden has already had eyes on different iterations of the so-called PDB, which is tailored to the way each president likes to absorb information. More than a decade ago, Biden read President George W. Bush's PDB during Biden's transition into the vice presidency. After that, he read […]
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It has been a wild, wild ten years for South Africa. We've gone through a lot together, and this newly published book plays a spectacular blame game.
[DW] Two cities in the Amhara region have been struck by rockets fired by forces from the neighboring Tigray region, the government has claimed. Hundreds of people have been killed so far this month in a spiraling conflict.
BY HARRIET CHIKANDIWA Energy deputy minister Magna Mudyiwa said Zimbabwe has adopted a Sustainable Development Goal which will see more people have accessed to cheap solar electricity by 2030.Addressing delegates during a renewable energy webinar yesterday, Mudyiwa said solar energy will provide the cheapest source of electricity for many of the 600 million people across Africa who cannot access electricity today. She said to date, Africa, a continent with the richest solar resources in the world, has installed only around five gigawatts (GW) of solar energy. “The rate at which we as a continent are able to harness and unlock this transformative renewable resource remains a big challenge which each one of you should reflect on throughout the discourse of this conference and every other conference of this nature,” Mudyiwa said. “Globally, the issue of energy access is topical. The United Nations Sustainable Energy for All Programme which has now been adopted as a Sustainable Development Goal (SDG7) has targets of universal access for all by 2030. This target has been embraced by most of the Sadc countries, Zimbabwe included,” she said. Mudyiwa said Zimbabwe currently has a national electrification rate of 42%. While electricity has reached 83% of urban households, rural electrification rate is still around 13% as per National Energy Policy of 2012, however, these figures might have gone up. She urged policymakers to address the persistent lack of access to electricity and clean cooking, and the unreliability of electricity supply, which have acted as brakes on the continent’s development and meeting the energy needs of Africa’s population in full. “Policymakers alone cannot shoulder the immense investment requirements necessary to ensure that the security of energy supply is guaranteed,” Mudyiwa said. “We need to come together as bureaucrats, technocrats, investors and private players to realise this goal of universal access to clean energy for all.” She added: “I believe the continent also require investors in installing renewable energy-based power plants as well as upgrading and construction of power transmission and distribution lines to make sure the produced electricity reaches the consumers more efficiently. “Apart from renewable energy resources, we have large deposits of lithium in the country, a key component in battery manufacturing. It is time we should explore the quantities and set up manufacturing plants for batteries in order to complete the renewable energy transition.” She said another energy storage technique is to use solar plants to supply power during the day and only switch to large hydropower at night when the other intermittent technologies would have dropped.
NEW YORK, United States (CMC) - Caribbean American United States Vice-President-elect Senator Kamala Harris Sunday night recognised the contributions of Caribbean Americans in a virtual message commemorating her historic inauguration planned for Wednesday.
LUCEA, Hanover - Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton says Jamaica is closely monitoring developments in the United Kingdom, where a new variant of the coronavirus has been identified.The minister said this will guide Jamaica's decision-making process.
Following a long week of anxiously awaiting election results, President-elect Joe Biden called for healing in his victory speech. The Merriam-Webster definition of healing is “to make whole, make free […]
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Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 September 2020: Yesterday, the Sierra Leone Telegraph published the Sierra Leone government’s response (White Paper) to the recommendations of the Justice Biobele led Commission of Inquiry into the management of State affairs by the previous APC government of president Koroma, which found that hundreds of millions of dollars had been stolen…
[IPS] Rome -- The month of October 2020 will be recalled as one of the most important moments in raising awareness about world food security, whether in the global debate or in the search for possible concrete solutions.
[The Conversation Africa] Tanzanians voted in their general election on October 28 in a poll that pitted popular opposition chief Tundu Lissu against incumbent John Magufuli. As the votes are counted, Dan Paget explains why incumbent John Magufuli is likely to be declared the winner, and what his second term will mean for democracy in the East African nation.
Reactions to the positive coronavirus tests of President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump poured in from around the globe Friday, as U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson joined Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Indian President Ram Nath Kovind and others in tweeting their well-wishes.
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The report that U.S. President Donald Trump made crude, disparaging remarks about Nelson Mandela, South Africa's Nobel Peace Prize-winning former leader, has drawn an angry response from South Africa's ruling party and others. According to a book written by Michael Cohen, Trump’s former personal lawyer, Trump said that Mandela, who guided South […]
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Beyonce is faking being African American for clout, and is in .
Beyoncé is not even African American, he proclaimed. She
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Steve Harvey apparently is looking a little different, more specifically older, according to some fans of him and his wife, Marjorie.
In a photo Marjorie Harvey posted to Instagram on Tuesday, June 9, users accidentally mistook Steve for his wife’s father.
Instagram users applauded the pair for voting early, but a few people confused Steve for Marjorie’s father, adding that he looked “old.”
When a different person assured the man in the picture was “Steve Harvey,” the fan replied, “I Thgt that was her father but now👀.”
Someone else swore up and down that Steve was “Marjorie’s dad,” but a fan corrected the person and responded, “No that’s uncle Steve.”
Editorial - Government could do more to contain the menace
England have taken an unassailable 2-0 lead in their three-match T20I series against the Proteas.
[Monitor] President Museveni has said security agencies, especially the Uganda People's Defence Forces (UPDF), are set to deal with anyone who will cause violence in Kampala and other parts of the country during the election period.
BY HENRY MHARA FORMER Monomotapa and Harare City Football Club official Morehope Chizuzu was on Tuesday convicted for bashing his wife. He was facing a charge of causing grievous bodily harm to his wife and he chose to make a guilty plea when he appeared at the Harare Magistrates Court. He expressed remorse and apologised to the court for his embarrassing actions. The court heard that Chizuzu tried to choke his wife, Paidamoyo, before violently banging her against the wall several times. All this, according to court papers, happened in front of their kids. “Accused person also shouted to the complainant in front of the kids, saying ‘uri hure nhasi ndinoda kukuuraya’ (you area prostitute, today I want to kill you),’ the documents show. Magistrate Munashe Chibanda ordered Chizuzu to pay $5 000 fine before January 31 or be jailed for two months. The disgraced Chizuzu was also put on good behaviour bond for five years. He told the court that he was fully aware of the crime he committed and was asking for forgiveness. On January 8 at around 6:30am, Chizuzu, who works for Harare City, demanded his undergarments and pair of jeans from his wife and accused her of trying to kill him. The court heard that Chizuzu allegedly accused his wife of stealing his jean trousers. A report was made leading to his arrest. Tapiwa Zvidzai prosecuted. The punishment did not go down well with some people who took to social media to express their dismay. “This wife beater should be in jail for what he did. But he got off with just a slap on the wrist,” commented Joseph Mutombeni on Twitter. Follow us on Twitter @NewsDayZimbabwe
WASHINGTON,DC, United States (AP) - Outgoing United States National Intelligence Director John Ratcliffe says China poses the greatest threat to America and the rest of the free world since World War II, as the Trump Administration ramps up anti-Chinese rhetoric to pressure President-elect Joe Biden to be tough on Beijing.
Field hospitals, ambulances, ventilators, masks and even personnel are among the hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of assistance the U.S. has recently diverted to African nations in their fight against the coronavirus pandemic.
VOA’s Anita Powell spoke exclusively with Assistant Secretary of State Clarke Cooper of the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs about how U.S. peacekeeping operations are finding creative ways to empower African nations to fight the virus.
As the African continent girds itself for what experts say is an inevitable tide of coronavirus cases, the U.S. government is trying to find creative ways to quickly render assistance.
“There's medical equipment that has been applied, as well as training, delivered to partners like Ghana, Rwanda, Senegal and Uganda for participation in international peacekeeping,\" said Assistant Secretary of State Clarke Cooper, of the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs.
And in South Africa, the continent’s viral hot spot, the U.S. government recently donated nearly 730,000 protective masks for health workers, as well as about 1,000 ventilators.
Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr., president and CEO of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), recently announced that he and the NNPA have agreed to assist the efforts of Earvin “Magic” Johnson, majority owner of EquiTrust, the nation’s largest minority-owned insurance company, and MBE Capital Partners (MBECP), the largest certified minority-owned asset-based lender, in funding over $100 million in PPP loans.
