Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | MultiChoice Group has published its Social Impact Report which details how Africa’s leading entertainment company continues to make a meaningful difference in the communities in which it operates. The group operates in 50 countries across Africa. The report covers initiatives implemented which had a significant impact …
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Brazzaville, Congo | Xinhua | COVID-19 vaccine shipments to Africa must rise by over seven times from around 20 million to 150 million each month on average in order to fully vaccinate 70 percent of its people by September 2022, said the World Health Organization in a statement Thursday. The 70 …
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Nairobi, Kenya | THE INDEPENDENT – Pan-African housing development financier Shelter Afrique has fully paid commercial debts owed to eight lenders, giving the company the leverage to underwrite new debt. In 2018, Shelter Afrique signed a Debt Restructuring Agreement with the eight lenders – six DFIs and two commercial banks – to …
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | Xinhua | Ongoing misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines is contributing to many people across Africa to be skeptical of getting COVID-19 vaccine jabs, the African Union (AU) has said. The statement was made by William Carew, head of the Secretariat of AU’s Economic Social and Cultural Council, as …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Archbishop Augustine Kasujja, the first native African to be appointed Apostolic Nuncio by the Vatican has retired. The Canon Law requires Catholic prelates to submit their resignation letters from the pastoral governance of their dioceses, or any other duties, to the Pontiff after clocking the …
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Nimule, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Intergovernmental Authority on Development – IGAD has reactivated a joint committee to respond to the health and social-economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic at the Uganda-South Sudan border. The 10-member committee Selected during a cross-border committee meeting held in Nimule Town Council on …
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FULL STATEMENT ON COUPS IN AFRICA Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has again castigated the coup leaders in Guinea in a statement released today, questioning their ideological stand. The statement by Uganda’s President was titled ‘On the military coups that have recently taken place in some African …
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Geneva, Switzerland | Xinhua | Africa has been “left behind by the rest of the world” as only two percent of the more than 5.7 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses administered globally have been administered there, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday, warning the world against vaccine …
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Without reforms in decision-making at multilateral institutions, African economies will continue to be erroneously branded as poor quality investment destinations | HANNAH RYDER | Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and now space traveller, is famous for his observation that “your brand is what people say about you when you are not …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A total of 157 volunteers have so far enrolled in a study happening in Masaka, one of the sites that have been selected to assess effectiveness of a vaccine against HIV in Africa. The study dubbed PrEPVACC is also happening in Mbeya and Dar-es- Salaam …
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