News From South Africa
Cameroonian officials say a suspected separatist attack on a school this week, which left four students and a teacher dead, has scared hundreds of teachers and students from going to school. Cameroon’s military said it launched a search Thursday for Read more
Gunmen have attacked a Libyan court before an appeal by the son of slain former ruler Muammar Gaddafi against the rejection of his presidential election candidacy, drawing alarm from the United Nations. Libya’s government on Friday called the perpetrators a Read more
JOHANNESBURG — As the world grapples with the emergence of the new highly transmissible variant of COVID-19, worried scientists in South Africa — where omicron was first identified — are scrambling to combat its lightning spread across the country. In Read more
Kenya has received a donation of 834,130 doses of Pfizer vaccines from the US government. The vaccines arrived Friday evening were received by Ministry of Health officials led the Port Health Officer in charge at JKIA Benjamin Murkomen. US officials Read more
Japan will tighten restrictions on traveLlers from six African countries, after the discovery of a new COVID-19 variant in South Africa, the government’s top spokesman said yesterday. Starting today, travellers who have recently been to Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Namibia, South Read more
Published by DPA EU member states have agreed to suspend passenger flights from seven southern African countries to contain a new, potentially more dangerous coronavirus variant, dpa learned from diplomatic sources on Friday. The European Commission proposed activating the so-called Read more