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Tag Archives: COVID-19

Africa faces 470 million COVID-19 vaccine shortfall this year

September 21, 2021 no comments
NEW YORK – PRN Africa — The international COVAX initiative aimed at guaranteeing global access to the vaccines, recently announced that it was being forced to slash planned deliveries to ...

COVID-19: Rich countries should donate at least 1 billion vaccine dose...

September 5, 2021 no comments
NEW YORK – PRN Africa – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, former President of Liberia, and Helen Clark, former Prime Minister of New Zealand, expressed deep concern over the slow pace of vaccine red...

Remove Sierra Leone from the UK red list of countries with covid 19 va...

August 20, 2021 no comments
We as Sierra Leoneans living in the UK feel it is quite unfair that our country with lower cases than most West African countries, is now listed on the red list. We feel it is also not fair that...

Hard working mid-wife dies in Sierra Leone after taking Chinese-Manufa...

June 24, 2021 no comments
A very hardworking Midwife at the PCMH hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone hasreportedly died 7 hours after being administered with a Chinese manufacturedCOVID-19 vaccine. Reports reaching Newstime Af...

Medical oxygen should not be a luxury – we’re trying to develop ...

May 4, 2021 no comments
David Fairen-Jimenez, University of Cambridge People might once have considered oxygen a human right. But the pandemic has revealed that access to oxygen – in a pure form, for medical use – is a luxu...

Vaccine equity the ‘challenge of our time’, WHO chief decl...

April 21, 2021 no comments
NEW YORK – PRN Africa — The summit – held in virtual format on the theme, “A Vaccine for All” – brought together senior officials from the UN, government, business, the ...

COVID-19: a new challenge for clean cooking progress in Kenya

March 29, 2021 no comments
Suzanne Bartington, University of Birmingham; Jessie Pinchoff, Population Council, and William Robert Avis, University of Birmingham Over 90% of the 238 million people living in sub-Saharan Africa’s ...

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This form of skilled labour migration should be rethought. Getty Images Aly Tandian, Université Gaston Berger Germany has announced a project for migrant centres in five African countries which would offer a select category of Africans the possibilit...

World News

Starlink: SpaceX’s new internet service could be a gamechanger in Africa

6 March 2023
.SpaceX’s Starlink service is slowly arriving in Africa, starting with Nigeria and Rwanda Wirestock Creators/Shutterstock…
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Why Russia is no friend of Africa – and why Ukraine deserves the support of all African countries

23 February 2023
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As it Happens

Inside Mali’s coup within a coup

30 May 2021 No Comments on Inside Mali’s coup within a coup

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Biography

Biography: – The Outstanding Professor P.L.O. Lumumba

19 February 2023 No Comments on Biography: – The Outstanding Professor P.L.O. Lumumba

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Matters of Interest

Corrupt Chinese Company Kingho exposed in Sierra Leone

1 March 2023 No Comments on Corrupt Chinese Company Kingho exposed in Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone’s Anti-Corruption Commissioner Not Fit For Purpose

25 February 2023 No Comments on Sierra Leone’s Anti-Corruption Commissioner Not Fit For Purpose

In the News

Mayor of Freetown Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr set to be the running mate of the APC flagbearer – Dr Samura Kamara in Sierra Leone

23 February 2023 No Comments on Mayor of Freetown Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr set to be the running mate of the APC flagbearer – Dr Samura Kamara in Sierra Leone

Making sense of Wole Soyinka’s difficult and brilliant new novel

8 January 2022 No Comments on Making sense of Wole Soyinka’s difficult and brilliant new novel
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