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South Africa to open up COVID-19 vaccinations to 18-35 year olds from Friday 19 Aug 2021 - 02:59 pm
A healthcare worker receives the Johnson and Johnson coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital in Soweto, South Africa, Feb. 17, 2021. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko/File Photo
WHO Africa: COVID-19 booster shots make 'mockery' of equity 19 Aug 2021 - 02:53 pm
File photo: A healthcare worker receives the Johnson and Johnson coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital in Soweto, South Africa, Feb. 17, 2021. Reuters/Siphiwe Sibeko/File Photo
Eco-friendly vehicles offer quieter, cleaner safaris in Kenyan reserve 17 Aug 2021 - 01:18 pm
Gladys Kisemei, a tour guide at the Emboo River Camp drives tourists from the Ol Kiombo airstrip using an electric-powered safari vehicle at the Maasai Mara National Reserve in Narok County, Kenya July 16, 2021. Picture taken July 16, 2021. REUTERS/Monica
Gunmen kill seven at Nigerian gas project site 17 Aug 2021 - 12:29 pm
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Ivory Coast to begin Ebola vaccinations after case confirmed in Abidjan 16 Aug 2021 - 07:29 pm
FILE PHOTO: Healthcare workers adjust gear during a funeral of a person who is suspected of dying of Ebola in Beni, North Kivu Province of Democratic Republic of Congo, December 9, 2018. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic/File Photo
'A new day': Opposition leader elected president in Zambia 16 Aug 2021 - 05:10 pm
FILE PHOTO: Hakainde Hichilema, leader of Zambia's opposition United Party for National Development (UPND), addresses a media conference in Cape Town, South Africa, August 31, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings
Zambia's official opposition calls for unity amid election uncertainty 14 Aug 2021 - 08:20 pm
FILE PHOTO: Opposition UPND party's presidential candidate Hakainde Hichilema casts his ballot in Lusaka, Zambia, August 12, 2021. REUTERS/Jean Ndaisenga
Morocco reinforces vaccine campaign with Pfizer-BioNTech vaccinations 13 Aug 2021 - 06:50 pm
An elderly man receives the COVID-19 vaccine during a national coronavirus vaccination campaign, in Sale, Morocco January 29, 2021. REUTERS/Shereen Talaat/File Photo
Health minister wants S.Africa to stay at current lockdown level 13 Aug 2021 - 01:47 pm
FILE PHOTO: Thelma Modise, a member of the South African Police Service (SAPS) receives a dose of a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine as part of a vaccine rollout to over 180,000 SAPS members, in the township of Soweto, South Africa July 5, 2021. REU
Waist-deep flood hits Cameroon's commercial capital after torrential rains 12 Aug 2021 - 07:07 pm
People make their way through a flooded street after the heavy rains in Douala, Cameroon, August 12, 2021. REUTERS/Joel Kouam
Kenyan oxygen maker to double production as COVID-19 fuels demand 12 Aug 2021 - 02:35 pm
Walter Otieno, plant operator at Hewatele, an innovative oxygen supply company,, arranges empty oxygen medical cylinder tanks amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, at the Hewatele oxygen plant in Nairobi, Kenya August 3, 2021. Picture taken Au
Death toll up to 65 in Algeria wildfires; nation to mourn 11 Aug 2021 - 05:56 pm
A view shows a burnt area in the aftermath of a wildfire in Zekri, in the mountainous Kabylie region of Tizi Ouzou, east of Algiers, Algeria August 11, 2021. REUTERS/Abdelaziz Boumzar
WHO says Guinea monitoring 155 contacts after confirmed Marburg case 10 Aug 2021 - 09:41 pm
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Nigeria to resume COVID vaccinations on Aug. 16 10 Aug 2021 - 07:01 pm
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Four killed, three injured in Algerian forest fires 10 Aug 2021 - 03:35 pm
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Guinea records West Africa's first Marburg virus death, WHO says 09 Aug 2021 - 11:18 pm
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Zambia's Lungu faces tight election contest as debt crisis bites 09 Aug 2021 - 09:08 am
Zambia's President Edgar Lungu speaks at a rally in the capital Lusaka, Zambia January 19, 2015. REUTERS/Rogan Ward/File Photo
Zimbabwe floods Victoria Falls with vaccines to help tourism 08 Aug 2021 - 12:08 pm
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