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The former Deputy Health Minister, Dr Bernard Okoe-Boye, has disclosed that the idea to develop the new coronavirus vaccines by foreign doctors is to save lives and not kill people as perceived. According to Dr Okoe-Boye, the whites would have killed Africans easily if their only objective is to wipe out the growing population of the African continent. Speaking on Okay FM’s morning show, the former Deputy Health Minister noted that for a continent that consumes a lot of foreign produce, the easiest way to kill most people would be through the food we consume and the stuff they wear. “You…

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Today, 4 in 10 of the world’s deaths are unregistered and in the African region, only 1 in 10 deaths is currently recorded, according to the first ever global assessment of country health information systems. Two-thirds of low-income countries have established a standardized system to report causes of deaths. However, the SCORE Report highlights the urgent need to strengthen these systems to help the world respond to health emergencies and track progress towards global health goals. The pandemic has highlighted that even the most advanced health and data systems still struggle to provide data in near real-time in order to…

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Hard-hit South Africa received its first shipments of coronavirus vaccine doses, with up to 2 million expected to be delivered by March. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Monday that his country had secured a total of 12 million doses of coronavirus vaccines through the international COVAX program. Approximately 2 million of those doses were expected to be released by March, Ramaphosa said in a televised address. The COVAX program, which is backed by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Gavi vaccine alliance, seeks to ensure fair access to COVID-19 vaccines for low and middle-income countries. Ramaphosa also said that…

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Former President Donald Trump has until Tuesday to file a response to his impeachment, as Democrats plan out a substantive case for conviction in the Senate. Former President Donald Trump has until Tuesday to submit a formal response to the impeachment charge against him, as the Senate will hold a trial later this month. The former president was impeached in the Democratic-majority House of Representatives on the charge of “Incitement of Insurrection” following the January 6 siege at the U.S. Capitol building. If convicted in the Senate trial, senators could then hold another vote to bar Trump from political office in future. Trump…

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Northern Ireland’s First Minister Arlene Foster called the Northern Ireland Protocol “unworkable” after it became the focus of a spat with the EU over controls for coronavirus vaccine exports. The head of Northern Ireland’s government on Saturday called for special Brexit rules for the Irish border to be scrapped following a row with the EU as the bloc struggles to secure coronavirus vaccine supplies. The bloc — under pressure to secure vaccine supplies for its citizens — had  threatened late Friday to invoke Article 16 of the Northern Ireland Protocol to stop the free-flow of vaccines over the border from EU member Ireland to…

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Germany on Friday announced its plans to restrict incoming travel from a handful of countries, including Britain and Ireland, in an attempt to curb the spread of infectious coronavirus variants, going beyond the measures recommended by the European Union. “It’s about stopping the entry of a highly infectious virus,” Horst Seehofer, Germany’s interior minister, said on Thursday, a day before the federal cabinet approved the restrictions. Under the new travel ban — which also applies to passengers coming from Portugal, Brazil, South Africa, Lesotho and Eswatini (formerly known as Swaziland) — German residents will be able to return home, but…

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The EU backtracked Friday over threats to restrict vaccine exports to Northern Ireland after London voiced “grave concerns” over the proposed move. A furious row over shortages of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine has risked stoking conflict with the UK just weeks after London and Brussels sealed a Brexit trade agreement. The EU had warned it would invoke Article 16 — overriding part of a deal with London allowing the free-flow of goods over the Irish border — but backed down after criticism from the UK and Ireland. “The Commission will ensure that the Ireland / Northern Ireland Protocol is unaffected,” the…

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Organizers of the world-famous Coachella music festival, due to be held in April, have been forced to cancel the event because of coronavirus concerns, the second year in a row it has been shut down. Cameron Kaiser, a public health officer for California’s Riverside County, where the massive gathering is held, said Friday the order to cancel was based on concerns of “resurgence of Covid-19 both within the county of Riverside and worldwide.” He said the Coachella and Stagecoach music and arts festivals, both scheduled to take place in April, attract “hundreds of thousands of attendees from many countries, including…

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To respond to the urgent needs of an estimated 530,000 people displaced by conflict in Cabo Delgado, UNFPA has supported women- and girl-friendly spaces, distribution of dignity kits and mobile clinics. With 36 per cent of health facilities in the province damaged or destroyed, the sexual and reproductive health tents and mobile clinics offer family planning, antenatal consultations, and postpartum care services to ensure that the many women and girls of reproductive age have access to the life-saving services they require. The women and girl-friendly spaces offer psychosocial support and first aid, as well as gender-based violence case management, and…

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More than 200,000 South Sudanese refugees have returned from countries of asylum in the past two years, encouraged by news from friends and family that peace is slowly returning to their country. When Mary Nyekuola first returned to South Sudan after fleeing conflict four years ago, she wept. The land she left behind had been occupied and her husband had died while a refugee in Khartoum after a long illness. She had to start from scratch, but still, it felt good to be back. “I had mixed feelings. It was painful but at the same time I was happy to…

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