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KHARTOUM — The United States of America announced here Tuesday a package of assistance measures for Sudan in the areas of health, elections, rural development, and ways to help carrying out Thamarat program, designed to assist the poor to fight inflation in the country.During a press conference in capital, Khartoum, the Executive Director of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Samantha Power said that, as part of the assistance, the US administration was sending an aircraft carrying quantities of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines to help health authorities combat the pandemic.She said that a plane carrying 600,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine would arrive in Khartoum within the next two days, in implementation of directives of US President Joe Biden to...
August 04, 2021
US provides 600,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine to Sudan
ABUJA — Coronavirus deaths in Africa rose rapidly over the past month, as fatalities surged by 80 percent within the last four weeks, the World Health Organization has said.WHO's Vaccine Introduction Officer for the African Region, Phionah Atuhebwe, said on Monday that the continent was witnessing an unprecedented rise in coronavirus fatalities."COVID-19 death rates have increased across Africa, with the highest weekly rate (6,343) to date reported during the week starting July 19, 2021," said Atuhebwe.
"Deaths increased by 89 percent, from 13,242 to 24,987, in the last 28 days, when compared against statistics for the previous 28 days," she added.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a news conference on Friday that the pandemic's worsening...
August 03, 2021
Delta variant has spiked COVID-19 deaths in Africa by 80% in one month, WHO says
July 30, 2021
100,000 children in Ethiopia's Tigray at risk of death from malnutrition: UNICEF
GENEVA — After a near-halt of COVID-19 vaccine shipments in Africa, delivers have ramped up in recent months, the UN health agency said on Thursday.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO) nearly four million doses of coronavirus vaccines from the UN-partnered COVAX initiative arrived in Africa last week, compared with just 245,000 for all of June.
Reminding that the continent is still “in the throes of the pandemic’s third wave”, WHO regional director for Africa, Matshidiso Moeti, told a virtual press conference with the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, “we are not out of the woods yet”.
Left behind
WHO said that it hoped COVAX would ship 520 million doses to Africa by the end of 2021, in addition to more shots from other sources, including...
July 30, 2021
COVID-19 vaccine shipments boost for Africa
July 28, 2021
UN-African Union Mission in Darfur in final shutdown phase
July 27, 2021
US announces nearly $200mn in new humanitarian aid for Somalia
July 27, 2021
Child malnutrition expected to quadruple in Southern Madagascar
OUAGADOUGOU — Rising violent attacks by militant groups in Burkina Faso are forcing record-breaking numbers of people to flee both inside the country and across international borders, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, reported on Friday.
Six percent of the population in the West African country is now internally displaced, with more than 1.3 million people uprooted in just over six weeks, according to the latest government figures.
No slowing down
The speed of internal displacement shows no sign of slowing as attacks on civilians and security forces continue unabated, UNHCR spokesperson Babar Baloch told journalists in Geneva.
During the first six months of the year, 237,000 people fled their homes to other parts of the country, which is a sharp increase over the 96,000 registered during...
July 23, 2021
Increased militant attacks in Burkina Faso spark record-breaking displacement: UNHCR
July 22, 2021
As famine looms, first WFP humanitarian flight arrives in Ethiopia's Tigray
CAIRO — Although new COVID-19 cases in Africa have slowed following an eight-week surge, this “small step forward” could be short-lived, the Regional Office of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday.
Cases on the continent fell by 1.7 percent this week to nearly 282,000, largely due to a sharp decline in South Africa, home to the bulk of reported infections.However, removing the country from the data would show an 18 percent increase or more than 182,000 cases: what the UN agency called a uniquely steep and unbroken nine-week surge.
At peak risk
“Be under no illusions, Africa’s third wave is absolutely not over. This small step forward offers hope and inspiration but must not mask the big picture for Africa,” said Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, WHO Regional Director for...
July 22, 2021
WHO: COVID-19 third wave in Africa not yet over as vaccine inequity threatens all
