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Gabon Upgrades Labs, Reinforces Testing Capacity
The Gabon government has stepped up the country’s capacity to carry out COVID-19 testing by upgrading existing laboratories. Gabon registered…
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#COVID19: Cameroon’s Economic Growth Can Take-Off With Early Acquisition Of Vaccine – AfDB
Cameroon was hit by a -2.4 per cent economic recession rate in 2020 due to the COVID-19 lockdown, but the…
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ACHPR Expresses Concern Over Use Of COVID-19 Restrictions To Shrink Civic Spaces
The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR), in its 31st extraordinary session, which held virtually between 19th and…
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#COVID19: EU Contributes Additional €500 Million To Boost Vaccine Efforts in Low-Income Countries
An additional €500 million has been donated by the European Union (EU) to the COVAX initiative, effectively doubling its contribution…
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Central African Banks Reject Recommendations To Harden Conditions For #COVID19 Loans
Twenty-three per cent of banks in the Central African Economic and Monetary Commission, (CEMAC) have rejected Bank of Central African…
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COVID-19: MSF Calls For Quick Provision Of Vaccines To Southern Africa
Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF), has made an urgent call for the provision of vaccines to slow down the…
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Was Nigeria Disqualified From Global Vaccine Bid? Here’s What We Know
A major Nigerian news outlet, Punch, reported on Saturday that the World Health Organization (WHO), through the COVAX global initiative,…
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COVID-19: Billions To Live In Poverty For Decade, As Inequality Worsened – Oxfam
The UK-based aid group, Oxfam International, warns that it could take more than 10 years for billions of people to…
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How We Sustained Transitional Justice Projects Despite COVID-19 Crisis – ATJLF Director
The world has not been the same since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus in late 2019, with the widespread…
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CEMAC Health Ministers Meet To Choose COVID-19 Vaccine For Their Countries
Health ministers of countries of the Central African Economic and Monetary Commission, (CEMAC), have been meeting by videoconference since Tuesday,…
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