Germany has pledged to donate 100,000 doses of the Money Pox (mpox) vaccines to Africa, after France and Austria made similar commitments last week and as the continent is to belatedly receive 10,000 shots in the coming days amid criticism of delays caused by the World Health Organization’s (WTO) red tape. The first batch of […]
When you lack achievements at home, you celebrate your neighbor’s failures. Nothing captures the state-sponsored reaction to Morocco’s AFCON final defeat better than this saying. As Senegal lifted the trophy after a controversial match, thousands of Algerians, mostly young people, poured into the streets, honking car horns, lighting fireworks, and rejoicing as if their own […]
The Ugandan government has announced its plan to construct the country’s 1st — and likely Africa’s 3rd — nuclear facility, the Buyende Nuclear Power Plant, in collaboration with China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) that would assist Uganda in developing capabilities for peaceful use of atomic energy. Currently in Africa, only South Africa has an active […]
