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COVID-19: First clinical trial of a vaccine underway in South Africa

South Africa has just started clinical trial of a vaccine against Covid-19, the first on the continent. This candidate vaccine has been developed by Oxford University’s Jenner Institute and is already being tested in humans in Great Britain.   The vaccine trial started on June 24 in Johannesburg, the commercial capital, and Pretoria, the national […]

U.S. deadline given to Polisario to comply expires, paving the way for its designation terrorist organization

U.S. congressmen Joe Wilson (Republican) and Jimmy Panetta (Democrat) have introduced in June a legislation designating Algeria-backed Polisario militias a foreign terrorist organization. On August 24, the 90-day deadline stipulated by H.R. 4119: “Polisario Front Terrorist Designation Act” expired, setting in motion the legal process for branding the Polisario separatist group as a Foreign Terrorist […]

Ethiopia accused of committing genocide during Tigray war — report

There is a compelling evidence that Ethiopia and its military allies committed genocidal acts against Tigrayans during the two-year armed conflict in the Horn of Africa country, a new report has concluded. Published on Tuesday (4 May) by the US-based New Lines Institute, the 120-page report quotes multiple, widespread and credible independent accounts that Ethiopian […]