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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 […]
News Stream May 05,2020
In Cape Town, a clinical trial began on Monday to test the possible beneficial effects on COVID-19 of the BCG vaccine, prescribed to protect against tuberculosis. “Some observations suggest that BCG has effects on the immune system that we don’t yet fully understand, such as strengthening it against respiratory infections,” Professor Andreas Diacon, head of […]
Speaker of South Africa’s Parliament, Thandi Modise, could land herself behind bars if she fails to appear before the Potchefstroom Regional Court on March 31. The National Council of SPCAs (NSPCA), supported by Advocate Gerrie Nel and AfriForum, has taken Modise to court on charges of animal cruelty after animals suffering from neglect and starvation […]
Is South Africa Abandoning the Polisario? The question was raised just few hours after the South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa, delivered a speech Tuesday in Pretoria to present his program at the head of the African Union that he will be chairing for a year as of this February. Analysts did not give a clear […]
Egypt will pass on the African Union presidency baton to South Africa in February next year, asharq al-Awsat reports. The handover will take place at the 33rd ordinary summit of the continental body in Addis Ababa. The meeting slated January 21 to February 10 will gather under the theme: “Silencing the Guns: Creating Conducive Conditions […]
South Africa has called on home defense industry corporates to reduce their dependence on Saudi, Emirati, Algerian and Omani customers as it holds up arm sales to these countries over their refusal for inspection in compliance with contract agreements, reports say. The National Conventional Arms Control Committee (NCACC), a group of ministers and deputy ministers […]
A strong Moroccan delegation is taking part in the second edition of the Africa Investment Forum, or the African Davos as it is called, to present to African and international investors the assets of Morocco, and also to expound the key role it plays in the promotion of the continent’s development. On the opening day […]
The accreditation of Morocco’s Ambassador to Pretoria Youssef Amrani has been welcomed by South African analysts and policy makers as a new chapter in bilateral ties. Amrani presented his credentials to South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday in a move that was hailed by analysts as a step forward to foster bilateral ties and […]
Morocco and South Africa turned the page on 15 years of lower diplomatic representation with the accreditation of Youssef Amrani as Morocco’s ambassador to Pretoria, a move that puts bilateral relations on track of fruitful economic cooperation, a South African paper said. The move came after Rabat and Pretoria decided to upgrade their bilateral ties […]