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President Joe Biden's $1.9tn (£1.4tn) relief plan to help Americans during the Covid pandemic has been approved in the House of Representatives. The vote was along partisan lines. Two Democrats joined Republicans - who see it as too…

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said the next supplies of the AstraZeneca/Oxford jab will reach Côte d’Ivoire later this week. Six hundred thousand doses of the Covid-19 vaccine from the UN-partnered COVAX initiative arrived in…

South Africa announced plans on Wednesday to allocate $688 million for vaccines and over $750 million to boost youth employment in a bid to tackle the economic devastation caused by the coronavirus pandemic. "This campaign allows us to…

Senegal kicked off its wider Covid-19 vaccination campaign on Wednesday, after an official launch ceremony the day before, when dozens of officials were vaccinated to demonstrate its safety. Around 100,000 people are expected to be…

Rwanda National Police (RNP) has dismissed about 386 police officers over gross misconduct in its latest bid to clean up law enforcement. The officers, including 18 senior sergeants, 104 sergeants, corporals, and constables were sacked…

An armed group in eastern Congo, accused by the government of carrying out an ambush on a United Nations convoy in which Italy’s ambassador and two other people were killed, has denied any involvement in the attack. Congo’s interior…

Former South African President Jacob Zuma’s trial on corruption, money laundering and racketeering charges will begin on May 17 2021, after the courts rejected his applications to have the case dismissed. Zuma who was not present in…

The Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AU) Moussa Faki Mahamat said The Covid-19 crisis is an opportunity for African countries to reflect and also revisit some of their development strategies. He said that Africa must,…

Ugandan politician Robert Kyagulanyi, popularly known as Bobi Wine, has instructed his lawyers to withdraw the presidential poll petition he filed at the Supreme Court, challenging President Yoweri  Museveni's victory in the January 14…

The Democratic Republic of Congo’s government has said that Italian Ambassador to Kinshasa, Luca Attanasio, was killed by Rwandan Hutu rebels. The Italian envoy was killed on Monday in an ambush near Goma, in the province of North Kivu.…