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 Global health adviser and a lecturer at teaching fellow at University College London’s School of Pharmacy,  Oksana Pyzik, says, vaccine inequality will likely lead to more coronavirus variants as the pandemic is prolonged, and that a…

Suspected Omicron case found in Germany A minister in the German state of Hesse said that the Omicron COVID variant had very probably arrived in Germany. “Last night several Omicron-typical mutations were found in a…

Sixty-one people who arrived in Amsterdam on two flights from South Africa have tested positive for Covid-19, Dutch officials say. They have been placed in isolation at a hotel near Schiphol airport. They were among some 600…

US joins EU in restricting flights from southern Africa due to new coronavirus variant. The World Health Organization, WHO, earlier declared the new variant to be "of concern," naming it Omicron. From Monday, only US…

The Ethiopian government has announced new restrictions on reporting the war, in which Tigrayan rebels are said to be continuing their advance towards the capital. In a warning to news outlets and social media users, it has…

A Kenyan lawyer has filed a petition challenging the health minister's directive to bar unvaccinated Kenyans from accessing basic services from 21 December. It comes amid record turnout for vaccination in different parts of the…

The World Health Organization says only one in four health workers in Africa has been fully vaccinated against Covid-19, leaving the bulk of the workforce on the front lines of the pandemic dangerously exposed. It says "in…

Thousands of people in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, and other cities have held protests to keep up the pressure on the country's military leaders. In the capital's twin city of Omdurman, security forces fired tear gas at…

A Danish frigate has killed four pirates in waters south of Nigeria in an operation to protect shipping in the Gulf of Guinea, the Danish military said on Thursday. The Esbern Snare, deployed last month to the Gulf of Guinea amid…

The Gambia’s final report of a probe into alleged human rights violations during the 22-year iron-fist rule of former President Yayha Jammeh is set to be handed to the government on Thursday. The release had previously been…