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CORONAVIRUS: WHO raises the alert level.
Faced with the spread of the new coronavirus, the director of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, described the epidemic as...
MOROCCO – Bill to legalize the therapeutic use of cannabis under review
The Moroccan government is studying, this Thursday, March 04, 2021, a bill on the legal use of cannabis. A decision that is...
SENEGAL – Six girls victims of an excision that went wrong
It is in Boune, in the department of Dakar that six girls aged between 7 and 9 years were victims, this...
MADAGASCAR: Rising healing of Covid-19 diseases
The Covid-19 Operational Command Centre announced that 62 patients were cured in just three days in Madagascar. The healing curve is therefore on the...
GUINEA: Ban on chicha in Guinea: head of bar owners denounces measure
The ministries in charge of the Budget, Trade and Security announced yesterday Wednesday, January 6, 2021 via a joint decree, the...
COVID-19 – Senegal could close its borders again
The President of the Republic of Senegal, Macky Sall, is considering closing the borders to deal with a third wave of...
SENEGAL: The hospital ship Africa Mercy has arrived.
Mercy Ships landed on August 14, 2019 at Mole 1 of the Dakar Autonomous Port for a period of ten months. The Africa Mercy...
KENYA: Country seeks 400 volunteers to test covid-19 vaccine
ZE-AFRICANEWS - At Nairobie, researchers are looking for 400 volunteers to participate in a clinical test of a candidate coronavirus vaccine.This vaccine is developed...
CORONAVIRUS : “Millions of covid-19 deaths in Africa”: Simon’s salty response to UN António...
The Senegalese rapper-activist and member of the Y’en marre movement, Simon Kouka made a scathing reply to the secretary general of the United Nations,...
UGANDA: Start of first clinical trials of a vaccine against Covid-19
Uganda has started the first tests of a vaccine against Covid-19. The announcement was made by President Yoweri Museveni in an...
LIBERIA: Lassa fever makes 21 dead.
The Lassa fever epidemic has begun to spread in Liberia since January 2019. Health authorities in that country reported 21 of the 25 people...
RAMADAN: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made a statement for muslims.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made the following statement(declaration) today to underline Ramadan:
AFRIQUE : COVID-19 compromises essential health services in Africa
Brazzaville, November 5, 2020 – The COVID-19 pandemic has dealt a severe blow to key health services in Africa, raising concerns...
AFRICA: 30 million doses of Covax vaccine expected by March
All 54 countries on the African continent have expressed a particular interest in access to vaccines, through the Covax mechanism, as...
AFRICA: $12 billion in funding for Covid-19 vaccination
It’s time for the vaccine race. The virulence of the second wave of contamination and the new variant of the coronavirus are...
IVORY COAST – There is «no evidence» of the presence of Ebola virus according...
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Tuesday, August 31, 2021 that there was no Ebola virus in Côte d'Ivoire. New...
HEALTH – Health Progress at Risk
The head of the UN warns states. Progress in health is in jeopardy. He said so on the margins of the...
SENEGAL: “Let’s respect the measures barriers!” By Mary Teuw Niane
Dear friends, dear friends,The epidemic of the covid19 corona virus continues to expand. Slowly, it is spreading and growing on the African continent. In...
SEYCHELLES: Start of the vaccination against the coronavirus
The Seychelles archipelago began vaccination against the coronavirus on Sunday 10th January. President Wavel Ramkalawan was the first to be vaccinated,...
NIGERIA: Couple Who Tried To Conceive For 17 Years Welcomes Sextuplets.
A Nigerian couple who had been trying to conceive for 17 years had their baby dreams come true last month — times six! On May...
SENEGAL: 14 new cases of COVID-19.
According to press release 26 of March 27, 2020 from the Ministry of Health, 13 new cases of Covid-19 are registered in the country.
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SOUTH AFRICA: Astra/Zeneca vaccine temporarily suspended
South Africa has decided to suspend the vaccine developed by the Astra/Zeneca-Oxford laboratories following a study by the University of Witwatersrand...
ALGERIA: Coronavirus Algeria: Contamination on the rise among health care workers
For more than a week, coronavirus contamination (Covid-19) has been on the rise in Algeria, reaching a daily record this Wednesday. By Algeria 360
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SENEGAL – 400 cases of measles recorded
Measles is back in force, with more than "400 cases recorded nationally". It is a revelation of Doctor Boly Diop, responsible...
DR CONGO: Confinement of Ibanda: The population must make its provisions
The authorities have decided, the municipality of Ibanda de Bukavu will enter into confinement for three days between 1 and 3 June 2020. A...
SENEGAL: AIDS wreaks havoc among young people.
Doctor Safiatou Thiam, Executive Secretary of the National AIDS Control Council (CNLS) declared, this Wednesday, January 8, 2020 on the occasion of the 7th...
ALBINISM – 13 June: a day to reaffirm the humanity of albinos
June 13 is International Albinism Awareness Day. It is an important day to close the gaps of ignorance that surround albinism...
AFRICA: African Union has 270 million doses of the anti-Covid vaccine
The African Union has acquired 270 million doses of the vaccine developed by Pfizer-BioNTech, AstraZeneca, India, and Johnson & Johnson. The announcement...
SOUTH AFRICA – Scientists suspect new variant of Covid-19
The National Institute for Communicable Diseases of South Africa (NICD) said in a statement on Monday, 30 August 2021, that the country’s...
ALGERIA will defeat the pandemic in the near future according to minister Benbouzid :...
The mask is one of the most important means of dealing with Covid-19. The Minister of Population Health and Hospitaller Reform Abderahmane Benbouzid called...
SENEGAL: Rapper and activist Karim Xrum Xax is seriously ill.
Abdou Karim Gueye, aka Karim Xrum Xax is in critical condition. He is known for his commitment and his stance especially to denounce the...
SENEGAL – Ndèye Khady Ndiaye’s lawyers appealed in the Sweet Beauty case
Another twist in the Sweet Beauty case! Ndèye Khady Ndiaye’s lawyers have just filed an appeal this Wednesday, 07 2023. The...
SENEGAL: Dr Sokhna: “In Senegal, there are 04 types of Coronavirus circulating.”
Dr Cheikh Sokhna, Director of the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), spoke on the progress of research on Coronavirus mutations. The various...
SENEGAL – Delta variant wreaks havoc in the country
Senegal is facing a third wave of contamination that is very virulent. The Delta variant has brought down health structures, and...
CORONAVIRUS: Strong measures taken around the world.
The cornavirus that emerged in Wuhan, China has now reached indescribable proportions. It has become a pandemic that worries the whole world. Governments and...
