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Tigray refugees who fled the conflict in the Ethiopia
MORE than half of Africa’s population must be vaccinated against Covid-19 in the next two to three years to avoid an epidemic, the continent’s top public health official has warned.
Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDCP) director John Nkengasong said today that if it takes four to five years, “the virus will be endemic in our communities.”
Mr Nkengasong said the 60 per cent vaccination target was needed to achieve herd immunity in Africa’s 54 countries.
ROGER McKENZIE shines a light on conflicts in Sudan and Nigeria, where Western powers are intent on laying claim to valuable resources necessary for market dominance
The West’s dangerous pesticide dumping in Africa is threatening biodiversity, population health and food sovereignty, argues ROGER McKENZIE
As the Alliance of Sahel States and southern African nations advance pan-African goals, the African Union must listen and learn rather than parroting the Western line on these positive developments, writes ROGER McKENZIE
ROGER McKENZIE expounds on the motivation that drove him to write a book that anticipates a dawn of a new, fully liberated Africa – the land of his ancestors