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ICU nurse Sandra Lindsay first American to receive COVID-19 vaccine

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5 years ago

Sandra Lindsay, an ICU nurse has become the first New Yorker and American to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19.

Trump does quid pro quo with Sudan

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5 years ago

Outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump has lifted the designation of Sudan as a state sponsor of terrorism, in exchange for…

Google services including Gmail, YouTube suffer outage

Michael Adesina

5 years ago

Google services including Gmail, YouTube, Google Drive and Google Classroom suffered a widespread outage Monday, affecting many users and employers.

Final loss to Trump; US Electoral College set to confirm Biden

Michael Adesina

5 years ago

Long a mere formality, a vote on Monday by members of the Electoral College to formally recognise Joe Biden as…

Russia hits back as US confirms cyber attack

Michael Adesina

5 years ago

Russia’s embassy in the US has hit back after the US government confirmed Sunday that its computer networks had been…

Ghana election: NDC releases evidence Akufo-Addo should not have been winner

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5 years ago

Ghana's opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has pressed on with its charge that the result of the 7 December election…

COVID-19 kills ESwatini prime minister Ambrose Dlamini

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5 years ago

COVID-19 has killed Ambrose Dlamini, the prime minister of Eswatini, Africa’s last absolute monarchy.

South Korea shuts schools over COVID-19 explosion

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5 years ago

South Korea ordered schools to close from Tuesday in the capital Seoul and surrounding areas as it battles its worst…

Ethiopian, Sudanese leaders hold regional security talks

Taiwo Okanlawon

5 years ago

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and visiting Sudanese counterpart, Abdullah Hamdok, on Sunday called for an emergency summit of the…

New Zealand to re-open to Australia, Cook Islands next year

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5 years ago

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Monday that New Zealand is working to establish two-way “travel bubbles” with…

538 Electors confirm Biden as 46th U.S. president today

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5 years ago

Electors will gather in state capitals across the United States today to formally vote for Joe Biden as the 46th…

Benin records 547 pregnancy cases in secondary schools

Taiwo Okanlawon

5 years ago

The Beninese news agency, ABP has reported that more than 500 pregnancies were recorded in secondary schools of Benin’s northeastern…

British novelist John le Carre dies at 89

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5 years ago

British author, David Cornwell, better known by his pen name John le Carre, has died at the age of 89,…

Missile strike? Oil ship explodes in Saudi Arabia port city of Jeddah

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5 years ago

An explosion rocked an oil ship off Saudi Arabia’s port city of Jeddah on the Red Sea, with the owners…

Ethiopia PM Abiy visits troubled Tigray region

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5 years ago

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has arrived in Mekelle, the regional capital of the troubled Tigray region, a senior Cabinet…

COVID-19: Algerian President to return from Germany after recovery

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5 years ago

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has announced that he “will soon return home” from his recovery process in Germany following contracting…

COVID-19: I’m not scheduled to be vaccinated – Trump

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5 years ago

Outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday night said he was not scheduled to be vaccinated against the Coronavirus (COVID-19)…

Biden orders Trump White House deep-cleaned of virus

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5 years ago

U.S. President-elect Joe Biden was reported to have ordered a deep cleaning of the White House after Trump vacated the…

Kenya grants citizenship to Zimbabwean missionaries

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5 years ago

Kenya is to grant citizenship to 1,600 stateless people from the Shona community who came to Kenya as missionaries.

U.S records highest COVID-19 caseload

Nimot Sulaimon

5 years ago

More than 16 million people have been confirmed to have caught the coronavirus in the United States since the start…

Trump now deposed king ranting: William Barr

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5 years ago

Outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump has become a 'deposed king ranting', according to the opinion of Attorney General William Barr.

Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms rejects Biden job offer

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5 years ago

Keisha Lance Bottoms, the African-American mayor of Atlanta Georgia has rejected a cabinet job offer from U.S. President-elect Joe Biden.

COVID-19 recoveries in Africa surpass 2 million

Nimot Sulaimon

5 years ago

Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said on Saturday that over two million people have recovered from…

Ex-Namibian leader Sam Nujoma overcomes COVID

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5 years ago

Namibia’s founding president Sam Nujoma has been discharged from hospital where he was being treated after testing positive for COVID-19,…

Fauci assures African Americans on COVID-19 vaccine

Nimot Sulaimon

5 years ago

U.S. top infectious disease expert, Anthony Fauci has assured the African-American community regarding the safety of the recently authorised COVID-19…

COVID-19 vaccines: WHO seeks stepped-up funding for poorer countries

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5 years ago

The World Health Organization (WHO) chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said on Friday that there is an urgent need to address…

COVID-19: Christmas celebrations could turn to tears – WHO chief

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5 years ago

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday cautioned that Christmas celebrations could turn to tears if people fail to keep…

UK, 14 African countries to enter trade agreements

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5 years ago

The United Kingdom’s (UK) Department for International Trade says new trade agreements will come into force in January for the…

U.S. to roll out Pfizer-BioNTech COVID vaccine next week

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5 years ago

The United States will likely begin from Monday, mass vaccination of its people against COVID-19, following FDA approval for the…

Trump bashes U.S. Supreme Court for lacking ‘courage, wisdom’

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5 years ago

Outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump railed against the country's topmost court for dismissing a lawsuit by Texas attorney-general, seeking to…

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