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Rosie Awori (LJI) Africa with its population of 1.3 billion people is racing to secure enough vaccines to do a mass immunization with a goal of vaccinating 60% of its population. However, the new variants may make it difficult for countries to use the AstraZeneca COVID-19, which was the recommendation from the World Health Organization. But the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have suggested that countries without the coronavirus variant dominant in South Africa should go ahead and use the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. The AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine has produced confusing results from the start. Earlier preliminary results from trials …

Robert Kyagulanyi known to friends and foes as Bobi Wine has come a long way from his days as an artist to a Ugandan political activist. The 38-year-old who was first elected as a Member of Parliament in 2017, gained global recognition when he tried to oust President Yoweri Museveni during the recently concluded elections in Uganda. His stab at the presidential seat has as the leader of the National Unity Platform and the new face of Uganda’s opposition shaken up politics in the African nation, which has a population of 45 million. Popularly referred to as the “ghetto president”, …

“This is not an African disease. This is a virus that is a threat to all humanity,”: WHO It is a statement as seemingly ridiculous as it is crucial to efforts in curbing an Ebola outbreak that has killed over two thousand people in Africa already this year. At a September 4 news conference, Gayle Smith, special assistant to U.S. President Barack Obama, and senior director at the National Security Council, tried to underscore the scope of the latest Ebola epidemic. “This is not an African disease. This is a virus that is a threat to all humanity,” she said. …