Published by Al-Araby Turkey will send 15 million Covid-19 vaccine doses to Africa, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Saturday at a major summit of the continent’s leaders, adding that the low vaccination rates there were a blot on humanity. Ankara has invested heavily in developing trade and diplomatic ties with the world’s poorest continent […]
YAOUNDÉ, CAMEROON — Separatists fighting to create an English-speaking state in western Cameroon have described as grossly one-sided a rights group report says that separatists attack schools, train children as fighters and have deprived at least 700,0…
The head of the World Health Organization says the continuing surge of COVID-19 cases is a result of the unequal distribution of vaccines.Speaking at the First International Conference on Public Health in Africa, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghe…
GENEVA — A new cycle of intercommunal clashes over scarce resources in Cameroon have killed and injured scores of people and sent at least 100,000 fleeing from their homes.Just last week, the U.N. refugee agency reported intercommunal clashes that erup…
CAIRO — Egyptian health authorities said they have identified the country’s first cases of the highly transmissible omicron variant of the coronavirus.Three people were found to have the variant among 26 travelers who tested positive for coronavirus at…
GENEVA — Marking International Migrants Day, the United Nations reports hostility and xenophobia are growing against migrants. It warns the stigmatization and marginalization of migrants amid a raging pandemic is putting many lives at risk.U.N. agencie…