Africa

After Johnson & Johnson allied itself with Aspen, it is Pfizer / BioNTech's turn to partner with a South African company to produce its anticovid vaccine. The manufacturer has signed an agreement with the Biovac Institute, a semi-state company based in Cape Town. This will be the first time a Messenger RNA vaccine has been produced in Africa. Target: 100 million doses per year by 2023. Production…

In Côte d'Ivoire, the long-awaited political meeting will take place next Tuesday. President Alassane Ouattara invites his predecessor Laurent Gbagbo to meet him at the Presidential Palace on July 27. Since the former head of state returned last month after his acquittal at the ICC, the country has remained closed following the announcement of this first meeting, which is intended to mark an important…

The chairman of the main opposition party, Chadema, was arrested on the night of Wednesday, July 21, 2021. Freeman Mbowe was picked up by ten of his comrades in a police attack on his hotel in Mwanza, where they planned to organize a demonstration demanding constitutional reform. An interpellation that revives the memory of the authoritarian abuses of the late President Magufuli. For the Tanzanian opposition, repression continues. The Chadema party accuses the new president Samia Suluhu Hassan of reproducing the same…

This bill, which was adopted on Tuesday, July 20, 2021, plans to return the money embezzled by the heads of state and their relatives who are facing legal proceedings in France. The amounts donated, often several million euros, will fund development measures. Refund badly received goodstakes time it is now possible. In order…

Morocco is pointed out in the Pegasus scandal and condemns a false media campaign. The country is one of the top states that since the beginning of the week has been indexed by a consortium of 17 international newspapers for its use of Israeli surveillance software. The case took an even more embarrassing turn with the revelation that the number of French politicians, including one of President…

This last tribute, Wednesday, July 21, 2021, will be held in Notre-Dame du Congo Cathedral in Kinshasa. A celebration in the presence of Presidents Félix Tshisekedi and Denis Sassou-Nguesso. The body of the late cardinal in the DRC must then be buried in the cathedral along with his predecessors. With our special correspondent…

Since the revelations of the Pegasus project, Morocco has denied being a customer of the Israeli company NSO, which markets this spyware. A group of international media has been revealed since Sunday, in sections, the conclusions of the surveys conducted on the basis of a list of 50,000 numbers potentially targeted by the software worldwide.…

NAIROBI, Kenya - A contingent of Djiboutian troops would have moved towards the common border with Ethiopia in the north, Axadle has learned, in an attempt to thwart a possible threat from the Tigray Defense Forces. , which is embroiled in a conflict with the authorities in Addis Ababa. TDF fight with Ethiopian National Defense Forces following the latter's operations in the Tigray region, which left thousands dead and millions displaced. ENDF has been temporarily withdrawn from Tigray but TDF accuses them of blocking…

This year, the Tabaski festival is characterized by the pandemic, but in Chad the most important problem is the price of sheep, which has risen sharply in the capital's markets compared with previous years. So this Tuesday, the morning of Tabaski in Chad, Ndjamenois began to organize to enjoy the party despite tight budgets. as…

With this "stabbing attempt" against the president of the transition, "it is a Tabaski who will undoubtedly remain engraved in the collective memory", warns from the beginning. The Mali Journal. An attempt to attack Bamako's great mosque and which "caused a stir among our countrymen", writes The rise.The magazine delivers the story of the events. "On this day of the celebration of the feast of Eid el-Kebir, we can read, the…