SAN FRANCISCO — Despite doubts about the effectiveness of China’s COVID-19 vaccines, the global vaccine shortage is giving China an international soft power boost.China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced this week via the official Xinhua News Agen…
GENEVA — The World Health Organization is warning that COVID-19 vaccine export bans and hoarding by wealthy countries will prolong the pandemic in Africa, preventing recovery from the disease in the rest of the world.While more than 60% of the U.S., Eu…
ABUJA, NIGERIA — The U.N. Children’s Fund in Nigeria said at least 1 million Nigerian children could miss school this year because of insecurity, as schools in the north of the country have been targeted by armed groups in a series of mass kidnappings …
PRETORIA, Sept 18 (NNN-AGENCIES) — South Africa’s top court has ruled that former President Jacob Zuma had failed in his bid to have his 15-month jail sentence for failing to attend a corruption inquiry overturned.The sentence was handed down in June a…
