JOHANNESBURG( Reuters)-The World Health Organization said on Thursday it does not expect immediate impact on vaccine supply to Africa due to the fighting in Ukraine, and that Russia's Sputnik COVID-19 vaccines were a minimal component of imports to the continent." In the short term, there will be very little impact on the vaccine supply overall in the region," Richard Mihigo, the programme area manager for WHO Africa, told an online news conference.( Reporting by George Obulutsa and James Machar

ABIDJAN( Reuters)-Ivory Coast Prime Minister Patrick Achi tabled his resignation and that of his government on Wednesday, President Alassane Ouattara said during a cabinet meeting during which he accepted the resignation. The President did not provide reasons for the resignation but said he would name a new Prime Minister next week who would then present around 30 new ministers. Achi was not immediately available for comment. The 66-year-old was appointed Prime Minister in March last year.... (

KAMPALA( Reuters)-An elephant trampled to death a Colombian researcher who was studying chimpanzees in Kibali National Park in western Uganda, authorities said. Sebastian Ramirez Amaya, who was at Arizona State University( ASU) in the United States, was killed on Sunday while conducting research in the forest with his assistant." They came across a lone elephant which charged at them, forcing the duo to run in different directions," Uganda Wildlife Authority said in a statement late on Monday."

KANO, Nigeria( Reuters)-Gunmen killed eight people and kidnapped 38 others in an attack on two churches in the northern state of Kaduna on Sunday, an official from the Christian Association of Nigeria( CAN) said on Monday, weeks after a similar deadly attack in the south west. The attack occurred during the morning service of a Catholic and Baptist church on Sunday, Reverend Danlami Gajere, CAN chairman for Kasuwan Magani ward in Kaduna state, told Reuters by phone. The state police spokesperson

DAKAR( Reuters)-Operational costs of the United Nation's World Food Programme( WFP) will increase by$ 136 million in West Africa this year because of the global rise in food and fuel prices driven by the war in Ukraine, the agency said on Thursday. The additional costs will hamper attempts to relieve a spiralling food crisis in the region fuelled by conflict, drought, pandemic-linked border closures and the impact of Ukraine's crisis on food prices and availability. The WFP was already strugglin

In the same month, South Africa's top court dismissed a bid by him to overturn the sentence.... The protests widened into looting and an outpouring of general anger over the hardship and inequality that persist 27 years after the end of apartheid.... More than 300 people were killed and thousands of businesses pillaged and razed. The Department of Correctional Services said it was studying the judgement and in due course will make further pronouncements.( Reporting by Nqobile DludlaWriting by

By Edwin Waita2 Min ReadNAIROBI( Reuters)-A 16-year-old British schoolboy who is on a quest to become the youngest person to fly around the world solo, landed his small plane in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, on Wednesday. Slideshow( 5 images) Mack Rutherford, who started his journey near the Bulgarian capital Sofia in March, is looking to clinch a Guinness World record currently held by compatriot Travis Ludlow, who was 18 when he completed a circumnavigation last year.“ I’m hoping, with this journe

In an emergency for the whole world, when Africa is actually taken hostage.... Hostage of those who started the war against our state," Zelenskiy said in a video speech to the Bureau of the Assembly of the African Union." This war may seem very distant to you and your countries.... But catastrophically rising food prices have already brought it home to millions of African families." Moscow rejects accusations it is deliberately blocking grain exports from Ukraine and says global food and fuel

DAKAR( Reuters)-The World Bank said on Tuesday it has signed deals to finance four projects in Senegal worth a total of$ 495 million to help improve education, electricity, economic development and road access to rural areas. The West African nation of around 16.7 million, considered lower-middle-income by the World Bank, was hit hard by border closures during the pandemic that affected tourism and delayed oil and gas extractions. Most of the coastal country was struggling with unemployment even

ADDIS ABABA( Reuters)-Ethiopia's military is planning to enter the Tigray regional capital of Mekelle and" eliminate" rebellious forces, a top military official said late on Friday amid diplomatic efforts to end conflict in the country's north.... " Tigray is part of Ethiopia and no force will stop us from entering.... The main thing here is we have stopped because we have to prepare ourselves....