By Reuters Staff1 Min ReadFILE PHOTO: John Nkengasong, director of the African Union's Centers for Disease Control, speaks at a news conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, January 28, 2020.... REUTERS/ Tiksa Negeri GENEVA( Reuters)-Less than 3.5% of Africans are vaccinated against COVID-19, far short of its official target of 60%, John Nkengasong, director of Africa’s Centers for Disease Control, said on Tuesday. World Health Organization head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at the same briefing

By Reuters Staff1 Min ReadROTTERDAM( Reuters)-The container ship Ever Given, which got stuck in the Suez Canal for six days in March, arrived in the Dutch port of Rotterdam on Thursday after being released by authorities in Egypt.It was scheduled to dock at Rotterdam’s ECT Delta terminal for unloading until Aug.... 3 before departing for Felixstowe, England, the port said. The vessel, one of the world’s largest container ships, became jammed across the canal in high winds on March 23, halting t

NAIROBI, Sept 14( Reuters)-Kenya's central bank has capped the amount of dollars that money transfer companies can sell to an individual customer at$ 100, 000 per day, a central bank letter to the firms shows. The firms, which provide cash remittance services to those living abroad, will be required to sell any hard currency amounts exceeding$ 100, 000 only to commercial banks, the regulator said in the letter dated Wednesday and seen by Reuters on Thursday. The move was caused by an observation

MOSCOW, Nov 17( Reuters)-Russia's agriculture minister said on Friday that Moscow had begun free shipments of grain totalling up to 200, 000 tonnes to six African countries, as promised by President Vladimir Putin in July.In a statement posted on Telegram, Dmitry Patrushev said that ships headed for Burkina Faso and Somalia had already left Russian ports, and that additional shipments to Eritrea, Zimbabwe, Mali and the Central African Republic would soon follow. Putin had promised to deliver fre

By Fayaz Bukhari2 Min ReadFILE PHOTO: Indian Central Reserve Police Force( CRPF) personnel check the bags of a scooterist as part of security checking in Srinagar, October 12, 2021.... REUTERS/ Danish Ismail SRINAGAR( Reuters)-Indian troops have killed seven suspected militants in Kashmir this week, including a district commander, in an offensive following recent killings by militants, police said on Wednesday. Security forces said they had also killed two others suspected of helping the milita

By Reuters Staff2 Min ReadGABORONE( Reuters)-About 15, 000 people in Botswana will not be able to get their second dose of AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine in time and will be vaccinated with either Pfizer or Moderna, the health ministry said on Friday. FILE PHOTO: A medical worker prepares to dilute a vial of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at a coronavirus disease( COVID-19) vaccination center in Singapore March 8, 2021.... REUTERS/ Edgar Su Botswana, which is purchasing the vaccines from AstraZenec

By Reuters Staff3 Min ReadCONAKRY( Reuters)-The soldiers who seized power in Guinea over the weekend have consolidated their takeover with the installation of military provincial governors, Guinean media reported on Tuesday. FILE PHOTO: Special forces members take position during an uprising that led to the toppling of president Alpha Conde in Kaloum neighbourhood of Conakry, Guinea September 5, 2021.... REUTERS/ Saliou Samb West African leaders have threatened sanctions over the overthrow of P

By Saliou Samb3 Min ReadCONAKRY( Reuters)-The soldiers who seized power in Guinea over the weekend have consolidated their takeover with the installation of army officers at the top of Guinea’s eight regions and various administrative districts. FILE PHOTO: Special forces members take position during an uprising that led to the toppling of president Alpha Conde in Kaloum neighbourhood of Conakry, Guinea September 5, 2021.... REUTERS/ Saliou Samb West African countries have threatened sanctions