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US Donates 3.5 Million Pfizer Vaccine Doses To Nigeria

  • October 13, 2021

The United States is sending more than 3.5 million doses of the two-shot Pfizer vaccine to Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, a White House official told VOA on Tuesday. “We are sharing these doses not to secure favors or extract concessions,” the official said. “Our vaccines do not come with strings attached. We are doing […]

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Young Democrat Union Of Africa Awards Malawi President

  • October 12, 2021

The Young Democrat Union of Africa (YDUA) under the leadership of its President Louisa Atta-Agyemang has conferred an honorary award for visionary leadership on the Malawian President, Dr Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera for his role in ensuring food security and rule of law in Malawi. The conferment of the award took place at the Presidential Palace of […]

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Burkina Faso Opens Trial On 1987 Sankara Assassination

  • October 12, 2021

The trial of 14 men, including a former president, has begun in Burkina Faso over the assassination of the country’s revered revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara 34 years ago. Former President Blaise Compaore and 13 others face an array of charges in the death of Sankara, described by his followers as the African Che Guevara. The […]