US On Verge of Launching COVID Vaccinations

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https://im-media.voltron.voanews.com/Drupal/01live-166/2020–12/AP20344826446388.jpg?imwidth=800The Unit­ed States could be hours away from start­ing its COVID-19 vac­ci­na­tion pro­gram.  The U.S. Food and Drug Admin­is­tra­tion report­ed­ly could autho­rize on Fri­day or Sat­ur­day the emer­gency use of a COVID-19 vac­cine pro­duced by U.S. drug mak­er Pfiz­er and Germany’s BioN­Tech.  An FDA advi­so­ry pan­el vot­ed to rec­om­mend approval of the vac­cine late Thurs­day.  With the U.S. on the verge of its inoc­u­la­tion pro­gram, human rights group Amnesty

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Nigeria Warns of Possible New COVID-19 Wave

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https://im-media.voltron.voanews.com/Drupal/01live-166/ap-images/2020/12/5a40c292f75e723b2a9588e8915161f4.jpg?imwidth=800Nige­ria may be on the verge of a sec­ond wave of COVID-19 infec­tions, the health min­is­ter warned Thurs­day, as anoth­er offi­cial said the coun­try expects to roll out a vac­cine by April next year. Osagie Ehanire, speak­ing at a news

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Kenya election violence: Court orders government to pay sex attack survivors

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share­Sharen­o­close­Share pagelinkCopy link­About shar­ing image copy­right­Get­ty Images In what has been called a “land­mark judg­ment”, four women sub­ject­ed to sex­u­al assault in the vio­lence that fol­lowed Kenya’s dis­put­ed 2007 elec­tion are set to receive compensation.

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Black Lives Matter: Activists demand #EndSARS protesters’ release

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share­Sharen­o­close­Share pagelinkCopy link­About shar­ing image copy­right­Get­ty Images Promi­nent Black Lives Mat­ters activists and celebri­ties have writ­ten to Nige­ri­a’s pres­i­dent demand­ing jus­tice over the treat­ment of peo­ple dur­ing protests against police bru­tal­i­ty. The group, which

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UN Official: Sudan Needs World’s Support in Transition to Democracy

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https://im-media.voltron.voanews.com/Drupal/01live-166/2019–04/E257CFB8-982A-4980-BD53-6F9FBF973F5F.jpg?imwidth=800A U.N. offi­cial says Sudan is at a crit­i­cal junc­ture as it tran­si­tions to a democ­ra­cy and needs the sup­port of the inter­na­tion­al com­mu­ni­ty to over­come its myr­i­ad eco­nom­ic chal­lenges. Rose­mary DiCar­lo, U.N. under­­sec­re­­tary-gen­er­al for polit­i­cal and peace­build­ing affairs on

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Cameroon Opposition Leader’s De Facto House Arrest Ends

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https://im-media.voltron.voanews.com/Drupal/01live-166/2020–10/2018–10–08T164838Z_925536943_RC1856213960_RTRMADP_3_CAMEROON-ELECTION.JPG?imwidth=800YAOUNDE — Hun­dreds of sup­port­ers of Cameroon oppo­si­tion leader Mau­rice Kam­to have gath­ered at his home after his months-long de fac­to house arrest sud­den­ly end­ed. Heav­i­ly armed police sta­tioned at his home since Sep­tem­ber 22 left on Tues­day, but authorities

How to reignite Africa’s growth and avoid the need for future debt jubilee

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https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/global_south_africa_cape_town_port.jpg?w=320In ancient times, debt jubilees were cus­tom­ary after wars or dra­mat­ic events. By wip­ing out debts, these jubilees sought to avoid polar­iza­tion and social ten­sions. Today, the mas­sive dis­lo­ca­tions caused by the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic pro­vide jus­ti­fi­ca­tion for the inter­na­tion­al community