Presently, 99% of the vaccines that Africa as a continent uses, are manufactured outside of Africa. However, German biotechnology company, BioNTech, is seeking to change that. In June 2022 the ground was broken for a fully modernized mRNA vaccine manufacturing facility in Kigali, the Rwandan capital, which will be...
Equatorial Guinea has quarantined 200 people in the the Northern Province of Kié-Ntem after eight people died in two adjacent communities in the Nsok Nsomo district from hemorrhagic fevers connected to an unidentified illness. Both state government officials and the WHO are working to identify samples, with additional samples...
After another successful coup in September of 2022, the military junta in the small African nation of Burkina Faso has rapidly diminished relations with the French government, historical allies in the fight against terrorism in the region, to the point where France is being asked to leave.
On Monday, Burkinabe...
« We have sufficiently alerted to the ongoing genocide and condemn the silence of humanitarian and human rights organizations. We received more than 5,000 families in Bwiza fleeing the government coalition that is killing them. Enough is enough » -A tweet from both the M23 and Lawrence Kanyuka, a...
Efforts for peace continue to be made in the Congo. On the 23rd of November in Luanda, a peace conference was held in an attempt to solve the crisis ongoing in DRC’s east. At quick glance it may look like the conference, and the subsequent conference held in Nairobi...
Throughout the nation, including the capital city of Bangui, fighting has broken out between the Coalition of Patriots for Change (CPC) and the Central Africa military (Forces armées centrafricaines; FACA). CPC forces attacked FACA positions primarily near Bossangoa in Ouham, but reports indicate fighting has spread throughout the country....