There’s a new COVID lineage called B.1.1.529. It has a genetic profile very different from other circulating variants.
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Politics and Society Omicron is the new COVID kid on the block: five steps to avoid, ten to take immediately
The world needs to learn to live with the virus. And governments must follow the science and don’t distort it for political expediency.
Politics and Society Climate, energy and the African dilemma
Can leaders balance Africa’s potential as a global green giant with its significant dependency on fossil fuels?
Politics and Society Africa’s first mRNA vaccine technology transfer hub gets to work
Afrigen will be a technology transfer and training hub: it shares technology and develops skills specifically around how to produce a safe, effective and affordable mRNA vaccine.
Politics and Society Rwanda and Senegal will host Africa’s first COVID-19 vaccine plants: what’s known so far
For the first time, the drug substance, or active ingredient for a COVID-19 vaccine – in this case mRNA – will be manufactured on the continent.
Politics and Society African leaders must urge G20 to stop Covid-19 vaccines apartheid to save our world
The time has come for African leaders to amplify their voices in a combined effort to demand that G20 leaders prioritize global vaccine access for the majority of nations that desperately want to vaccinate their populations.
Politics and Society COP26: Africa’s challenges must steer the climate change conference
African countries cannot be ignored, or just listened to. Their needs should shape the agenda.
Politics and Society UN report on nutrition gives Africa food for thought
Food security levels are no longer improving globally, and the trend for Africa is especially worrying.
Politics and Society Xenophobia alive in some schools, human rights meeting is told
Matric children of immigrants born in South Africa also battle to get IDs so that they can enrol in tertiary education, but Home Affairs is trying to fix this