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NSSA unveils grocery scheme for pensioners
NSSA unveils grocery scheme for pensioners

NATIONAL Social Security Authority (NSSA) has launched a discounted grocery scheme in partnership with SPAR for pensioners aged 60 years and above.

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Disparity in rates worries banking group
Disparity in rates worries banking group

THE disparity between the official and parallel market exchange rates is a cause for concern given its potential destabilising effect upon correction of prices, pan African banking group ABC Holdings says.

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Self-taught electrician powers up Malawian village
Self-taught electrician powers up Malawian village

LILONGWE. – Fifteen years ago, when darkness used to fall in Yobe Nkosi, a remote village in northern Malawi, children did their school homework by candlelight: there was no electricity.

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Ariston seeks approval to dispose of Claremont stake
Ariston seeks approval to dispose of Claremont stake

AGRICULTURAL concern, Ariston Holdings, says it is now seeking regulatory approval for a transaction to dispose of its 50 percent stake in Claremont Orchards to a Dutch company, Tuinbouw Zonder Grenzen BV.

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School heads to discuss way forward
School heads to discuss way forward

THE National Association of Secondary School Heads and National Association of Primary School Heads will be discussing the way forward for schools sport.

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Massmart to sell 14 Game stores in East, West Africa to stem losses
Massmart to sell 14 Game stores in East, West Africa to stem losses

JOHANNESBURG. — Massmart is disposing of all its general merchandise Game stores in West and East Africa to stem losses in that struggling business, chief executive Mitch Slape said on Friday, after the Walmart majority-owned retailer reported a narrower half-year loss.

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NAIROBI. – A prominent Kenyan pathologist has warned of “vaccine apartheid” in Africa amid the slow rollout of Covid-19 jabs, echoing condemnation from senior World Health Organization (WHO) officials. Less than 2 percent of Africa’s population of 1,3 billion has been fully vaccinated against Covid-19. Vaccine shortages continue to plague many countries and hospitals are seeing more deaths because of Covid-19. “It is only two countries in the whole of Africa that have the capacity to produce vaccines, that is South Africa and Senegal. You find countries like Kenya and Egypt, they do have the technical capacity but they never really invested in it,” said Ahmed Kalebi, independent consultant pathologist and founder of Lancet Kenya. James Nderitu, a 58-year-old resident of the Kenyan capital Nairobi, is receiving his first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine. He believes that if everything had gone to plan, he should be on his second already. “I would therefore like to urge the European countries that have the vaccine to assist us. Instead of vaccinating children, they should stop being selfish and help the African countries so that we can get vaccinated,” said Nderitu. Matshidiso Moeti, Africa director for the WHO, recently lashed out at Western nations, accusing them of hoarding vaccines when there should be a more even distribution of jabs. The continent saw 248,000 new confirmed cases last week, with at least 28 countries seeing a surge in infections driven by the Delta variant. “This is a preventable tragedy if African countries can get fair access to the vaccines,” Moeti told reporters. But Kalebi said it is not as simple as blaming Western nations for Africa’s woeful vaccination rate. “In a country like Kenya, I think we don’t just have our priorities right. Because you find that a lot of the times money will be poured into politics, money will be poured into other things but health. We are waiting for donations,” he said. More than 7,3 million cases, including more than 186 000 deaths, have been confirmed across the continent, and health systems are straining to provide medical oxygen and other care. According to some health experts, if Africa continues to proceed at such a slow pace with its vaccination programme, it could prolong the pandemic. WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus recently said it was “unconscionable” that some countries are now offering booster shots “while so many people remain unprotected”. – Al Jazeera.
NAIROBI. – A prominent Kenyan pathologist has warned of “vaccine apartheid” in Africa amid the slow rollout of Covid-19 jabs, echoing condemnation from senior World Health Organization (WHO) officials. Less than 2 percent of Africa’s population of 1,3 billion has been fully vaccinated against Covid-19. Vaccine shortages continue to plague many countries and hospitals are seeing more deaths because of Covid-19. “It is only two countries in the whole of Africa that have the capacity to produce vaccines, that is South Africa and Senegal. You find countries like Kenya and Egypt, they do have the technical capacity but they never really invested in it,” said Ahmed Kalebi, independent consultant pathologist and founder of Lancet Kenya. James Nderitu, a 58-year-old resident of the Kenyan capital Nairobi, is receiving his first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine. He believes that if everything had gone to plan, he should be on his second already. “I would therefore like to urge the European countries that have the vaccine to assist us. Instead of vaccinating children, they should stop being selfish and help the African countries so that we can get vaccinated,” said Nderitu. Matshidiso Moeti, Africa director for the WHO, recently lashed out at Western nations, accusing them of hoarding vaccines when there should be a more even distribution of jabs. The continent saw 248,000 new confirmed cases last week, with at least 28 countries seeing a surge in infections driven by the Delta variant. “This is a preventable tragedy if African countries can get fair access to the vaccines,” Moeti told reporters. But Kalebi said it is not as simple as blaming Western nations for Africa’s woeful vaccination rate. “In a country like Kenya, I think we don’t just have our priorities right. Because you find that a lot of the times money will be poured into politics, money will be poured into other things but health. We are waiting for donations,” he said. More than 7,3 million cases, including more than 186 000 deaths, have been confirmed across the continent, and health systems are straining to provide medical oxygen and other care. According to some health experts, if Africa continues to proceed at such a slow pace with its vaccination programme, it could prolong the pandemic. WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus recently said it was “unconscionable” that some countries are now offering booster shots “while so many people remain unprotected”. – Al Jazeera.

NAIROBI. – A prominent Kenyan pathologist has warned of “vaccine apartheid” in Africa amid the slow rollout of Covid-19 jabs, echoing condemnation from senior World Health Organization (WHO) officials.

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Griezmann rejoins Atletico
Griezmann rejoins Atletico

MADRID. — Spanish La Liga football giants Barcelona have signed Netherlands striker Luuk De Jong from Sevilla on a season-long loan after France’s Antoine Griezmann left the Nou Camp to rejoin Atletico Madrid on a similar deal.

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Likhona izulu lonyaka
Likhona izulu lonyaka

ABALIMI bathabe bamanzi ngokuzwa ukuthi lonyaka izulu linengi. Uhlangothi olubona ngezomumo womkhathi, olwe-Meteorological Services Department (Met) lubike ngoLwesibili ukuba lihlole emkhathini ukuba kusukela ngoMfumfu kusiya kuMbombitho izulu lizabe lisina. Esinye…

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Netanyahu plans to meet Arafat
Netanyahu plans to meet Arafat

ISRAELI Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, facing threats of a renewed Palestinian uprising, yesterday gave his strongest indication so far he would soon hold talks with Palestinian president Yasser Arafat.

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