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Fresh off her nationally acclaimed poetry reading at President Joe Biden's inauguration, Los Angeles native Amanda Gorman will be presenting her work on another massive stage -- the Super Bowl,
The post Poet Amanda Gorman To Read Tribute Poem At Super Bowl appeared first on Los Angeles Sentinel.
A November 26 letter from the presidency asked the head of Uganda's national drug authority to 'work out a mechanism' to clear the importation of the vaccines.
China has about five COVID-19 vaccine candidates at different levels of trials. It was not clear what vaccine was being imported into Uganda.
One of the frontrunners is the Sinopharm vaccine developed by the Beijing Institute of Biological Product, a unit of Sinopharm’s China National Biotec Group (CNBG).
On Wednesday, the United Arab Emirates said the vaccine has 86% efficacy, citing an interim analysis of late-stage clinical trials.
China has used the drug to vaccinate up to a million people under its emergency use program.
On Tuesday, Morocco said it was ordering up to 10 million doses of the vaccine.
Record cases
Uganda on Monday registered 701 new COVID-19 cases, the highest-ever daily increase, bringing its national count to 23,200.
The new cases were out of the 5,578 samples tested for the novel coronavirus over the past 24 hours, the country's health ministry said in a statement.
Tuesday's tally was 606, the second-highest ever number of new infections, bringing the cumulative number of confirmed cases in the east African country to 23,860.
Health authorities have blamed ongoing election campaigns which have drawn huge crowds for the rise in infections.
Great news! Hip-hop icon Kurtis Blow is on the road to recovery following a successful heart transplant on December 5. 'We give all glory to God for the perfect heart […]
The post Rap Legend Kurtis Blow's Heart Transplant Was A Success appeared first on Essence.
The number of people forced to flee their homes passed 80 million in 2020, the UN refugee agency said in a report released Wednesday in Geneva.
According to UNHCR’s Mid-Year Trends report on forced displacement, the figure includes 45.7 million internally displaced people (IDPs), 29.6 million refugees and others forcibly displaced outside their country, and 4.2 million asylum seekers.
The report said persecution, conflict, and human rights violations were the main factors forcing people to flee.
Violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mozambique, Somalia and Yemen all contributed to driving new displacements in the first half of 2020.
“We are now surpassing another bleak milestone that will continue to grow unless world leaders stop wars”, said Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees.
The Sahel region, which is battling a brutal militant insurgency has also seen fresh displacement according to the report.
The UNHCR said plans to resettle refugees were affected by the outbreak of the coronavirus.
The report adds that at the peak of the first wave of the pandemic in April, 168 countries and regions fully or partially closed their borders, with 90 countries and regions making no exception for people seeking asylum.
As a result, only 17,400 refugees were resettled in the first six months of 2020, half the figure of 2019.
When Georgia’s Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler isn’t complaining about the outcome of the 2020 election, she’s putting all her energy into approving negative ads about her opponent, Reverend Raphael Warnock, the Democratic Party’s candidate for her Senate seat. We took the time to separate fact from fiction.
More than 1,000 Black women signed an open letter urging Joe Biden to appoint more Black women to his cabinet and administration.
The coronavirus has seen the Kardashian and Jenner clans canning the party for the first time since 1978.
Press Release - Nearly 70 poor countries will only be able to vaccinate one in ten people against COVID-19 next year unless urgent action is taken by governments and the pharmaceutical industry to make sure enough doses are produced, a group of campaigning organisations warned today.
[Monitor] Arrangements have been finalised through which survivors of gender based violence (GBV) can access timely legal information and assistance to access justice.
After releasing “Around the World in a Day” in 1985 and “Parade” in 1986, to little excitement (compared to “Purple Rain”), critics and some fans opined that Prince had reached his creative peak. — Then came “Sign o’ The Times.”
Black America has historically been skeptical of the medical profession. Nowhere is this more evident than when it comes to... View Article
The post Top 10 things Black Americans need to know about the vaccine appeared first on TheGrio.
RACISM IN football took a new twist when a high profile Champions League fixture was...
The post Racism in football takes a new twist in CL fixture appeared first on Voice Online.
USC’s Isaiah Mobley shoots as UC Irvine’s Collin Welp defends during Tuesday night’s game at the Galen Center. (Photo by Hans Gutknecht, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG) UC Irvine Dawson Baker (1) grabs a rebound away from USC’s Isaiah Mobley (3) during their game at the Galen Center in Los Angeles, Tuesday, December 8, 2020. (Photo […]
Philadelphia is working together with the city's tourism bureau, Visit Philly, to promote Black businesses that are struggling to stay open amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
[Premium Times] President Nana Akufo-Addo has won the 2020 presidential election in Ghana, defeating his closest challenger and former president John Mahama by polling 6,730,413 votes (51.59 per cent).
[Nairobi News] Government spokesperson Colonel (Rtd) Cyrus Oguna has denied claims that President Uhuru Kenyatta will be proceeding to a month-long sabbatical beginning December 15.
Former cybersecurity and infrastructure security chief Christopher Krebs has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration and news outlet Newsmax.
[Nation] Growing up, Teresia Wanjiru wanted to become a doctor. She believed that a good career would be their ticket out of Mathare slums, where she and her siblings were raised by a single mother.
[East African] Kenya's national carrier Kenya Airways is seeking to play a role in the distribution of Covid-19 vaccines in Africa.
Lee is backing Parker's latest film \"American Skin\" in what seems like an effort to help Parker surge forward in spite of former rape accusations.
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- The much anticipated Special Senatorial Elections (SSE) and National Referendum have come and gone but in the coming days voters across the country will be eagerly waiting for the results.
Rapper and mogul Rick Ross has teamed up with the telehealth company Jetdoc to spread awareness about the importance of affordable healthcare.
[Nation] A secretary at the scandal-ridden drugs agency has told lawmakers that suspended Chief Executive Officer Jonah Manjari made her to backdate a commitment letter for a three-month-old firm awarded a Sh900 million tender.
[CAF] Libya coach Ali Mergini reigned from his position after seeing his side losing back-to-back games to Equatorial Guinea 3-2 in Cairo and 1-0 in Malabo in the frame of Total Africa Cup of Nations Cameroon 2021 qualifiers.
Singer K. Michelle is trending over a series of tweets in which she says \"it hurts\" to not have R Kelly with her as she makes her new album.
[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- President of the General Commission on Resistance Fighters, Martyrs and Wounded of the Revolution and on Terrorist Attacks Abderrazak Kilani announced on Tuesday that the final list of the Revolution martyrs and wounded is \"almost ready.\"
The nation’s largest African American video oral history archive is hosting a virtual convening to address the “crisis” of key public figures passing away without having their stories documented and preserved for the benefit of succeeding generations. In what is described as “a race against time,” The HistoryMakers assembled some of the nation’s “top African […]
