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Politician named Adolf Hitler Uunona wins vote in Namibia

South China Morning Post
Posted at Dec 04 02:44 PM

Adolf Hitler Uunona elected councilor in the Ompundja constituency, in the northern part of Namibia. His father named him after Nazi leader, but "probably didn’t understand what Adolf Hitler stood for."   Read more »

Xi Jinping tells BRICS leaders ‘we’re all in the same boat’ as he takes veiled swipe at US

Echo Xie, South China Morning Post
Posted at Nov 19 12:20 PM

The Chinese president calls on emerging economies to uphold multilateralism and ‘oppose unilateral sanctions and long-arm jurisdiction’. He also says the five nations should work together to fight the pandemic and to implement the Paris climate agreement. Read more »

Coronavirus cases in Africa surpass 2 million

Shaina Ahluwalia, Reuters
Posted at Nov 19 04:04 AM

Total coronavirus cases in Africa surpassed the 2 million mark on Wednesday despite the slow addition of reported infections compared to other regions around the world. Read more »

Terrorism, coronavirus pandemic on the agenda as BRICS leaders meet

Laura Zhou in Beijing, South China Morning Post
Posted at Nov 17 12:57 PM

Five emerging economies are expected to endorse a strategy setting out how they can work together on counterterrorism. Economic recovery and cooperation in public health are also likely to be discussed at their virtual summit. Read more »

South Africa's coronavirus cases cross 700,000, says health ministry

Reuters
Posted at Oct 17 05:56 AM

JOHANNESBURG - South African coronavirus cases reported since the first infection in early March surpassed 700,000 on Friday, the health ministry said, amid fears of an impending second wave as the nation battles an economic recession Read more »

Nearly 200 at school in Nigeria's Lagos test positive for COVID-19: health officials

Reuters
Posted at Oct 17 05:52 AM

LAGOS - A total of 181 students and staff at a private boarding school in the Nigerian capital Lagos have tested positive for coronavirus, state health authorities said on Friday. Read more »

Rugby: World Cup holders South Africa pull out of Rugby Championship

Martin PARRY, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 16 03:39 PM

World Cup-holders South Africa pulled out of the Rugby Championship Friday over complications caused by the coronavirus, badly diminishing the tournament and raising further questions about their future in southern hemisphere rugby.   Read more »

Heirs of Marcos cronies score partial court win, avoid paying P1-million damages

Adrian Ayalin, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 29 02:33 PM

The Sandiganbayan 3rd Division has decided to disregard its earlier decision ordering the heirs of former Marcos associates Jose Africa and Manuel Nieto, Jr. to pay the government P1 million in exemplary damages.   Read more »

Puzzled scientists seek reasons behind Africa's low fatality rates from pandemic

Alexander Winning, Reuters
Posted at Sep 29 10:34 AM

Africa's overburdened public health systems, dearth of testing facilities and overcrowded slums had experts predicting a disaster when COVID-19 hit the continent in February. Read more »

Invasive Asian mosquito species threatens African cities: study

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 15 08:28 AM

WASHINGTON - A species of mosquito originally from Asia threatens to put tens of millions of city-dwellers in Africa at higher risk of catching malaria as the invading insect spreads throughout the continent, a study said Monday.   Read more »

Former Malian officials return dozens of luxurious vehicles

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 11 08:00 AM

BAMAKO, Mali - Malian ministers and MPs who acquired government limousines and four-wheel-drive cars under ousted president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita have hastened to hand back the vehicles after the new military rulers requested their return. Read more »

S.Africa's booze church fetes easing of virus controls

Susan Njanji, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 01 08:05 AM

Welcome to Gabola Church -- South Africa's unorthodox place of worship which allows its members to drink alcohol during services. Read more »

Big Oil is in trouble; Its plan: Flood Africa with plastic

Hiroko Tabuchi, Michael Corkery and Carlos Mureithi, The New York Times
Posted at Aug 31 07:30 AM

Confronting a climate crisis that threatens the fossil fuel industry, oil companies are racing to make more plastic. But they face 2 problems: Many markets are already awash with plastic, and few countries are willing to be dumping grounds for the world’s plastic waste.   Read more »

Africa could be past the peak of virus pandemic: WHO

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 26 07:08 AM

JOHANNESBURG - Africa's coronavirus outbreak may have passed its peak, the World Health Organization (WHO) continental chief said Tuesday, warning against complacency to avoid a second wave. Read more »

‘Historic day’: UN declares Africa free of polio

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 26 01:30 AM

The UN's WHO Tuesday declared that Africa was now free of the virus that causes polio, a landmark in a decades-long campaign to eradicate the notorious disease around the world. Read more »

The daily average of new COVID cases in Africa falls

JACS T. SAMPAYAN
Updated as of Aug 24 07:03 AM

Plus, Sweden will ease restrictions for sporting events come October, China has had no local transmission in six days, and WHO believes that we will come out of the pandemic in less than two years. BY JACS T. SAMPAYAN Read more »

Long 'lost' elephant shrew found in Horn of Africa

Amélie Bottollier-Depois, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 19 12:02 PM

The Somali sengi has been lost to science since the 1970s, leaving just the 39 preserved specimens held in the world's natural history museums as the only physical evidence that it ever existed. But during an expedition last year scientists found the animals still roaming the wild, discovering that the Somali sengi is not confined to Somalia at all. Read more »

Ritwal sa pagpapatuli sa South Africa naantala dahil sa pandemya

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Aug 14 03:01 PM

Umaasa sana na makakapagpatuli ang 17 anyos na South African na si Sinyolo ngayong taon, isang itinuring na "rite of passage" sa pagiging "lalaki."  Read more »

Africa surpasses a million coronavirus cases

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 07 12:04 PM

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - COVID-19 has now infected more than a million people in Africa, but hopes that the pandemic may be peaking in some countries are also leavened by fear of a second wave. Read more »

Coronavirus infects 24,000 S.African health workers

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 05 04:25 PM

South Africa is the hardest-hit country in Africa with at least 521,318 infections diagnosed so far, accounting for more than half the continent's cases. Read more »