The World Health Organization set a target that each country should be able to give shots to at least 10 percent of its people by September.
Author: Abdi Latif Dahir
‘Hotel Rwanda’ Dissident Denied Food and Medicine in Prison, Family Says
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The W.H.O. said that test positivity had risen in 14 countries on the African continent over the last seven days, and that eight had reported surges of over 30 percent in new cases.
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Egyptology Is Having a Big Moment. But Will Tourists Come?
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France Enabled 1994 Rwanda Genocide, Report Says
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Vaccine Hesitancy Leaves Doses to Expire in Some African Countries
Thousands of doses have gone to waste in Malawi and South Sudan.