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By Ebi Kesiena Dutch health authorities said on Saturday that 61 passengers from two flights from South Africa tested positive for COVID-19 and the results were being examined for the new Omicron variant. The people who...

By Ebi Kesiena South Africa’s Health Ministry has attacked a global rush to impose travel bans to slow the spread of a new Covid variant as “draconian,” unscientific and contrary to WHO advice. The new strain,...

By John Ikani Liberia, Sierra Leone and Ivory Coast say they will step up efforts to bring Guinea back to civilian rule, following September's coup. All four countries are part of the regional group, the Mano...

By John Ikani Several Sudanese political figures arrested since a coup last month have been released from detention after beginning a hunger strike. An army takeover on October 25 halted a power sharing deal between the...

By John Ikani UAE and US have announced suspension of entry of travellers from seven southern African countries. The travel ban followed the detection of Omicron, the highly transmissible new variant of COVID in the region....

By John Ikani  The World Health Organization on November 26 declared the recently-discovered B.1.1.529 strain of COVID-19, first detected in Southern Africa, to be a variant of concern and renamed it Omicron. “Based on the evidence...