Vaccine Rollout?in Ivory Coast?Picks?Up?Steam After?Rough Start
The first doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine arrived in Ivory Coast in late February. By March 1, the country started vaccinating people, making it the first in the world to do so through the COVAX initiative, a program co-led by the World Health Organi…
Read MoreWHO: Africa Facing Rapidly Spreading Third COVID Wave
The World Health Organization said Africa is facing a third wave of COVID-19.WHO said cases have risen for five consecutive weeks, with 474,000 new cases since June 20. The increase indicates a more rapid spread than the continent’s second wave, which …
Read MoreSouthern African Leaders Under Pressure to Ramp Up COVID Jabs
HARARE, ZIMBABWE – Amnesty International and 27 groups in southern Africa are calling for a faster pace of vaccinations as a new wave of coronavirus infections sweeps through the region. “A number of countries across southern Africa, including Namibia,…
Read MoreCameroon Widows Accuse Women of Enforcing Harmful Traditional Rituals
YAOUNDE, CAMEROON – Several hundred Cameroonian widows gathered in the capital, Yaounde, to observe International Widows Day by protesting traditional practices that wives are expected to undergo when they lose their husbands.Cameroon’s minister of wom…
Read MoreAfter Cameroon Government Ban from Western Regions, MSF Says Thousands Lack Healthcare
YAOUNDÉ – Medical aid group Doctors Without Borders says tens of thousands of people in Cameroon’s western regions have been deprived of lifesaving healthcare since December, when authorities stopped their services. Cameroon accused the aid group of be…
Read MoreAssessing the Socioeconomic Impact of COVID-19 on Forcibly Displaced Populations: Thematic Brief No. 2: The case of Nigeria, June 2021
• Microdata originating from a socioeconomic impact assessment in Nigeria shows relatively high levels of awareness of COVID-19 and its symptoms among refugee households, which may be the result of information campaigns within their living environments…
Read MoreHuman Rights Council Begins Interactive Discussion with the High Commissioner for Human Rights on her Annual Report and Concludes Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on Eritrea
The Human Rights Council this morning began an interactive discussion with the High Commissioner for Human Rights on her annual report after concluding its dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Eritrea. It also heard …
Read MoreVaccines against COVID-19 Must Be Considered as a Global Public Good, High Commissioner for Human Rights Tells Human Rights Council as it Opens its Forty-Seventh Regular Session
The Human Rights Council this morning opened its forty-seventh regular session, hearing from Nazhat Shameem Khan, President of the Council, and Michelle Bachelet, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, who presented an oral update on her an…
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