Africa: Continent Nears 8 Million Covid-19 Recoveries: [allAfrica] As of November 19, 2021, confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached 8,572,474 while over 135,483,514 vaccinations have been administered across the continent. – AllAfrica News: Africa
Africa: African Countries Perform Badly When It Comes to Drug Policies – a New Index Shows How: [The Conversation Africa] Awukye received a 10-year prison sentence in Ghana for cannabis possession. The experience, he said, shattered his family’s dreams. Michael Anami, a Kenyan, recalled the “multiple arrests, beatings, incarcerations, and untimely deaths” he had witnessed as a drug policy activist and former user. – AllAfrica News: Africa
Africa: African Union, U.S. Envoys Return to Ethiopia Amid Ongoing Peace Talks: [Addis Standard] Addis Abeba — At today’s biweekly press briefings, Ambassador Dina Mufti, the Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia (MoFA) discussed the return of the special envoys of the African Union and the United states to Ethiopia today. The spokesperson stated that Olusegun Obasanjo, the AU’s special envoy for the Horn of Africa is undertaking a ‘fact finding mission’ to find out the position of the different parties, “We’re expecting that he will disclose his investigation in the near future.” Correspondin – AllAfrica News: Africa
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