NAIROBI, Kenya — Calls for unity dominated Thursday’s 60th anniversary celebrations for the continent-wide organization preceding the African Union that represented 55 member states. Africa Day events across the continent honored the founding of the AU’s predecessor - The Organization of African Unity -- whose original purpose was to fight colonialism before evolving in 2002 to incorporate the aims of …
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Africa, still facing lingering economic effects from the coronavirus pandemic, has been hit hard by rising food costs linked to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has said that “bystander countries” were suffering due to sanctions against Russia and called for talks as the African Union prepared a mission to foster dialogue between Moscow and Kyiv. …
AU chairman Cyril Ramaphosa said vaccines from Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca would be available this year. Millions of coronavirus vaccine doses secured by the African Union will be allocated according to countries’ populations, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said. No African countries have begun large-scale vaccination campaigns and the AU’s 270 million shots, if administered so there are …