London, April 29, 2021 (AltAfrica)-The German vaccine manufacturer BioNTech says it is set to request the authorization of a COVID-19 vaccine for children over the age of 12. Vaccines for younger children look set to follow. BioNTech’s CEO Ugur Sahin told the news magazine Der Spiegel that the company was “in the final stretches” of preparing its submission ...

London, Jan. 17, 2021 (AltAfrica)-European Union, EU and Museveni Yoweri Ugandan rolling leader appear to have finally struct an accord after Uganda’s electoral commission said Saturday that President Yoweri Museveni won a sixth five-year term, extending his rule to four decades But top opposition challenger Bobi Wine dismissed “cooked-up, fraudulent results” and officials struggled to ...

London, Dec. 2, 2020 (AltAfrica)-Johnson & Johnson said late Tuesday that health regulators in Europe and Canada had started a real-time review of its COVID-19 vaccine candidate after preliminary results showed that the shot triggered the production of antibodies and immune cells against the virus. The European Medicines Agency said the review would go on ...

London, Nov. 27, 2020 (AltAfrica)-Canada could approve Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine “around December,” about the same time as the United States and the European Union, a senior official at Canada’s drug regulator said on Thursday. Canada is looking at the same data as regulators in the United States and European Union, and has a similar authorization ...

London, Nov. 20, 2020 (AltAfrica)-The European Union could approve two coronavirus vaccines being tested by Pfizer-BioNTech and by Moderna before the end of next month, EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said Thursday.  Speaking after a video summit of EU leaders, von der Leyen said the European Medicines Agency could give “conditional marketing authorisation… as early as the second ...

London, June 21, 2020 (AltAfrica)-Nigerian Government has taken delivery of Medical equipment worth $22m from the European Union and the United Nations to help in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic. The Presidential Task Force on Covid-19, PTF, received the consignment at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, Nigeria same day the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, ...

London, May 5, 2020 (AltAfrica)-At least 78 African migrants fleeing war-torn Libya for Europe remain stuck at sea without a designated port to dock, the U.N. migration agency said Monday. Libya has emerged as a major transit point for African and Arab migrants fleeing conflict and poverty to Europe, following the overthrow of longtime dictator ...

London, April 11, 2020 (AltAfrica)-Officially, the European Parliament Building is the legislative home and the seat of the European Council and Council of the European Union, located on Wetstraat/Rue de la Loi in the European Quarter of Brussels, the capital city of Belgium READ ALSO: NEW YORK CONDUCTS MASS BURIALS FOR CORONAVIRUS VICTIMS The enormous building housing about  250 offices is made up of 3750 ...

London, March 17, 2020 (AltAfrica)-The European Union, EU is imposing temporary ban on all non-essential travel to the its 27 member states in a bid for a unified effort to limit Covid-19 spread and reduce the burden on European countries’ health systems. The restrictions, proposed by European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen, would be ...

London, March 14, 2020 (AltAfrica)-The EU says it will pay €2,000 (£1,770; $2,225) each to migrants in overcrowded camps on the Greek islands willing to go back to their home countries. EU Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson announced the scheme in Athens on Thursday. It was agreed with the Greek government. READ ALSO: NIGERIA IS ...