London, March 19, 2021 (AltAfrica)-U.S. President Joe Biden will provide nearly $52 million more in aid to address the humanitarian crisis in the Tigray region, Ethiopia but called for hostilities to end and human rights abusers to be held accountable. Washington is also sending Senator Chris Coons to Ethiopia to meet with Prime Minister Abiy ...

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. 19, 2020 (AltAfrica)-COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer Inc and Moderna Inc could be ready for US authorisation and distribution within weeks, setting the stage for inoculation to begin as soon as this year, US Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said on Wednesday. States and territories are prepared to begin distributing the vaccines ...

London, Sep. 26, 2020 (AltAfrica) US government is planning to bar East African students from pursuing degrees in the US by limiting their stay in the country. The move which is contained in proposals by the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will also see students from a majority of African countries barred from getting student ...

London, Sep. 3, 2020 (AltAfrica)-The United States, US, said on Wednesday that it will not pay some $80 million it currently owes to the Geneva-based World Health Organisation (WHO) and will instead redirect the money to help pay its United Nations bill in New York. READ ALSO: BRITAIN COMMITS £500M TO FUND FASTER COVID-19 TEST ...

London, July 8, 2020 (AltAfrica)-Novavax Inc. said on Tuesday it planned to deliver 100 million doses of its vaccine, potentially by the end of the year in what could be a game changer in the treatment of deadly covid-19 (coronavirus) “We are honored to partner with Operation Warp Speed to move our vaccine candidate forward ...

London, July 1, 2020 (AltAfrica)-The Trump administration in US has bought up virtually all the stocks for the next three months of one of the two drugs proven to work against Covid-19, leaving none for the rest of the world. Experts and campaigners are alarmed both by the US unilateral action on remdesivir and the wider implications, ...

London, June 20, 2020 (AltAfrica)-The U.S. government said Friday that it has stopped issuing travel visas to people from Burundi because the country is not taking back citizens facing deportation from the United States. Burundi was penalized with the visa restrictions because the government of the Central African nation has “denied or unreasonably delayed” issuing ...

London, May 6, 2020 (AltAfrica)–Donald Trump is preparing to scrap the White House coronavirus taskforce even as the US death toll has topped 70,000 and experts warn that the worst is yet to come. Vice President Mike Pence said Tuesday that the emergency task force he heads will not be needed much longer than the end ...

London, March 28, 2020 (AltAfrica)-The United States Government has announced a 7 million dollars (about N2.6 billion) emergency health and humanitarian aid to Nigeria to help the country in the fight against dreaded coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. This is part of a 274 million dollars (N103 billion) assistance package to no fewer than 63 countries affected ...