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Oxford-Astrazeneca Covid-19 Vaccine Shows 70% Efficacy

Oxford University and British pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca say their vaccine for the novel coronavirus could be around 70% effective under one dosing regimen. In a...

Hong Kong Activist Joshua Wong To Plead Guilty At Trial Over Protest Involvement

Prominent Hong Kong dissident Joshua Wong announced he and two other leading activists will plead guilty at the opening of a trial over their...

Trial Of Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy Over Corruption Opens In Paris

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy goes on trial Monday for attempted bribery of a judge, being the modern French Head of State to face...

Satellites Are Mapping Out Every Tree On Earth Using Artificial Intelligence

Scientists have mapped 1.8 billion individual tree canopies across millions of kilometres of the Sahel and Sahara regions of West Africa. It is the...

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CBN Holds Interest Rate At 26.5% As MPC Cites Global Risks And Inflation Concerns

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has retained the country’s benchmark interest rate, the Monetary Policy Rate (MPR), at 26.5 per cent, following the conclusion of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting in Abuja. CBN Governor Olayemi Cardoso, who announced the committee’s decision on Tuesday, said the move reflected the...

144 Migrants Dead Or Missing Off Mauritania’s Coast, UN Says

The UN refugee agency reported on Tuesday that 144 migrants are dead or missing after attempting to reach Europe via the waters off Mauritania, following three separate rescue operations carried out between July 14 and 18. The heaviest toll came from a single boat that departed Bufaloto, Gambia,...

ECOWAS Demands Release Of Detained Opposition Leader In Guinea-Bissau

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has called on Guinea-Bissau's military-led government to unconditionally free all detained political figures, including opposition leader Domingos Simoes Pereira, according to a statement issued after a summit of regional heads of state in Sierra Leone. Freeing the political prisoners would...