SOUTH AFRICA South Africa is located at the southern point of Africa. During the seventeenth century, Dutch colonists from the Netherlands (known as Boers) settled there. Over the next 200 years, British, French, and German settlers joined them. At first, they settled along the coast, but eventually settlers moved inland. These settlers developed a unique […]
Read MoreHOW COVID-19 JABS GAVE BOOST TO TOURISM IN TANZANIA Swift action by the Tanzanian government to launch a vaccination campaign against Covid-19 has had a positive effect on tourism, Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism, Damas Ndumbaro has said. Despite being severely battered by the pandemic, the tourism sector recorded a 52% increase in the […]
Read More$15 MILLION SETTLEMENT REACHED ON ELIJAH MCCLAIN DEATH An agreement has been reached to pay the sum of $15 million to the family of Elijah McClain. According to city authorities and the family’s lawyer, officials in Aurora, the payment agreement was made in settlement to a federal civil rights lawsuit against the Aurora police department […]
Read MoreFLATTERING HAIRSTYLES THAT SUITS THE SHAPES OF YOUR FACE Looking for the most flattering hairstyle for your face can be a long, hard journey, but consider this: there is no one-size-fits-all hairstyle for any given face shape. The beauty of African American hair is that it can be worn in so many ways: curly, kinky, […]
Read MoreTHE PANDEMIC RAGES AS THE OMICRON (COVID19) VARIANT ENTERS THE SCENE – Vaccine may be our best option The Covid19 pandemic is not over, though I wish it was. It is still ravaging and people are dying daily in large numbers. While people cannot wait to get back to their regular lives, they need to […]
Read MoreDear Respected Community Members, As the Chief Executive Officer of Connect for Health Colorado, I am delighted to be included in this month’s edition of Afrik Digest. Connect for Health Colorado is our state’s official health insurance Marketplace, also known as Obamacare. Since 2013, we’ve been helping individuals, families and small businesses compare health insurance […]
Read MoreAs vaccines blunt the threat of severe illness and death from Covid-19, millions of people remain at risk of developing an array of less serious but potentially debilitating long-term symptoms of the disease that scientists call long Covid. Many of the most vulnerable are among younger unvaccinated people who are unprotected against the rapidly spreading […]
Read MoreAfrica has the greatest number of unvaccinated children in the world but stats from the World Health Organization (WHO) reveal that the COVID-19 epidemic disrupted health services throughout Africa, resulting in a roughly 10% increase in missed vaccines, compared to the previous year. In 2020, about 7.7 million African children, which makes up 45% of […]
Read MoreIt is victory at last for Hakainde Hichilema as he finally won the recently concluded elections by what you could call a landslide victory to clinch the presidency of Zambia. Hichilema had run for and lost every election in Zambia after losing by 100,000 votes to Edgar Lungu in 2016. After the sixth run, Hichilema, […]
Read MoreIn addition to Swahili, Lingala, Kikongo, and Tshiluba, the government of the DemocraticRepublic of Congo intends to make sign language the fifth official language. It will be formallytaught in schools to make government services more accessible to those who use sign language.A sign language dictionary is also being developed by the government. According to a […]
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