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December 06, (THEWILL) - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday criticised the travel bans imposed by western countries on parts of Africa over the spread of Omicron, the new COVID-19 variant. Ramaphosa, who spoke at the Dakar International Forum on...

December 06, (THEWILL) - Gambia's Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) has declared President Adama Barrow the winner of Saturday's presidential poll. Barrow, who won about 53% of the votes, defeated his main contender, Ousainou Darboe of the United Democratic Party (UDP), who...

December 05, (THEWILL) - Two explosions hit the United Nations (UN) camps in the northern Mali city of Gao on Sunday, causing damage. The blasts, which occurred at 0545 GMT, shook the barracks of the United Nations mission, MINUSMA, in Mali,...

December 02, (THEWILL) - The United States has announced its first confirmed case of the Covid-19 Omicron variant. The case was detected in California, in a fully vaccinated traveler who had recently returned from South Africa and was recovering from...

December 01, (THEWILL) - Saudi Arabia on Wednesday confirmed the discovery of the new coronavirus variant, Omicron, first to be reported in the Arab world. The case was detected in a Saudi man who returned from a North African nation. State news...

December 01, (THEWILL) - Brazil became the first Latin American country to report cases of the Omicron variant of the novel coronavirus. According to the Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency, the country’s first two cases involved a couple, a 41-year-old man...

November 29, (THEWILL) - Canada has detected its first cases of the new Omicron strain of Covid, in two people who had traveled recently to Nigeria, Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos said in a statement on Sunday. “I was informed today by...

November 28, (THEWILL) - Israel has announced plans to close its borders to all foreigners later Sunday in a bid to stem the spread of the new Omicron variant of the coronavirus. “The entry of foreign nationals into Israel is...

November 27, (THEWILL) - Dutch health authorities said Saturday that 61 passengers from two flights from South Africa tested positive for COVID-19 and the results are being examined for the new Omicron variant. The people who tested positive are now...

November 27, (THEWILL) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) has renamed the recently-discovered B.1.1.529 strain of COVID-19 "Omicron". “Based on the evidence presented indicative of a detrimental change in Covid-19 epidemiology… the WHO has designated B.1.1.529 as a variant of...