Mpox: Spain To Donate 500,000 Vaccines To Africa

Spain will donate 500,000 Mpox vaccine doses to countries in central Africa suffering from a surge in cases, the government said Tuesday. The doses amount to 20 percent of Spain’s total mpox vaccine reserves, the health ministry said in a statement without specifying which nations in the region will receive the vaccines or when they will arrive. Spain also urged its European Union peers to follow suit and also donate 20 percent of their mbox vaccine stockpile, saying it” makes no sense to stockpile vaccines where there is no problem,” the statement added. France and Germany have both announced they…

Tebogo Delivers Olympic Glory For Africa, Late Mother

Letsile Tebogo has always said an Olympic medal would not just be for Botswana but the continent of Africa and he duly delivered on Thursday by becoming the first African to be crowned 200m Olympic champion. The 21-year-old produced a stunning run in Paris to leave pre-race favourite Noah Lyles trailing in third. In fact, Tebogo is only the second athlete from Africa to even win a medal in the 200m. Namibian Frankie Fredericks had blazed the way for Tebogo by winning the second of his two silvers in Atlanta in 1996. Tebogo set an African record of 19.46sec in…