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Burundi's has agreed to receive Covid-19 vaccines under the COVAX initiative but the country鈥檚 ministry of health says it will not mobilise people for vaccination. Burundi and Eritrea are the last countries in Africa yet to receive the Covid-19 vaccine.

Recently elected President of Niger, Mohamed Bazoum, says his government is revamping the country鈥檚 education system to boost the education of girls.

There鈥檚 growing concern for the welfare Eritrean refugees in Ethiopia with the United Nations saying they are facing an existential threat marked by food shortages and insecurity in their camps.

(Picture: A medical staff member measures a man's temperature as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus on his arrival of repatriation in Gatumba, on border with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), in Burundi, on March 18, 2020. Credit: Photo by ONESPHORE NIBIGIRA/AFP via Getty Images))