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Africa banks on mass vaccination campaigns

Africa is banking on COVID-19 mass vaccination campaigns to realize the African Union's goal of vaccinating 70 percent of the continent's population by the end of the year to achieve herd immunity. To that end, the continent launched through the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention the Saving Lives and Livelihood program, a mass vaccination campaign. The program began last year and is a partnership between MasterCard Foundation and the Africa CDC. MasterCard is financin...

SpaceX launches four astronauts to ISS

![After a series of delays, Elon Musk's private company SpaceX launched four astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday night on the "Crew-3" mission. The orbital outpost is currently operating with just one NASA astronaut in the US segment to welcome the incoming crew, after the astronauts of the earlier Crew-2 mission splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday night. Crew-3's Raja Chari, Kayla Barron and Tom Marshburn of the US and Matthias Maurer of Germa...