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Plus: Political turmoil in Mali, protests in Argentina, a mass grave in Canada, and an extinct tortoise in the Galapagos Islands. Parents are reunited with their daughters in Jangabe, Nigeria, Wednesday, March 3, 2021 Sunday Alamba/Associated Press Photo
MARY REICHARD, HOST: Coming up next on
The World and Everything in It: World Tour with our reporter in Africa, Onize Ohikere.
ONIZE OHIKERE, REPORTER:
AUDIO: [Sounds of screaming, crying]
Fourteen students kidnapped in April from a university in northwestern Nigeria reunited with their families on Saturday. Their captors freed them after 40 days.
Associated Press (file)President John Magufuli in Dodoma, Tanzania
Tanzanian president says no to COVID-19 vaccines
International | The East African leader has insisted his nation is free from the virus Posted 2/04/21, 06:23 pm
On Sunday, Tanzania’s opposition Alliance for Change and Transparency party said its chairman, Seif Sharif Hamad, is receiving treatment for the coronavirus. The 77-year-old confirmed he went to a hospital while his wife isolated at home. Hamad is the first high-level Tanzanian to openly say he contracted the virus since the government stopped reporting infections in April.
Tanzanian President John Magufuli last week called COVID-19 vaccines “dangerous” and warned the country’s health authorities against blindly acquiring them. The government isn’t tracking infection or death rates, and many fear the nation’s approach could leave it at the end of the line to get vaccines as other African countries scramble to get their first doses.