Zanzibar vice-president laid to rest

Mr Hamad was the most prominent politician in Tanzania to have openly declared that he had contracted Covid-19. No official reason has been given for his death. He was 77 years-old

South Africa has started its rolling out of the Covid-19 vaccine from Johnson and Johnson following the suspension of an earlier plan to use the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.

And, we hear from Ghanaian musician M3NSA

(Image: Seif Sharif Hamad. Credit: Getty Images)