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NASSAU, Bahamas, Feb. 13, CMC – The Gulf State of Qatar has made a significant donation to government of The Bahamas, in an effort to help the country in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. The donation of Personal Protective...
A November 26 letter from the presidency asked the head of Uganda's national drug authority to 'work out a mechanism' to clear the importation of the vaccines.
China has about five COVID-19 vaccine candidates at different levels of trials. It was not clear what vaccine was being imported into Uganda.
One of the frontrunners is the Sinopharm vaccine developed by the Beijing Institute of Biological Product, a unit of Sinopharm’s China National Biotec Group (CNBG).
On Wednesday, the United Arab Emirates said the vaccine has 86% efficacy, citing an interim analysis of late-stage clinical trials.
China has used the drug to vaccinate up to a million people under its emergency use program.
On Tuesday, Morocco said it was ordering up to 10 million doses of the vaccine.
Record cases
Uganda on Monday registered 701 new COVID-19 cases, the highest-ever daily increase, bringing its national count to 23,200.
The new cases were out of the 5,578 samples tested for the novel coronavirus over the past 24 hours, the country's health ministry said in a statement.
Tuesday's tally was 606, the second-highest ever number of new infections, bringing the cumulative number of confirmed cases in the east African country to 23,860.
Health authorities have blamed ongoing election campaigns which have drawn huge crowds for the rise in infections.
The newspaper said prosecutors have charged the 38-year-old, whose real name is Ramoni Abbas, with \"obtaining money from others through fraudulent means.\"
Security officers in the emirate arrested Mr Abbas and 12 others for online fraud that targets companies and individuals.
\"They would send out letters from email addresses almost identical to those of legitimate companies, targeting customers of these companies, with the purpose of diverting payments to themselves,\" the newspaper quoted a senior Dubai prosecutor as saying.
According to the report, security officers in the emirate arrested Hushpuppi and 12 others for online fraud that targets companies and individuals.
Many of his followers acknowledged benefitting from his occasional cash 'giveaways', even though his source of affluence, which has long evoked the curiosity of bloggers, remained unclear,
Mr Abbas appeared to be the highest-profile Nigerian to be arrested so far in 2020, months after several other Nigerians, including Obinwanne Okeke and Ismaila Mompha, were arrested in August and October 2019, respectively, for their alleged roles in separate multinational fraud.
With social distancing mandatory in the United Arab Emirates to help curb the spread of the virus, VOX Cinemas says viewers will be limited to two per car at the open-air venue, which opens on Sunday and can accommodate up to 75 cars at a time.
“We keep our social distancing so it’s a brilliant idea in my opinion,” Porsche driver Xavier Libbrecht told Reuters during a pre-opening event at the drive-in cinema on Wednesday.
[East African] The United Kingdom has added Rwanda and Burundi to its travel ban red list to prevent the spread of new variants of Covid-19.
IT is now a lot easier for residents of 12 infirmaries and two golden age homes across the island to stay in touch with their families who have been asked to stay away since March.On Wednesday Digicel presented each location with two smartphones each, part of a Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development drive to help families keep in touch, despite the physical distance that comes with fighting the novel coronavirus pandemic.
\"Thank you so much for keeping me happy, for keeping me alive. Thank you,\" she lovingly said as she grabbed her stomach.
Masaka Town dwellers have been left in panic after two motor vehicle mechanics were identified as some of the people whose samples tested positive for Covid-19 on the weekend.
The confirmed patients are mechanics working for a businessman in Masaka town, according to Mr Herman Ssentongo, the Masaka resident district commissioner.
Mr Ssentongo, who also chairs the district Covid-19 task force, said the duo could have contracted the virus from the driver of a cargo truck they repaired.
Masaka is among the first districts that recorded Covid-19 cases in late March after a businessman who had just returned from United Arab Emirates infected his wife and a daughter in Nyendo, a Masaka Town suburb.
Masaka Regional Referral Hospital has so far discharged four Covid-19 patients and remains with 21 patients, occupying all the existing beds at the isolation centre.
Ole Sereni, a four-star hotel bordering Nairobi National Park, has introduced social distancing conferencing in which seats are about two metres apart in all directions.
Lockdown of five hotspot counties and the months-long dusk-to-dawn curfew may be removed in the coming days, the President said, adding that Kenyans will have to learn to live with the virus.
Before that, the government had announced a 21-day extension of the night curfew and lockdowns affecting Nairobi, Mombasa, Kilifi, Kwale and Mandera counties to June 6.
Those that can afford will provide transport to staff to limit their exposure to coronavirus as much as possible
The elevator, a key daily conduit for thousands of people, is a potential place for infections.
Companies have given guidelines reducing the number of people that can use a lift at a time.
In the last few decades, millions of unskilled workers from South Asia have migrated to Gulf countries due to limited opportunities at home.
In 2019, migrant workers from South Asian countries sent back $122 billion to their home countries, according to the World Bank.
The steep fall in oil prices slashes major source of revenues for the energy-rich Gulf states, a favorite destination of South Asia’s migrant workers.
Amnesty International reports that about 23 million migrant workers living in the Middle East have had their work hours cut short and lost their jobs, reducing their ability to send home money to families dependent on remittances.
This recent fall in remittances is the sharpest in recent history, World Bank projections show, adversely affecting millions of vulnerable unskilled workers.
May 17 : 5,621 cases, three Dubai returnees infected
\tTotal confirmed cases = 5,621 (new cases = 176)
Total recoveries = 1,472
Total deaths = 176
Active cases = 3,973
\tFigures valid as of close of day May 16, 2020
\tThree people who recently returned from the United Arab Emirates on an evacuation flight have tested positive for COVID-19.
May 16: 5,445 cases, govt on evacuees expenses
\tTotal confirmed cases = 5,445 (new cases = 288)
Total recoveries = 1,320
Total deaths = 171
Active cases = 3,959
\tFigures valid as of close of day May 15, 2020
\tDuring their press briefing on Friday, the presidential task force covered a wide range of issues relative to the spread of the virus and containment efforts.
May 15: 5,162 cases, Canada evacuation hits snag
\tTotal confirmed cases = 5,162 (new cases = 193)
Total recoveries = 1,180
Total deaths = 167
Active cases = 3,815
\tFigures valid as of close of day May 14, 2020
\tSpeaking at the daily briefing of the presidential task force, Foreign Affairs Minister Geoffrey Onyeama disclosed that evacuation plans from Canada had hit a glitch.
May 14: 4,971 cases, recoveries pass 1,000
\tTotal confirmed cases = 4,971 (new cases = 184)
Total recoveries = 1,070
Total deaths = 164
Active cases = 3,737
\tOver in north-eastern Yobe State, there are reports of mysterious deaths which authorities say have led to 471 being buried in the past five weeks.
National coordinator for the presidential task force on COVID-19 last week said the Kano deaths were virus-related but Health Minister Osagie Ehanire later said the investigations were yet to be concluded.
Tessica Brown’s hair experiment went viral.
Sudan's transitional government and the United States (US) are poised to reach an agreement for Khartoum to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation to victims of a 1998 al-Qaeda attack.
Delisting would relieve Sudan from a long list of damaging sanctions, including: bans on buying US arms and on US economic aid; a US veto of loans from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank; and a prohibition on US citizens engaging in financial transactions with Sudan.
Recall that the reason the victims of the 1998 bombings were granted the right to seek compensation from Sudan was because 'Sudan had knowingly served as a safe haven near the two United States embassies and allowed al-Qaeda to plan and train for the attacks,' as US District Court Judge John Bates found in 2011.
Now, with last year's ousting of Omar al-Bashir - the president who gave Al-Qaeda the springboard to attack the US embassies - Sudan seems poised to become an important regional ally of the greatest enemy of the radical Islamists.
Judd Devermont, Africa Director of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, says even if the US lifts its block on Sudan's access to such loans, Sudan will have to pay its arrears before they'll lend it new money.
By SHEIKH SAALIQ and KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — When Vinod K. Jose, executive editor of The Caravan, India's leading investigating magazine, logged onto Twitter on Monday, he was shocked to find the magazine's account blocked. Jose was already dealing with a case of sedition and other charges against him, the magazine owners and a freelance journalist. At the heart of the allegations is the magazine's coverage of the ongoing farmers' protests that have gripped India for more than two months. As the farmers camp out at the edges of the capital, protesting new agricultural laws they […]
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Yotam Gidron has done us all a huge service by putting Israel and Africa back on the agenda.
Sub-Saharan Africa allows Israel to triangulate its commercial, security and longer-term political interests; it can sell its specialized security technologies and consolidate links with evangelical churches that are linked to pro-Zionist churches in the United States.
African leaders are always on the lookout for more efficient technologies of repression, and insofar as the \"war on terror\" gave them a political cover story, Israel stepped in as a supplier unhindered by human rights legislation.
Israel's security strategy for Africa isn't an updated version of Cold War-style ideological alignment but rather a fusion of the principles of transactional politics--the transnational political marketplace--with specialist service provision drawn from its counter-terror assemblage.
This is where Israel steps in: in Washington's eyes, a country that recognizes Israel and cooperates with it cannot be a state sponsor of terror.
Algiers — Several decisions were unanimously adopted at the 179th meeting of the Conference of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and the 11th OPEC and Non-OPEC ministerial meeting held Saturday to stabilize the oil market, the Energy Ministry said in a statement.
Taking into account the current fundamentals and the recent prospects of the international oil market, the countries participating in the proceedings of the 11th ministerial meeting of Opep and non-Opep countries and the 179th Opep Ministerial Conference, under the chairmanship of Minister of Energy and current Chairman of OPEC Conference Mohamed Arkab, have decided to take several decisions aimed at ensuring the stability of the black gold prices, the same source said.
The other decision endorsed by the Opec and non-Opec countries is the decision to convene the Joint Ministerial Monitoring Committee (JMMC) every month to monitor the implementation of the oil supply reduction agreement.
In this context, the 11th meeting of the Opec + countries reaffirmed the continuing commitment of the producer countries signatories of the Declaration of Cooperation (DoC) to a \"stable market, in the mutual interest of the producer countries, the efficient and secure supply of oil to consumers and in the interest of the world economy.\"
Announcing that the next meeting of the Joint Ministerial Follow-up Committee (JMMC) is scheduled for 18 June, the Opec and non-Opec countries agreed to hold a ministerial meeting in Vienna on 1 December.
By ALAN FRAM and BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A fiercely divided House has tossed Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene off both her committees, an unprecedented punishment that Democrats said she'd earned by spreading hateful and violent conspiracy theories. Underscoring the political vise her inflammatory commentary has clamped her party into, nearly all Republicans voted against the Democratic move Thursday but none defended her lengthy history of outrageous social media posts. Yet in a riveting moment, the freshman Republican from a deep-red corner of Georgia took to the House floor on her own behalf. She offered a mixture of […]
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The UN Security Council called Thursday for \"sustained efforts\" in preventing the illegal trade of natural resources from the DR Congo, as gold in particular fuels conflict between armed groups in the region.
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa’s son, Collins, yesterday distanced himself from Delish Nguwaya, whose firm Drax International was recently controversially awarded a US$1 million contract to supply COVID-19 equipment without going to tender.
Collins said he had no business or personal relationship with Drax International and Nguwaya.
I have no business or personal relationship with any Drax International’s representatives, including Delish Nguwaya.”
Collins’ statement also came shortly after Drax International had issued a statement claiming their transaction with government was procedural, although Finance ministry secretary George Guvamatanga admitted in another leaked memo that they had breached government procurement procedures.
He also disclosed that an order to suspend Drax International’s US$60 million for supply of pharmaceuticals to NatPharm was made on the basis that the goods were over-priced, but went on to order the Finance ministry to go ahead and pay for a consignment of test kits from the same company
“Regarding the suspension of the US$20 million and the cancellation of the US$40 million contracts, Treasury position still stands and will only be reviewed once the fiscal capacity for repayment has improved, review of the pricing structures has been done and proper procurement procedures are observed and finalised in consultation with Treasury,” Guvamatanga wrote.
Forces loyal to Libya’s internationally recognized government have seized a major airbase south of Tripoli from rival forces who have been trying to take over Libya for more than a year.
A top military commander says the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA) has complete control of al-Watiya airbase.
The GMA controls the capital, Tripoli, but the LNA controls eastern and southern Libya, most of the oil fields and refineries, and the key Mediterranean port of Sirte.
The GMA is the United Nations-installed government, and the LNA is Haftar’s rival administration, headquartered in eastern Libya.
Egypt, Russia and the United Arab Emirates are the LNA’s chief backers, while Turkey has sent drones and defensive equipment to the GNA.
