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BOGOTA, (Reuters) - Highly-trained Colombian soldiers left at a loose end after retirement have frequently been tempted by opportunities to ply their trade abroad as private military contractors from Iraq to Yemen, military officials and experts said yesterday.
The article Why were Colombian ex-soldiers in Haiti? appeared first on Stabroek News.
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.
Recently released court documents showed a group of Louisiana State Troopers joked about beating a Black man in a group text, pointing to a larger pattern of police brutality among officers in the northeast part of the state.
A senior military officer identified as Dahir Sheikh Ahmed has been killed in the battle between the police and the Somalia National Army in Mogadishu.
According to a witness, Abdi Dhuub who spoke to Dalsan, the fighting started when police sought to confiscate khat that had been smuggled in by the Somalia National Army.
WHO supports accelerated response efforts for contact tracing in Somalia as cases surge in Somalia So far, four people have been killed in the fighting taking place in Zona, Hodan district.
Most of the military officers had been in the city vising families, but the police force want them out since they are heavily armed, compromising security.
Arkansas' oldest serving police officer, turning 92 next month, says he'll retire when the Lord tells him it's time.
ISLAMABAD - In a rare goodwill gesture in the tense disputed region of Kashmir, Indian Army officers on Dec. 5 allowed two teenage sisters who had inadvertently crossed the border from the Pakistan-administered side to return home within a day. The repatriation of 17-year-old Laiba Zubair and her 13-year-old sister Sana Zubair was a peaceful event during months of heavy […]
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WASHINGTON, United States (AP) - In an extraordinary rebuke of President Donald Trump, all 10 living former secretaries of defence are cautioning against any move to involve the military in pursuing claims of election fraud, arguing that it would take the country into 'dangerous, unlawful and unconstitutional territory'.
[Daily Trust] Malam Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to The President on Media and Publicity, says there is a strong suspicion that choppers are being used to ferry arms for bandits.
This time a yr in the past, Alex Zverev was about to embark on the journey of a lifetime, getting the rock-star therapy as he and Roger Federer jetted round…
Just about everyone can agree this was long overdue.
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Peres Jepchirchir's star shone once more to simply classify 2020 her year after the Kenyan set a new women's Valencia Marathon course record of 2:17:16 on Sunday in Spain.
Kaizer Chiefs head coach Gavin Hunt has confirmed Itumeleng Khune is no longer the club's captain and his replacement has been announced.
Quarterback Tom Brady, who led the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to the NFL title last season, is recovering from offseason surgery.
