Senegalese authorities are removing about 3,050 tons of ammonium nitrate from the port of Dakar. The amount is said to be a larger volume of the chemical that was involved in the August 4 explosion in Beirut. According to a Senegalese environment ministry official, Baba Drame, trucks are moving the hazardous substance to mines in…
Global coronavirus cases surged past 25 million on Sunday, according to a Reuters tally, as India marked a worldwide record for daily new cases in the COVID-19 pandemic. The data showed steady global growth as the disease’s epicenter shifts again, with India taking center stage from the United States and Latin America. India’s single-day tally…
قالت رشا قلج، الرئيس التنفيذي لمؤسسة ميرك الخيرية الدولية، إنها حصدت للمرة الثانية على التوالي لقب السيدات الأكثر تأثيرا في أفريقيا لـ2020 التوالي نظرا لعملها على تخصصات خيرية عدة وأضافت “قلج”، خلال مداخلة هاتفية لها ببرنامج “مساء DMC”، والذي يقدمه الإعلامي رامي رضوان، والمذاع على فضائية “DMC”، أن المؤسسة قامت بنشر التوعية لمكافحة فيروس كورونا،…
Uganda’s Ministry of Health on Wednesday reported 98 new confirmed COVID-19 cases raising the nationwide total to 2,524. Kampala, again, led the way with the most number of cases registering 65 cases or 66 percent. The number of infections reported from Kampala, in particular, which has the highest numbers of community transmissions, has raised concern…
Supporters of former Cote d’Ivoire President Laurent Gbagbo said on Wednesday that they would file for candidacy in his name for the October polls. The announcement comes a day after an Ivorian court confirmed the decision to strike off the former leader from the electoral list due to a 20-year prison sentence. The President Of…
The National Center for Disease Control of Libya on Wednesday reported 553 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total confirmed cases in the country so far to 11,834. The center said in a statement that it received a total of 2,094 suspected samples, of which 553 were tested positive, adding that 40 patients have recovered and…
France’s foreign minister said on Thursday that the transition in Mali needs to be quick, but that the coup d’etat in the country would not stop French military operations targeting Islamist militants. The leaders of the military coup that ousted President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita in Mali on Aug. 18 have told a delegation of West…
Dirk Mudge, a white Namibian who began his political life with the pro-Apartheid National Party but later lobbied for Namibia’s independence from South African white-minority rule, has died after contracting COVID-19, aged 92. He died in a hospital in the capital Windhoek late on Tuesday. A polarizing figure, Mudge’s opponents accused him of delaying Namibia’s…
The U.N. children’s agency says at least a third of children couldn’t access remote learning when the COVID-19 pandemic closed schools, creating “a global education emergency.” At the height of lockdowns meant to curb the pandemic, nearly 1.5 billion children were affected by school closures, UNICEF said. “For at least 463 million children whose schools…
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Wednesday announced an extension to the nationwide dusk-dawn curfew for a further 30 days in an attempt to contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. The extension comes despite progress being made in reducing COVID-19 infections President Kenyatta noted that infections in the country are now at a manageable level…
