Summary Australia to give $10m in aid Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Tuesday said his government would provide an “initial” $10m in aid, to go to humanitarian groups. “Australia’s assistance will target those in greatest need,” he said, expressing his condolences to those affected. New Zealand’s Prime Minister Chris Hipkins, who is visiting Australia,…
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UN: Fake medicines kill almost 440,000 sub-Saharan Africans a year
In sub-Saharan Africa, as many as 267,000 deaths per year are linked to falsified and substandard antimalarial medicines, a United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) report found. In addition, up to 169,271 are linked to falsified and substandard antibiotics used to treat severe pneumonia in children. Trafficking these products is also taking a direct economic toll…
US tracking suspected Chinese surveillance balloon
The US is tracking a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon that has been spotted flying over sensitive sites in recent days. Defence officials said they were confident the “high-altitude surveillance balloon” belonged to China. It was most recently seen above the western state of Montana. But military leaders decided against shooting it down as there were…
Mt. Elgon Landslides: Families To Get 17M To Relocate
Last Updated at 10:20 EAT on 02nd February 2023 by HICGI By Our Reporter The Government of Uganda has earmarked a compensation package of shs.17 million, to relocate people settled in landslide prone areas in the Elgon region. The affected Families are expected to use that money to relocate to areas of their choice. Prime…
Hands off Africa! Stop choking Africa, it is not a mine to be stripped or a terrain to be plundered.” Pope Francis in DR Congo as A million celebrate Kinshasa Mass.
By Cecilia Macaulay E K Benj & Aleem Maqbool Pope Francis has celebrated one of his biggest Masses, with around a million attendees in Democratic Republic of Congo’s capital, estimates say. Huge crowds started to gather in Kinshasa well before dawn, including scores of schoolgirls dressed in white who danced along the Pope’s route. A…
30-year-old defies Ebola lockdown to pass exam
A 30-year-old has joined hundreds of the PLE candidates in celebrating success after defying the Ebola lockdown setback to pass all his papers.Mr Tom Tumusiime, a father of three children and resident of Lusalira Village, Kibalinga Sub-county in Mubende District, scored Agg 27 with a Credit 6 in English, Pass 7 (Science), Pass 7 (SST)…
Tunisia votes again for a parliament stripped of power by the president
Tunisians voted again on Sunday in elections for a parliament stripped of its powers, the final pillar of President Kais Saied’s remake of politics in the birthplace of the Arab Spring. The second-round vote comes as the North African country grapples with a grave economic crisis and deep political divisions over Saied‘s July 2021 power grab. Some 262 candidates, including just…
German chancellor says he won’t send fighter jets to Ukraine
By Antoinette Radford The German chancellor has ruled out sending fighter jets to Ukraine, just days after committing to supplying tanks. In an interview with a German newspaper, Olaf Scholz warned against a bidding war for weapons. But Ukraine has asked allied nations to create a “fighter jet coalition” to bolster their capabilities. The US…
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