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A car bomb exploded at a checkpoint near Somalia's presidential palace Saturday, killing eight people, police said, as the Al-Shabaab jihadist group claimed responsibility for the attack.
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.
[SNA] Khartoum -- Minister of Religious Affairs and Endowment , Nasr Edden Mufreh has congratulated the Sudanese people on the revocation of the country's name from the US list of Religious Freedoms, a matter that represents important event and preamble for lifting the country's name from the list of the countries sponsoring terrorism.
It is going to be a hard Christmas for many Americans.
By Chuck Chandler Alabama Newscenter Brother Bryan Mission of Birmingham has completed the second-largest purchase in its 80-year history, paying $340,000 for a neighboring building in an effort to soon provide beds for 100 men. The city’s oldest mission currently is able to house 76 men for its addiction recovery and back-to-work programs, said Executive Director […]
[East African] Tourism stakeholders are optimistic over industry's recovery following Kenya Airways resumption of service on the Nairobi-New York route on November 29, despite low bookings ahead of the Christmas holiday.
“Fifty years of making a seat at the table and building a pipeline for those to come, and 50 years as the ‘Conscience of the Congress,'” said Congresswoman Bass, adding, “On behalf of the entire Congressional Black Caucus, congratulations to the members of the Executive Committee for the 117th Congress.”
The number of people forced to flee their homes passed 80 million in 2020, the UN refugee agency said in a report released Wednesday in Geneva.
According to UNHCR’s Mid-Year Trends report on forced displacement, the figure includes 45.7 million internally displaced people (IDPs), 29.6 million refugees and others forcibly displaced outside their country, and 4.2 million asylum seekers.
The report said persecution, conflict, and human rights violations were the main factors forcing people to flee.
Violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mozambique, Somalia and Yemen all contributed to driving new displacements in the first half of 2020.
“We are now surpassing another bleak milestone that will continue to grow unless world leaders stop wars”, said Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees.
The Sahel region, which is battling a brutal militant insurgency has also seen fresh displacement according to the report.
The UNHCR said plans to resettle refugees were affected by the outbreak of the coronavirus.
The report adds that at the peak of the first wave of the pandemic in April, 168 countries and regions fully or partially closed their borders, with 90 countries and regions making no exception for people seeking asylum.
As a result, only 17,400 refugees were resettled in the first six months of 2020, half the figure of 2019.
Five Artists Share $70,000 in Eighteenth Cycle Five recipients of the Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowships for Individual Artists have been selected from a field of 151 applicants in the eighteenth annual competition. Ck Ledesma and Nirmal Raja were chosen in the Established Artist category and will each receive a $20,000 fellowship. […]
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Students, teachers, parents, and administrators face ever-rising challenges as the coronavirus pandemic continues to force…
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MSNBC has named Rashida Jones its next president, making her the first Black executive to run a major general news cable network, The Wall Street Journal reported. Jones, who currently serves as the senior vice president of NBC News and MSNBC, will replace longtime president […]
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by Sherri Kolade President-elect Joe Biden plans to have retired Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III to be secretary of defense, according to three officials in the know with the decision. If confirmed, Austin would be the firstBlack Pentagon chief, according to aWashington Post story. Austin, 67, grew to become a four-star general in the Army … Continued
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School officials disclosed that Johns Hopkins, the 19th-century businessman with a university and hospital named after him, owned slaves. According... View Article
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[allAfrica] As of December 9, the confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries have reached 2,286,768. Reported deaths in Africa have reached 54,520 and recoveries 1,954,729.
By Associated Press Undefined BEIJING (AP) — The world's highest mountain is now officially a little higher, and that might not be the end of the story. China and Nepal agreed this week on a new standard height for Mount Everest, the rugged Himalayan peak that straddles their border. As definitive as that sounds, geological changes, the complicated business of measuring a mountain and varying criteria for determining the world's highest peak will likely ensure the question isn't settled for good. GEOLOGICAL UPS AND DOWNS The mountain's height changes. The movement of tectonic plates can lift it up ever so […]
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Kenya’s Kibiwott Kandie smashed the half marathon world file by 29 seconds on Sunday, changing into the primary particular person to interrupt 58 minutes on the Valencia Half Marathon.
Kandie, who completed second on the world half marathon championships in Gdynia in October, completed the Spanish annual race in 57 minutes and 32 seconds, breaking the earlier file of 58:01 set by compatriot Geoffrey Kamworor in September 2019.
The highest 4 males all ran beneath the earlier world finest, with Jacob Kiplimo of Uganda ending second in 57:37, Kenyan Rhonex Kipruto third in 57:49 and Kenyan Alexander Mutiso taking fourth place in 57:59.
Kandie, 24, led the chasing pack, which included reigning world champion Kiplimo, by way of the 15-kilometre mark in 41:10.
The pair traded the lead over the following six km earlier than Kandie made the decisive transfer, to complete greater than a minute off his earlier private better of 58:37.
Ethiopia’s Genzebe Dibaba gained the ladies’s race in 1:05:18, setting the quickest time for a debut over the space.
[The Herald] INVICTUS Energy, the Australia firm currently exploring for oil and gas in the Muzarabani area, is almost certain to face demands from residents and the local leadership to prioritise employment of locals and investment in community initiatives like road, bridge and dam construction if it makes a commercial discovery.
It’s the news we have all been fearing - if not expecting. Zweli Mkhize has revealed a second wave of COVID-19 is now sweeping across South Africa.
The Winston-Salem/Forsyth County chapter of the NAACP has chosen Al Jabbar to become their next president.
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By Associated Press Undefined SENECA FALLS, N.Y. (AP) — 'Queen of Soul' Aretha Franklin and Nobel laureate and 'Beloved' author Toni Morrison will be inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame Thursday as part of a posthumous class of Black honorees that also includes Henrietta Lacks, whose cells were widely used in biomedical research; Barbara Hillary, the first Black woman to travel to both the North and South Poles, and civil rights activists Barbara Rose Johns Powell and Mary Church Terrell. The evening ceremony will be the first in a series of planned virtual inductions meant to correct a […]
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[New Era] Namibia Rugby Union (NRU) chief executive officer, Theo Grunewald, says the financial grants that will soon be coming from the continental rugby governing body Rugby Africa will be used for various developmental projects.
By RAF CASERT and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The leaders of Britain and the European Union were meeting Wednesday for a dinner that could pave the way to a post-Brexit trade deal — or tip the two sides toward a chaotic economic rupture at the end of the month. Early-morning comments from both sides insisting that it was for the other to compromise only highlighted the difficult task ahead for U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. They have just a few hours over a multi-course meal to unstick negotiations that […]
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The Subsidies Will Result in the Creation or Rehabilitation of Nearly 3,000 Housing Units DALLAS, TEXAS, December 1, 2020 – The Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas (FHLB Dallas) is pleased to announce that, in partnership with its member financial institutions, it has awarded $19.3 million in Affordable Housing Program (AHP) subsidies to 38 projects in […]
(Jamaica Observer) APPROXIMATELY 450,000 Jamaicans are to be immunised against the novel coronavirus next year, when the first batch of vaccines are expected to be shipped to the island, Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has reported.
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Artist Guy Stanley Philoche had just had an amazing sold-out show and was getting ready to reward himself with a beautiful Rolex watch worth $20,000 when coronavirus struck. Soon, New York City, where he lived, became a COVID-19 epicenter. With many families unable to afford basic necessities like food, Philoche realized that spending that huge...
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President-electJoe Bidenwill reportedly nominate Rep.Marcia Fudgeas Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. The appointment of HUD secretary would make Fudge the second Black woman to lead the agency. Politicoexclusivelyreportedon Tuesday that sources confirmed that Biden would select the Ohio Democrat. A formal announcement is expected later in the week. She is the second Black person […]
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