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Three people were killed when an illegal gold mine collapsed in southern Ghana and rescuers were trying to reach at least a dozen more trapped inside.
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— Nana Akufo-Addo (@NAkufoAddo) November 12, 2020
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United Nations and private aid agencies warned Friday that an unprecedented number of people in Africa’s volatile Sahel region are in desperate need of life-saving assistance and protection.
Aid agencies say they are alarmed but not surprised by the extent of the humanitarian crisis gripping the Sahel.
Years of conflict in half a dozen countries, terrorist attacks, climate change causing food insecurity and now the COVID-19 pandemic have stripped the population of its ability to protect and provide for itself.
The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reports 24 million people, or 1 in 5 of the Sahel’s total population of 120 million, need international assistance and protection to survive.
They warn this humanitarian crisis could spill into new regions and into West African coastal countries if life-saving needs are ignored.
Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang has been selected by former Ghana president John Mahama as his running mate for this year’s presidential election.
Representing the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), she becomes the first woman on a major Ghanaian party’s presidential ticket.
The 69-year_old Opoku-Agyemang, is a former education minister and university professor. She was also the first female vice-chancellor of the University of Cape Coast in 2008.
The former president called her “God-fearing, a distinguished scholar, a conscientious public servant and a role model”.
The Dec. 7 poll will pit Mahama, who governed from 2012 to early 2017, against his successor, President Nana Akufo-Addo, who defeated him in the late 2016 election.
The presidency has changed hands repeatedly between the ruling New Patriotic Party, NPP and ex-president Mahama’s NDC since 1992 in a series of peaceful elections that have cemented Ghana’s reputation as one of West Africa’s most stable democracies.
Workers check in residents at a mobile COVID-19 testing site set up on a vacant lot in the Austin neighborhood on June 23, 2020 in Chicago, Illinois.
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The sentiment was expressed just as the U.S. continues to see a surge of new infections of the virus.
“We’re not in the situation of New Zealand or Singapore or Korea where a new case is rapidly identified and all the contacts are traced and people are isolated who are sick and people who are exposed are quarantined and they can keep things under control,” she said.
Johns Hopkins University has put together data to show that New Zealand had 89 new cases a day when the virus was ravaging their country in April.
Schuchat added that there were so many outbreaks taking place all at once in the country, which makes it even harder to get the virus under control.
The ministry's daily Covid-19 update, released on June 8, indicated that a dozen new cases had been reported with seven recoveries in the previous 24 hours.
That brought the tally of confirmed cases in the country to 451 of whom more than 65 per cent (297) have since recovered.
Two deaths have been registered since the country first registered a Covid-19 case back in March.
The new cases relate to the Rusizi and Rusumo clusters and have been isolated and contacts traced, according to the Ministry of Health.
The majority of other cases confirmed in recent days are reported to be truck-drivers crossing into the country through the Rusumo border post.
In a country like Kenya, artisanal and small-scale mining represents a significant proportion of gemstone mining.
Taita Taveta County is the largest producer of gemstones, with artisanal and small-scale mining accounting for over 60% of its annual production.
The COVID-19 measures have slowed down artisanal mining activities, which has affected the livelihoods of miners and mining communities.
This involves developing robust mining data and market information systems, mapping gemstone supply chains, developing a calculated risks index, and establishing a well-organised market infrastructure.
It can also coordinate efforts to build capacity for gemstone identification, valuation, marketing and value addition, and artisanal mining financing.
With coronavirus cases climbing, Gov. Abbott says ‘no real need’ to scale back business reopenings
With the number of people hospitalized for the new coronavirus continuing to climb in Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott said Friday that there’s “no real need to ratchet back the opening of businesses in the state.”
The state reported Friday that the number of people hospitalized in Texas who are confirmed to have the coronavirus has increased to a new peak of 2,166.
But as the reopening of businesses continues – as of Friday, restaurants in Texas are allowed to operate at 75% capacity, and almost all businesses can operate at 50% capacity – Abbott and other state officials have kept a close eye on the situation in Texas hospitals.
The number of available beds is seen as a key gauge for the state’s ability to handle a potential surge in coronavirus cases, and Abbott has said the hospitalization rate – the proportion of infected Texans who are requiring hospitalization – is a benchmark he’s closely monitoring.
And while the number of people hospitalized with the virus has climbed, state officials and local hospital leaders have expressed confidence in their capacities.
Hong Kong (CNN)Braving scorching conditions, a new wave of coronavirus infections and government warnings they could be breaking the law, hundreds of thousands of Hong Kongers took part in a primary election for the city's democratic opposition over the weekend. The vote, held 10 days after []
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The Consumer Affairs Commission (CAC) yesterday announced that it has started to make contact with the 381 motorists who have been approved for compensation based on formal complaints they had submitted, and it is now ready to start making payments.
Addressing a virtual media briefing, head of the CAC Dolsie Allen underscored that motorists whose claims were certified by a team established by her agency will be getting an ex gratia payment and not a real settlement.
According to Allen, the CAC received 423 complaints of which 287 were approved for full payment, 94 were approved for partial payment, and 42 were found to not qualify for any compensation.
Allen said the CAC has already started calling the people who are to be compensated based on the claims that they made, and those individuals are being given dates to make contact with the agency for payment.
The CAC head was unable to say the level of payment to be made to each motorist but minister of state in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Floyd Green told the media briefing that claims ranged from a low of $2,000 to a high of more than $700,000.
