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Unsightly landfills and litter in parks and even beaches continuously choke our environment.

July 2, 2020

Plastic Free Day: How can Kenyan businesses take responsibility for plastic waste?

By Karin BoomsmaNAIROBI — For decades now, the world has almost entirely depended on a linear economy that focuses on taking, making, using and disposing of finite resources. This cradle to grave model is fixed on an industrial mindset where producers assume the resources they use are unlimited and therefore are never restored.In this case, short-term profits are placed at the top of the pyramid, at the expense of people ...

A 2017 file photo shows the construction site of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam in Guba in the North West of Ethiopia,

June 27, 2020

Ethiopia will not fill Nile Dam without reaching deal: Sudan

CAIRO — Sudan, Ethiopia and Egypt agreed that Ethiopia will not start filling its giant Nile Dam without reaching an agreement between them, Reuters quoted Sudan's state news agency as saying Saturday.The Egyptian presidency also said in a statement that Ethiopia will not fill the dam unilaterally, after leaders from the three countries and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, who chairs the African Union, held an online summit.It was unveiled ...

A High-Level Sudan Partnership Conference in Berlin acknowledged young people, especially women and girls, as drivers of change for a democratic, free and peaceful country. — courtesy UNAMID/Amin Ismail

June 26, 2020

$1.8 billion pledged to assist Sudan’s people on the road to peace and democracy

BERLIN — A High-Level Sudan Partnership Conference took place on Thursday gathering some 50 countries and international organizations together in Berlin, generating pledges to bolster the African nation’s economic and political transformation to the tune of $1.8 billion, and discuss the challenges that lie ahead.One year after the fall of Sudan’s former longtime ruler, Omar Al-Bashir, the country’s dire economic situation, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, continues to present massive ...

File photo shows the ongoing construction work on Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance Dam on the river Nile in Ethiopia.

June 20, 2020

Egypt calls for UN intervention in talks on Ethiopia's Grand Renaissance Dam

CAIRO — Egypt on Friday called on the United Nations Security Council to intervene to restart talks on the hydroelectric dam being built by Ethiopia on the Blue Nile near the border with Sudan, Reuters reported.Talks over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam were halted once again this week, this time only about a fortnight before its expected start-up."The Arab Republic of Egypt took this decision in light of the stalled ...

File photo of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).

June 14, 2020

Egypt dismayed at Nile talks progress

CAIRO — Egypt regretted on Saturday that there was no apparent progress in ongoing negotiations over a controversial Nile dam due to “Ethiopia’s continuous intransigence”.The water and irrigation ministers of Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia commenced the Khartoum-brokered virtual talks on June 9 in the presence of international observers, including the United States, the European Union, South Africa and the African Union.Saturday was scheduled to be the final day of negotiations ...

Some 300 drivers, including motorcycle taxi drivers, in Bangui, Central African Republic, received information about preventive measures to fight the coronavirus. — courtesy MINUSCA/Biliaminou A. Alao

June 12, 2020

WHO urges constant vigilance as cases top 200,000 in Africa

GENEVA — COVID-19 is accelerating in Africa, with more than 200,000 cases and more than 5,600 deaths, the regional office for the World Health Organization (WHO) reported on Thursday.Africa recorded its first case of the new disease in mid-February. While it took nearly 100 days to reach 100,000 cases, the jump to 200,000 cases occurred in less than 20.“For now, Africa still only accounts for a small fraction of cases ...

Medical workers in protective suits carry the body of a man who died of COVID-19, before he is buried in Mogadishu, last week. -- Courtesy photos

May 19, 2020

One hospital for 15mn in the world's ‘worst prepared’ country

By Emily JuddWITH only one dedicated COVID-19 hospital for 15 million people, Somalia is bracing for a catastrophic coronavirus outbreak, doctors warn.The single hospital equipped for coronavirus patients, located in the capital city of Mogadishu, has only 20 ICU beds, according to Dr. Deqo Mohamed, a senior doctor working at the hospital.“We have over 1,400 cases confirmed and almost 70 percent of daily testing comes back positive. That can tell ...

A nursing home worker and a medic are seen at the Life Care Center of Kirkland in Washington in this March 7, 202 file picture. — Courtesy photo

March 27, 2020

US overtakes China with most coronavirus cases

WASHINGTON — The United States now has more coronavirus cases than any other country in the world, overtaking.According to the latest figures collated by Johns Hopkins University and released on Thursday, the US has more than 85,500 positive tests, overtaking China (81,782 cases) and Italy (80,589). However, Italy tops the list with 8,215 coronavirus-related deaths. China has reported 3,291 fatalities and US deaths have neared 1,300.As US took the grim title ...

People pass a banner reading ‘STOP EBOLA’ forming part of Sierra Leone's Ebola free campaign in the city of Freetown, Sierra Leone, in this file photo.

March 24, 2020

How corona-free Sierra Leone has learned from Ebola menace

By Muhammed NafieDUBAI -- Sierra Leone is one of those few countries where no coronavirus cases have been confirmed as of March 23.As a country which had borne the brunt of the 2014-16 Ebola outbreak with 14,124 infections and 3,956 confirmed deaths, Sierra Leone has taken no chances since the new coronavirus pandemic started spreading through Western Africa.Before the coronavirus outbreak, Sierra Leone was one of the two countries in ...

Ethiopia's probe of last year's Ethiopian Airlines crash found that Boeing did not provide sufficient pilot training for the 737 MAX and that crucial flight software was flawed, according to an interim report published Monday.

March 9, 2020

Boeing pilot training on 737 MAX 'inadequate': Ethiopia crash report

ADDIS ABABA — Ethiopia's probe of last year's Ethiopian Airlines crash found that Boeing did not provide sufficient pilot training for the 737 MAX and that crucial flight software was flawed, according to an interim report published Monday.The crash of the Nairobi-bound Boeing 737 MAX six minutes after takeoff on March 10, 2019, killed all 157 people on board, triggering the global grounding of the MAX and the worst crisis ...

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