Cairo – Wandering Cairo’s bustling streets, Zeinab was struggling to survive by selling tissues when the coronavirus left her even more vulnerable, along with thousands of other homeless people and street children. The only good news was that, amid the pandemic fears, physical violence against the destitute has declined, Zeinab told AFP at a mobile...
PORT ELIZABETH – The tentacles of coronavirus have snaked into South Africa’s Eastern Cape province, delving stealthily into its under-equipped hospitals and impoverished townships. The province is the third worst-affected in South Africa, which has recorded over a quarter of a million coronavirus cases since March – the highest in Africa. In the industrial capital...
Lusaka – Zambia’s government on Tuesday rejected claims President Edgar Lungu had bankrolled a Rwandan rebel leader accused of orchestrating deadly attacks in his country’s border regions. The claims were made by the rebel chief, Callixte Nsabimana, who is on trial for terrorism and other charges. He has already admitted to working with other foreign...
Lusaka – Zambia’s government on Tuesday rejected claims President Edgar Lungu had bankrolled a Rwandan rebel leader accused of orchestrating deadly attacks in his country’s border regions. The claims were made by the rebel chief, Callixte Nsabimana, who is on trial for terrorism and other charges. He has already admitted to working with other foreign...
Hong Kong – Millions of people faced new coronavirus restrictions yesterday as infections surge, but in one sign of hope, an American firm said it would soon start final-stage human trials for a possible vaccine. Countries around the world re-imposed lockdowns and curbs to contain new outbreaks, as global cases surged past 13.2 million with...
Beirut – Zakaria al-Omar was walking through Beirut when a stranger robbed him at knifepoint, a desperate crime of a kind that has become increasingly common in crisis-torn Lebanon. The small Mediterranean country is mired in an economic crisis marked by a steep currency fall and runaway inflation that have plunged nearly half of the...
Santiago – Police in Chile are training dogs to detect people that may be infected with the novel coronavirus by sniffing their sweat. The dogs – three golden retrievers and a labrador – are between the ages of four and five. Until now they have been used to sniff out illicit drugs, explosives and lost...
Sport is a major contributor to economic and social development, the contribution sports make to individuals and communities, the empowerment of women and young people, as well as to health, education and social inclusion is massive. This crisis has come on hard and fast. In many ways, when live professional sports were put on hold,...
New York – The United States government rescinded its controversial decision to revoke foreign student visas whose courses move online due to coronavirus, a federal judge said Tuesday. The universities of Harvard and MIT – with the support of a number of other institutions, teachers’ unions and at least 18 US states – had taken...
Moscow – The Russian defence ministry said on yesterday it had developed a “safe” coronavirus vaccine following clinical trials on a group of volunteers. The ministry said 18 people had participated in the research and were discharged without “serious adverse events, health complaints, complications or side effects”. The results of the trials “allow us to...