[ad_1] Chrispen Rambu, a Chipinge councilor and member of the opposition MDC, was called by the police for making an unfavorable comparison of Mnangagwa with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa. File: The President of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa. Image: Abigail Xavier / EWN HARARE – An opposition municipal official has been …
Read More »Guide body of missing Koreans found in Himalayas
[ad_1] A wall of snow hit hikers some 3,230 meters near Annapurna Base Camp in Nepal on January 17. But avalanches and more snowfall have made it too dangerous to launch a proper hunt. Generic avalanche. Image: Pixabay. NEPAL – Search teams searching for the bodies of four South Koreans …
Read More »Covid-19: 200 Cuban doctors hope to land in SA
[ad_1] More than 200 Cuban health professionals are expected to arrive in South Africa on Sunday to help the country in its fight against Covid-19, according to Cuban Ambassador Rodolfo Benítez Verson. The 217 members of the “Medical Brigade” include family doctors, epidemiologists, biologists, health technology experts, engineering experts, biotechnology …
Read More »Malawi court extends lockdown suspension
[ad_1] The court blocked the order to stay home last week after human rights groups filed a petition against the closure. BLANTYRE – The Malawi High Court on Friday extended an order temporarily prohibiting the government from implementing a 21-day blockade despite the increase in the number of coronavirus cases. …
Read More »Trump says spoke ‘sarcastically’ about injecting disinfectants
[ad_1] During a press conference late Thursday, Trump turned to government scientists in the room and asked them about the role of disinfectants in killing the coronavirus. WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump on Friday played down a furor over his suggestion that people could try injecting disinfectants to fight the …
Read More »The number of viruses nears 200,000 as the UN pushes for the global vaccine effort
[ad_1] The global death toll from coronavirus approached 200,000 on Saturday when the United Nations launched an international push for a vaccine to defeat the pandemic. Governments around the world are fighting to limit the economic devastation unleashed by the virus, which has infected nearly 2.8 million people and left …
Read More »Second tests confirm that the woman died of Covid-19
[ad_1] The Herald Paidamoyo Chipunza Senior Health Reporter The second tests of Covid-19 carried out on samples taken from the late Gogo Nguni were positive. The second tests were necessary due to information from Gogo Nguni’s relatives, who insisted that the now deceased person lived on an isolated farm, never …
Read More »Trump’s Covid-19 disinfection ideas horrify health experts
[ad_1] By Kate Kelland and Raphael Satter 9h ago Share this article: SharecheepShareShareShareEmailShare LONDON / WASHINGTON – United States President Donald Trump’s reflections on whether the injection of disinfectants could treat horrified Covid-19 medical professionals on Friday and raised new concerns that his briefings could make people scared become poisoned …
Read More »Stranded in a war zone: anti-apartheid veteran desperate to return home
[ad_1] Stranded in the midst of a civil war in Mogadishu, Somalia, veteran anti-apartheid and constitutional expert Hassen Ebrahim has waited a long time to return home. Thousands of South Africans are stranded around the world and have called on the government to help them return home, but closing regulations …
Read More »In pictures: big and small animals come out and play
[ad_1] CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA – MARCH 27: A general view of the Green Market Square on Day 1 of the national closure on March 27, 2020 in Cape Town, South Africa. (Photo by Gallo Images / Brenton Geach) While the world is locked up, here is an incomplete but …
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