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[ad_1] An official from Ethiopia’s Amhara state said TPLF forces fired rockets at the regional capital, Bahir Dar. BAHIR DAR, ETHIOPIA – Tigray forces fired rockets at a neighboring Ethiopian state on Friday, raising fears that internal conflict could spread to other parts of the country, a day after the …

[ad_1] European Council President Charles Michel on Friday (November 20) called on G20 leaders to create “a new sustainable finance model” to avoid sovereign defaults in the aftermath of the COVID-19 crisis. “In our opinion, it is not enough,” Michel said of the G20 Debt Service Suspension Initiative, which has …

[ad_1] NAIROBI, Nov.20 (Xinhua) – Kenya’s Treasury said on Friday that it has not requested a suspension of debt payments under the G20 COVID-19 initiative aimed at helping poor countries contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. Ukur Yatani, cabinet secretary for the National Treasury, said he was encouraged that …

[ad_1] The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Romania has surpassed 400,000 since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, reaching 403,123, and the death toll now stands at 9,756, official data showed on Friday. In the past 24 hours, another 9,272 cases were confirmed and 160 people died, according to …

[ad_1] ADDIS ABABA, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) – The African Union (AU) Commission on Thursday stressed that Africa’s fight against the COVID-19 pandemic “is far from over.” The statement was made by Amira Elfadil, the AU Commissioner for Social Affairs, during the occasion when the African Development Bank (AfDB) approved a …

[ad_1] FILE – In this Friday, February 1, 2019 file photo, Matshidiso Moeti, World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Director for Africa. (Salvatore Di Nolfi / Keystone via AP, file) FILE – In this Friday, February 1, 2019 file photo, Matshidiso Moeti, World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Director for Africa. (Salvatore …

[ad_1] GENEVA The UN and its international partners are working on a response plan for some 2,000,000 refugees who could arrive over the next six months from the conflict-ravaged region of Tigray in Ethiopia, a refugee agency official said on Friday. from the ONU. Axel Bisschop, UNHCR representative in Sudan, …

[ad_1] South Sudan, Chad and Eritrea are the worst African countries to live in as a girl, according to a unique index of its kind found on Friday, and researchers warned that the pandemic could delay efforts to keep girls in school, out of work. and without employment. safe from …

[ad_1] In this opinion piece, Prof. Agnes Binagwaho, MD, MPEd, Ph.D. The Vice Chancellor of the University for Equity in Global Health in Kigali, Rwanda, and her research associate Kedest Mathewos explain why African countries fared much better than their Western counterparts in the fight against COVID-19. In 2019, the …

[ad_1] GENEVA, November 20, 2020 – This is a summary of what Abdullah Fadil, UNICEF Representative in Sudan, to whom the quoted text can be attributed, said at today’s press conference at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.. “The first thing we notice is that about 45 percent of the …