[ad_1] Download logo The Ministry of Foreign Affairs hosted the launch of the Egypt Chapter in the Regional Refugee and Resilience Plan 2020-2021 in response to the Syrian Crisis (3RP) and the Egypt Response Plan for refugees and asylum seekers from Sub-Saharan Africa , Iraq and Yemen 2020-2021 (ERP) on …
Read More »Gender-based violence: an unaddressed national challenge
[ad_1] By Etenesh Abera @EteneshAb Y Bileh jelan @Bilejelan Addis Ababa, October 6, 2020 – According to a report published by UNDP on gender-based violence (GBV), violence against women increases during all types of emergencies, be it conflict or war, economic crisis and disease outbreaks. Data from neighboring Kenya show …
Read More »Ethiopia: Call to avoid delays in road construction
[ad_1] In order to complete several highway construction projects in the metropolis on time, particular attention must be paid to the causes of delay in such activities, as noted when Deputy Mayor Adanech Abebe, Finance Minister Ahmed Shede and Governor of the National Bank, Dr. Yinager Dessie, I visited several …
Read More »Nigeria aims to renovate refineries and end oil-for-fuel exchanges
[ad_1] CAPE TOWN, Oct 6 (Reuters) – Nigeria aims to end the country’s so-called oil-for-fuel swap system in the near future and instead rely on petroleum products from local refineries, which it hopes to have in operational again for 2023. the head of Nigeria’s national oil company, NNPC, said on …
Read More »Condemnation grows for the execution of 15 dissidents in Egypt
[ad_1] Days before World Day Against the Death Penalty, the execution of 15 political dissidents in Egypt sparked condemnation from human rights groups. The Geneva Council for Rights and Freedoms criticized the Egyptian government for executing the death sentence through security authorities against 15 detainees within 24 hours of “trials …
Read More »How SARS-COV-2 traveled to West Africa
[ad_1] Oct 6, 2020 With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, medical research has focused on tracing the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 infection, which was first reported in the Chinese city of Wuhan, in late 2020. Image Credit: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.02.323519v1.full By June 2020, all African countries had reported COVID-19 cases. A …
Read More »Joshua Cheptegei will easily break the 10km world record, predicts legend Haile Gebrselassie
[ad_1] Gebrselassie says the reigning 10,000m cross-country world champion can run “under 26 minutes” in 10km on Wednesday. One afternoon in August, Haile Gebrselassie had her eyes glued to Joshua Cheptegei on the television screen. After watching a race for almost 13 minutes, the Ethiopian legend of distance racing he …
Read More »Donald Trump Reprimanded For Removing Mask After Leaving Hospital US News
[ad_1] The coronavirus has made it clear that there are two Americas, the America in which Donald Trump lives and the America in which my father died. Trump was admitted to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center early in his illness. There he had access to an army of specialists, …
Read More »Pakistan Ministry Says No Lobster Found During Survey
[ad_1] ISLAMABAD, Oct.6 (Xinhua) – Pakistan’s Ministry of Research and National Food Security said on Tuesday that no lobster was found during a survey by special teams in affected areas of the country. The National Lobster Control Center (NLCC) surveyed about 129,072 hectares of land in the past 24 hours, …
Read More »The Cygnus space freighter docked at the space station to deliver new space toilets, science experiments and supplies
[ad_1] The Cygnus is shown on the grips of the Canadarm2 robotic arm as the space station orbited over North Africa. Credit: @ Ivan_MKS63 / Twitter Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus space freighter is open to the public just five hours after it was attached to the International Space Station today. The …
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