This storm is awesome. The massive Sahara dust cloud that caused air quality problems in the Caribbean hit the United States for the first time on Thursday, according to reports. The dense columns of dust, which are large enough to be captured by satellite imagery, hit the Mississippi Gulf coast …
Read More »Tanzanian miner sells rare gemstones for $ 3.4 million
Saniniu Laizer has the two tanzanite gems that he mined and sold for $ 3.4 million. Filbert Rweyemamu / AFP via Getty Images Tanzanian miner Saniniu Laizer has become an overnight millionaire by selling two Tanzanian gemstones, the largest ever found in the country, for 7.7 billion Tanzanian shillings ($ …
Read More »Viruses don’t take breaks. The world can learn from how the DRC is overcoming Ebola | Global development
TThe Ebola outbreak in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has ended. Thursday was 42 days since the last person with Ebola was discharged, double the maximum time it takes for symptoms to appear. Almost two years of hard work and community leadership in the DRC have paid …
Read More »With the disappearance of the coronavirus in the United Kingdom, the Oxford vaccine trial expands in South Africa and Brazil.
Soweto, South Africa – Prince William of Great Britain went to Oxford University on Wednesday to meet with patients participating in a human trial of coronavirus vaccine. But with cases of COVID-19 plummeting in England, the researchers fear the 10,000-person trial may not yield conclusive enough results to show that …
Read More »Large-scale coronavirus vaccine trial begins in South Africa
A large-scale test of the coronavirus vaccine began in South Africa on Wednesday, making it the first African nation included in the study. The University of Oxford in Great Britain is conducting vaccine trials in South Africa, Great Britain and Brazil. The university, the Oxford Jenner Institute and the University …
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