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A nursing home worker and a medic are seen at the Life Care Center of Kirkland in Washington in this March 7, 202 file picture. — Courtesy photo

March 27, 2020

US overtakes China with most coronavirus cases

WASHINGTON — The United States now has more coronavirus cases than any other country in the world, overtaking.According to the latest figures collated by Johns Hopkins University and released on Thursday, the US has more than 85,500 positive tests, overtaking China (81,782 cases) and Italy (80,589). However, Italy tops the list with 8,215 coronavirus-related deaths. China has reported 3,291 fatalities and US deaths have neared 1,300.As US took the grim title ...

People pass a banner reading ‘STOP EBOLA’ forming part of Sierra Leone's Ebola free campaign in the city of Freetown, Sierra Leone, in this file photo.

March 24, 2020

How corona-free Sierra Leone has learned from Ebola menace

By Muhammed NafieDUBAI -- Sierra Leone is one of those few countries where no coronavirus cases have been confirmed as of March 23.As a country which had borne the brunt of the 2014-16 Ebola outbreak with 14,124 infections and 3,956 confirmed deaths, Sierra Leone has taken no chances since the new coronavirus pandemic started spreading through Western Africa.Before the coronavirus outbreak, Sierra Leone was one of the two countries in ...

Ethiopia's probe of last year's Ethiopian Airlines crash found that Boeing did not provide sufficient pilot training for the 737 MAX and that crucial flight software was flawed, according to an interim report published Monday.

March 9, 2020

Boeing pilot training on 737 MAX 'inadequate': Ethiopia crash report

ADDIS ABABA — Ethiopia's probe of last year's Ethiopian Airlines crash found that Boeing did not provide sufficient pilot training for the 737 MAX and that crucial flight software was flawed, according to an interim report published Monday.The crash of the Nairobi-bound Boeing 737 MAX six minutes after takeoff on March 10, 2019, killed all 157 people on board, triggering the global grounding of the MAX and the worst crisis ...

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March 7, 2020

Two leading figures from Guinea protest movement arrested

CONAKRY —Guinean security forces have arrested two prominent figures from the months-long protest movement against President Alpha Conde's plans to seek a third term, their entourage said.Ibrahima Diallo and Sekou Koundouno had given a press conference earlier on Friday to condemn the arbitrary arrest of other activists, said Abdoulaye Oumou Sow, a spokesperson for the National Front for the Defense of the Constitution (FNDC).Masked men belonging to the BRI security ...

South Africa's Health Minister Zweli Mkhize is seen in this file photo announcing the first coronavirus case in the country. — AFP

March 7, 2020

South Africa reports second coronavirus case

JOHANNESBURG — South Africa on Saturday confirmed a second case the novel coronavirus, a 39-year-old woman who had traveled to Italy as part of a group with the first confirmed case.The South African authorities said the woman, originally from the inland province of Gauteng, had come into direct contact with the first case from Kwa Zulu-Natal when they traveled back in a group of 10 from Italy on March 1.On ...

Police and firefighters gather at the scene of an explosion near the US embassy in the Tunisian capital Tunis on Friday. A blast that rocked Tunis today was an attack that targeted the US embassy and caused injuries among policemen, police said. — AFP

March 6, 2020

Suicide attackers hit outside US embassy in Tunis

TUNIS — Suicide attackers struck outside the US embassy in the Tunisian capital on Friday, killing a police officer, wounding five other people and shaking a city repeatedly hit by violence.The latest attack comes despite a state of emergency imposed in the North African nation in 2015 following a string of bloody assaults claimed by the Daesh (so-called IS) group.An explosion rocked the Berges du Lac district where the highly ...

As the world grapples with the spread of novel coronavirus, in remote western DR Congo, officials are fighting a deadly outbreak of measles.

March 6, 2020

Away from coronavirus, DR Congo battles deadly measles outbreak

SEKE_BANZA, DR Congo — As the world grapples with the spread of novel coronavirus, in remote western DR Congo, officials are fighting a deadly outbreak of measles.More than 6,000 people have died from measles in the Democratic Republic of Congo in a year, the world's worst outbreak and triple the toll of the country's Ebola epidemic. It is also nearly double the 3,404 people who have died from the coronavirus ...

Heavily armed militants are seen in this June 2016 file photo. — AFP

March 4, 2020

14 killed in militant attack on Nigeria military base

KANO, Nigeria — Militant killed 14 security personnel and civilians in an attack on a military base in northeast Nigeria's Borno state on Wednesday, security sources said.Suspected Boko Haram fighters in trucks fitted with machine guns launched a dawn raid on the army base in the town of Damboa, sparking intense fighting.Sources said six soldiers, four police officers and two members of a government-backed militia were killed along with two ...

The scales were seized in raids in 2017 and 2018, following which some 20 people were arrested. — AFP

March 3, 2020

I. Coast burns 3 tons of pangolin scales

ABIDJAN — Ivory Coast officials on Tuesday burned three tons of scales of the pangolin, the most trafficked mammal on Earth.The scales were seized in raids in 2017 and 2018, following which some 20 people were arrested.Beijing announced a total ban on the sale and consumption of the pangolin after the novel coronavirus outbreak.The scaly mammal — listed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (ICUN) as threatened with ...

UN's envoy to Libya, Ghassan Salame, announced his resignation on Monday citing health reasons, nearly three years after taking up the post. – AFP

March 2, 2020

UN Libya envoy Salame steps down

TRIPOLI — The UN's envoy to war-plagued Libya, Ghassan Salame, announced his resignation on Monday citing health reasons, nearly three years after taking up the post."I tried to unite Libyans and restrain foreign interference... but for health reasons I can no longer continue with this level of stress and therefore I have asked the (UN) secretary-general to relieve me of my duties," Salame tweeted.He added that he wished Libyans "peace ...

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