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The Election is Over But the Pandemic is Not About 53,000 people were hospitalized for coronavirus on Thursday in the United States and deaths were over 1,000 for the fourth day in a row as the country broke its record for the highest number of Covid-19 cases in a single day on Friday, with 128,000 additional new infections, according to… Read More

A New Hospital in the Capital City Nairobi, Kenya has a new hospital equipped with 100 hospital beds and COVID-19 treating facilities to cater to those with the means to afford its health services – including diplomats and United Nations staff as it was built in collaboration with the international organisation at a cost of 8 million US dollars. However,… Read More

More Mummies Discovered Around a hundred ancient coffins – Colorful, sealed sarcophagi and statues, were discovered in Egypt as announced on Saturday. They are believed to have been buried over 2,500 years ago and some of them even hold mummies inside. The Tourism and Antiquities Minister Khaled el-Anany informed the public by way of a news conference that the artefacts… Read More

The Conflict Gets Worse The Tigrayan regional government has fired rockets at two airports in the neighbouring Amhara region in Ethiopia with spokesman Reda asserting that further retaliation could continue and even Asmara in Eritrea could be targeted. The Ethiopian federal government confirmed that Gondar and Bahir Dar airports were damaged in the strikes late Friday — as the deadly… Read More

A Budding Young Talent Teenage actor and hip hop recording artist, Miles Brown, is delivering profound and uplifting lyrical content to his peers by way of his new rap album titled, ‘We The Future.’ “It’s kind of me reaching out to kids and the youth if you look at the cover. And I’m expressing how we’re going to be the… Read More

Peace in Libya? Weeks of talks have finally seen the United Nations-chosen 75 delegates attending the Libyan Dialogue Forum in Tunis reach an agreement. As on Friday evening, the UN announced that “national elections” would be held before December 24 2021. Ghassan Salame, a Lebanese academic who served as the former UN envoy and resigned last March for health reasons… Read More

Civilians Hit by Political Feud As of Friday evening, at least 21,000 Ethiopians had crossed into eastern Sudan, according to the regional head of Sudan’s refugee agency, Alsir Khaled. Many are in fear of having lost their homes and livelihoods and some are even separated from their families as they fled the intense and traumatising fighting between the Ethiopian army… Read More

Not Approved The main opposition candidate of Niger Republic, Hama Amadou, will not be in the upcoming December presidential race as his candidacy bid was rejected on Friday by the Constitutional Court. Falling one place short of the presidency in the 2016 election to current President Mahamadou Issoufou, the 70-year-old Amadou, twice prime minister, was sentenced in 2017 to one… Read More

Avid Support Outside Court Hundreds of supporters of Ace Magashule, the Secretary-General of South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) party, staged protests on Friday as some even tried to force way into the magistrate’s court in Bloemfontein, the capital of the Free State, where Magashule appeared for his hearing over alleged graft revolving around the equivalent of 13.9 million… Read More

The global pandemic has triggered a boom in reading, according to the president of the International Publishers Association. Online sales of educational, fictional & children’s books have done particularly well in the past six months. A sign of the times, many scheduled book events around the world have turned over a new leaf due to the global pandemic. As in… Read More