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Zimbabwe Central Bank Hikes Interest Rate To 200%, Highest In The world

adminJune 27, 2022

by adminJune 27, 20220252

A man shows a wad of the new Zimbabwe two-dollar notes he received from a bank in Harare on November 12, 2019. Jekesai NJIKIZANA / AFP Zimbabwe’s central bank on Monday more than doubled its key interest rate to a whopping 200 percent, the highest in the world as the......

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Measles Cases Soar 400 Percent In Africa This Year

adminApril 28, 2022

by adminApril 28, 20220320

More than 6,000 people have died in DR Congo’s latest measles outbreak.File photo: AFP Africa is facing an explosion of preventable diseases due to delays in vaccinating children, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Thursday, with measles cases jumping 400 percent. Twenty African countries reported measles outbreaks in the first......

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Central African Republic Adopts Bitcoin As Legal Currency

adminApril 27, 2022

by adminApril 27, 20220217

In this file photo taken on February 06, 2018 A picture taken on February 6, 2018 shows a visual representation of the digital crypto-currency Bitcoin, at the “Bitcoin Change” shop in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv. (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP) The Central African Republic has adopted bitcoin......

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DR Congo Confirms New Ebola Case

adminApril 23, 2022

by adminApril 23, 20220234

This file photo taken on August 15, 2014 shows an MSF medical workers checking their protective clothing in a mirror at an MSF facility in Kailahun, epicentre of the world’s worst Ebola outbreak.CARL DE SOUZA / AFP A new case of the Ebola virus has been confirmed in the Democratic......

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HRW Asks Cameroon To Protect Prisoners From Cholera

adminApril 9, 2022

by adminApril 9, 20220220

Human Rights Watch on Saturday asked Cameroon to protect prisoners from a cholera outbreak, saying at least six inmates had died in the country’s second-largest jail since March. According to Cameroon’s health minister, 105 people have died in the outbreak since October. The disease has been identified in six of the country’s 10......

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Two-Thirds Of Africans May Have Had COVID-19 – WHO Study

adminApril 8, 2022

by adminApril 8, 20220231

In this file photo, a healthcare worker administers a SINOVAC Covid-19 vaccine on a minor during the Numolux/SINOVAC Paediatric Covid-19 Vaccine Clinical Trial at the Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University in Pretoria, on September 10, 2021. (Photo by Phill Magakoe / AFP) More than two-thirds of Africans may have contracted......

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Zimbabwe Hikes Interest Rates To 80 Percent

adminApril 4, 2022

by adminApril 4, 20220244

A man shows a wad of the new Zimbabwe two-dollar notes he received from a bank in Harare on November 12, 2019. Jekesai NJIKIZANA / AFP Zimbabwe’s central bank has raised its benchmark interest rate to 80 percent in a bid to rein in inflation worsened by the war in......

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Ghana Ends Mandatory Face Mask-Wearing, Reopens Borders After Two Years

adminMarch 28, 2022

by adminMarch 28, 20220247

In this file photo, homemade protective face masks are prepared by Sarah, a 45-year-old volunteer, who sews face masks to be distributed to people in need, at her home in Vincennes, eastern suburbs of Paris, on May 7, 2020, on the 52nd day of a strict lockdown in France to......

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Teenager Jailed For Online Shaming That Led To Girl’s Suicide

adminMarch 25, 2022

by adminMarch 25, 20220265

A court gavel An Egyptian court has sentenced a teenager to five years in prison over the suicide of a schoolgirl after images of her were shared online, judicial sources said on Friday. Basant Khaled, 17, who lived with her family in a village of northern Egypt, died after swallowing......

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U.S. Govt’s Initiative For Global Vaccine Access To Boost COVID-19 Vaccination In Nigeria

adminFebruary 23, 2022

by adminFebruary 23, 20220227

In this photo taken on August 16, 2021, a health official holds a vaccine tube and a syringe as Nigeria commences the second phase of COVID-19 vaccination. Channels TV/ Sodiq Adelakun. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Assistant Administrator for Global Health Dr. Atul Gawande, on Wednesday announced......