Business

IGAD launches Hazards Watch for East Africa

The system was developed by a team of Programmers, Climate Scientists, Earth Observation and Systems specialists, as well as Marketing, Design Thinking and sectoral experts to meet the growing need of Risk Information due to increasing climate extremes. The East Africa Hazards Watch supports tracking extreme events such as drought, cyclones, pests (desert locust), heavy […]

General

Desert Locust Bulletin 513 (July 5, 2021)

WESTERN REGION: CALM SITUATION. Breeding localized in central Algeria (351 ha treated) and isolated adults in northeast Morocco. FORECASTS. Small-scale breeding in the Sahel of Mauritania, Mali, Niger and Chad with increasing summer rains to the North. CENTRAL REGION: THREAT SITUATION. New hopper bands form and moult, giving rise to an increasing number of immature swarms, mainly in […]

Medicine

Displaced nurses provide vital health care to others displaced in Ethiopia’s Tigray

As UNHCR and other aid agencies scale up the humanitarian response in conflict-torn Tigray, local communities and the displaced are pulling together to support one another. In a small, one-room stone cottage in Mekelle, the regional capital of Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region, Brukti* is measuring a young girl’s upper arm to screen her for malnutrition. […]

MENA Press Releases

Huya-owned Nimo TV Wins Arbitration Award against Moroccan Livestreamer’s Contractual Breach

GUANGZHOU, China, July 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Nimo TV, HUYA Inc.’s (“Huya”, NYSE: HUYA) international live streaming platform, recently initiated an emergency arbitrator (EA) procedure at the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) against a Moroccan streamer for breaching an Exclusive Cooperation Agreement with Nimo TV. As a result, an interim injunction has been issued to the […]