Published by AFP Oslo (AFP) – Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed will collect his Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo on Tuesday, but as ethnic violence rises at home he has kept festivities and meetings with the media to a minimum.Hailed as a modern, reformist leader, Abiy’s decision to skip all events with the press has […]
Day: November 23, 2021
Virus claims record dead but Trump sees light at end of tunnel
Published by AFP Washington (AFP) – The coronavirus pandemic notched up another round of record death tolls in the United States and Europe, dousing the optimism of US President Donald Trump who insisted there was light at the end of the tunnel.The virus has now killed more than 87,000 people and infected over 1.5 million, […]
As COVID starts to surge, Ethiopia battles complacency
Published by AFP Addis Ababa (AFP) – The car paused at a traffic light, its rooftop megaphone pumping out a message that the city government of Addis Ababa has been hammering for months.”Yes, we can and you can!” the recording began.It then ticked off basic coronavirus prevention, such as hand-washing, physical distancing and avoiding the […]
How climate change could expose new epidemics
Published by AFP Paris (AFP) – Long-dormant viruses brought back to life; the resurgence of deadly and disfiguring smallpox; a dengue or zika “season” in Europe.These could be disaster movie storylines, but they are also serious and increasingly plausible scenarios of epidemics unleashed by global warming, scientists say.The COVID-19 pandemic that has swept the globe […]
NAFDAC Approves AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccine
Published by TDPel Media INTRODUCTIONThe use of AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccine, a recombinant ChAdOx1 adenoviral vector encoding the structural surface glycoprotein (Spike protein) antigen of the SARS-CoV-2 was given an approval for Emergency Use Listing by WHO on Monday, February 15, 2021. WHO’s Emergency Use Listing (EUL) assesses the quality, safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines […]
Angelina Jolie reveals challenge of having children ‘of different backgrounds’
Published by BANG Showbiz English Angelina Jolie has struggled to get accurate medical advice for her children because they are “of different backgrounds”. The 46-year-old actress – who has Maddox, 19, Pax, 17, Zahara, 16, Shiloh, 15, and 12-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne with her ex-husband Brad Pitt – admits that having children of different […]