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Rich Countries Snatching Up Vaccines Before Poorer Countries Have a Chance, Advocates Warn | Post News Group

More than half a billion vaccine doses have been administered worldwide, according to the New York Times, and more than 75% of them have gone to people in the world’s richest countries: countries like the US, Canada, and the UK. According to a blog post in March from the People’s Vaccine

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AMHVoices: ZimFund comes to rescue of Chitown

THE African Development Fund (AfDB), through ZimFund, has allocated US$1,087 million towards strengthening sanitation services in

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

Africa's unsung army of women wage war on Covid-19

As cases of the new coronavirus climb and Kenyans are told to stay home and avoid human contact, 38-year-old Omondi moves house to house through Kawangware's maze of narrow

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Africa: Continent Seeks to Produce 60% of Its Vaccines By 2040

[East African] The African Union (AU) has announced the launch of a partnership to manufacture vaccines at five research centres to be built on the continent in the coming 15 years. The continent seeks to be able to manufacture 60 percent of its vaccines by 2040.

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Africa: Can Vaccines Reach the World's Poorest?

Rome — Thursday's GAVI vaccine summit aims to help people in the developing world get access to any eventual coronavirus

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Haitian appointed first-ever chief medical officer in NYC health department

NEW YORK, United States (CMC) - New York City's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) has appointed Haitian-born Dr Michelle Morse to serve as the agency's first chief medical officer.

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Opinion: The 8 We Lost

We learned more about the suspect in the Georgia shootings than the victims, possibly because the women who died may have been too busy working to leave long histories on social media.

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Zimbabwe

President Mugabe and Tsvangirai agreed to a power-sharing deal in September that called on the leaders to share executive authority. Under the deal, Tsvangirai will serve as prime minister and the opposition will control 16 ministries. The governing party will control 15; Mugabe will continue as

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Epworth residents turn to ‘Pool of Death’ for water

By Everson Mushava HARD-PRESSED Epworth residents, a dormitory town 15km east of Harare, have turned to the heavily contaminated “Pool of Death” for water as they have no other choice after being let down for several years by the local authority. Formed from a disused quarry mine, whose limpid and

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Kenya

The economy did not flourish under Mois rule. In the 1990s, Kenyas infrastructure began disintegrating and official graft was rampant, contributing to the withdrawal of much foreign aid. In early 1995, President Moi moved against the opposition and ordered the arrest of anyone who insulted

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Africa: Climate Change in the Central African Republic - What Threats?

Interview - With many meteorological stations having fallen into disuse or now obsolete, the climate of the Central African Republic is one of the most poorly monitored in the world. Yet this green and fertile country is one of the most vulnerable to climate change - and the combined effects of

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Covid-19 fails to halt conflict in DR Congo

Coronavirus has swiftly gained status as the world's No. 1 threat but in eastern DR Congo, one of Africa's most volatile regions, militia killings and ethnic violence are an older and -- for now -- far greater source of

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Mozambique: Violent Attacks Force Thousands to Flee and Damage Health Center

An armed group attacked the village of Macomia in northern Mozambique in the early morning hours of May 28, setting fire to homes, shops, schools, religious and government buildings, and forcing people to flee into the bush and neighboring villages, said the international medical humanitarian

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Ashes instead of soap: Inside Zimbabwe’s COVID-19 fight – Voice and Viewpoint

COVID-19 has worsened the underlying structural and perennial problem of water shortages in Matabeleland North, South and Bulawayo provinces, said Dumisani Nkomo, chief executive officer for Habakkuk Trust, a nonprofit

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The L.A. Zoo’s Animal Residents Are Actually Thriving - African American News Today - EIN News

… .A. Zoo’s first female African American director, wants to make it … made Verret, the first female African American director of a major American …

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Ramsey Clark et Haïti | Haiti Liberte

L'ancien procureur général des États-Unis, Ramsey Clark, décédé le 9 avril, avait un lien très spécial avec Haïti, qu'il visitait souvent. 'Il semble que, pour le reste de ma vie', a déclaré Ramsey Clark lors des funérailles d'un révolutionnaire étatsunien en 2005, 'je serai toujours présenté comme

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Africa: What Developing Countries Can Teach Us About How to Respond to a Pandemic

Analysis - Nine months into the pandemic, Europe remains one of the regions worst affected by COVID-19. Ten of the 20 countries with the highest death count per million people are European. The other ten are in the Americas. This includes the US, which has the highest number of confirmed cases and

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Source: allAfrica.com

Africa: Remarks by Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield at the Closing Plenary of the InterAction Forum

[State Department] Thank you, Sam, for that kind introduction. It is an honor to take part in the InterAction Forum this year. I know how important these two days are for all of you and the communities you serve.

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Kenya

Kenya lies across the equator in east-central Africa, on the coast of the Indian Ocean. It is twice the size of Nevada. Kenya borders Somalia to the east, Ethiopia to the north, Tanzania to the south, Uganda to the west, and Sudan to the northwest. In the north, the land is arid; the southwest

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Africa's unsung army of women wage war on Covid-19 | News24

Poorly paid or not at all, these unsung armies of mostly female community health workers have for years doled out advice and health services to families living in remote villages and urban slums who lack formal support.

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Charles Mitchell, Slavery, and Washington Territory in 1860

Few people connect Washington Territory with slavery. However one incident in 1860 was a reminder that the peculiar institution reached the pre-Civil War Pacific Northwest. In the account below, historian Lorraine McConaghy describes the saga of Charles Mitchell whose attempted escape from

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Zimbabwe: WFP to Introduce E-Vouchers for 224,000 Urban Dwellers

The United Nations in Zimbabwe (UN in Zimbabwe), through the World Food Programme (WFP), will expand its social assistance fund by introducing an e-voucher scheme pilot in Epworth, Harare, which, if successful, will benefit over 224 000 vulnerable families in urban

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Africa: WHO Calls for Equitable Access to Future COVID-19 Vaccines in Africa

Press Release - The World Health Organization (WHO) in Africa joined immunization experts in urging the international community and countries in Africa to take concrete actions to ensure equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines, as researchers around the world race to find effective protection against

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Madagascar: Extreme Covid-19 Prevention Measures | Africanews

Economic Challenges

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Preventing Tropical Waterborne Diseases | Brothers on Sports

Although the majority of the United States is temperate, several states have a tropical climate and will usually receive a good amount of rain throughout most of the year. Hawaii, Florida, and several islands in the Caribbean are known for being popular tropical getaways. But even though these

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Thirteenth post-cabinet press briefing 4th May, 2021 - NewsDay Zimbabwe

In the area operated by the Bulawayo-Beitbridge Railway (Pvt) Ltd, artisanal miners had dug pits within the three metre radius of the railway line. This has the potential of weakening the railway infrastructure, leading to potential derailment and damage to the track. Cabinet approved the

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Africa: How Google's Project Loon Can Improve Epidemic Preparedness

Guest Column - Twenty kilometers above the ground, giant balloons are hovering in the sky, providing high-speed internet spanning 50,000 square kilometers across central and western Kenya, with spillover to parts of Ethiopia, Rwanda and Uganda.

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Health time bomb ticks in Centenary

BY WINSTONE ANTONIO A HEALTH time bomb is ticking away in Centenary’s Hillside area in Mashonaland Central province, where residents have gone for 10 years without clean, potable water, forcing them to draw water from open wells or queue at the town’s only borehole. They said the only borehole in

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A decade after deadly cholera epidemic, Haiti awaits help

MEILLE, Haiti (AP) - Ten years after a cholera epidemic swept through Haiti and killed nearly 10,000 people, families of victims still struggle financially and await compensation from the United Nations as many continue to drink from and bathe in a river that became ground zero for the waterborne

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Diarrhea outbreak hits Zimbabwe's second city of Bulawayo | Africanews

An outbreak of diarrhea has killed nine people out of more than 1,800 cases in the past month in Zimbabwe’s second city, highlighting the problems for a weak public health system already struggling with rising cases of

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