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Veteran journalist Mohamed Adow has quit media to join the murky world of politics to contest Wajir South parliamentary seat.
The president also stressed the importance of keeping the economy open after months of stifling movement restrictions.
He urged citizens not to drop their guard and continue adhering to the health rules, such as wearing face masks and respecting curfew times.
South Africa has recorded just over 800,000 coronavirus infections - more than a third of the cases reported across the African continent - and over 20,000 deaths.
AFP
[spotlight] Children shoulder approximately 12% of the global TB burden, and this proportion is likely higher in high TB burden countries. In South Africa, up to 30 000 children develop TB each year, but, says Dr Megan Palmer, medical director at Brooklyn Chest Hospital, \"children have traditionally been neglected in TB research because of the perception that they are not drivers of the TB epidemic\".
… his scenes of almost-everyday African-American life. The display came to … , 3,000-quilt cache of African-American quilts that if handled properly …
A curfew has once again been extended - this time in Nelson Mandela Bay in the Eastern Cape after it was declared a hotspot.
Back from the Ground
Ready for takeoff and safe landing? Questions that many are asking as the supposedly-revamped American Airlines Boeing 737 MAX's took its first public flight Wednesday following a 20-month grounding - the longest in the history of civil aviation, after two fatal crashes that saw 346 people lose their lives. In November, the US and Brazilian authorities gave the green light for the controversial aircraft to return to service, after several modifications and the introduction of specific training for the pilots. As before flying the MAX, a two-hour course on a computer tablet, an hour of flight simulation, followed by two-hour flying scenario reaction training by paired colleagues is required to be undertaken by each US pilot.
The American Airlines promotional trip on Wednesday between Dallas, Texas and Tulsa, Oklahoma was an active communication strategy to attract and reassure the public before resuming commercial service on December 29 - with the MAX’s first scheduled flight for Miami and New York.
Face mask-clad passengers were seated according to social distancing guidelines in light of the Covid-19 pandemic and the 50-minute flight to Tulsa on Wednesday proceeded uneventfully with only a little turbulence along the way.
Doubts and Speculations
Although the Boeing 737 MAX has already gone through several thousand hours of test flights in the hands of specialists in the aviation sector, the families of the victims of the tragedies of Lion Air on October 29, 2018, and Ethiopian Airlines on March 10, 2019, are not convinced.
They condemn the perceived-marketing ploy by American Airlines' and dismiss the efforts as a way to salvage a bad investment on the part of the company - which had 24 units in its service i.e. the second-largest customer out of all other airlines, since before the two calamities.
The traumatised family members believe that there are still technical problems to be corrected and heed caution.
The main change requested by the regulators concerns the MCAS flight control software, which the pilots of the aforementioned tragedies were unable to master.
Boeing plans to set up an operations centre that will monitor all flights in real-time.
American Airlines has stated that all customers who buy tickets will be notified of flights employing the MAX aircraft and the carrier will provide alternative trips to passengers who prefer not to board this specific plane.
Ramaphosa was adamant that public behaviour needs to change immediately to prevent the spread of the virus, and blasted defiance of the laws.
Despite having indicated its intention to join global health initiative Covax, SA has yet to outline how the vaccine will be distributed.
By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press MOSUL, Iraq (AP) — In a quest to root out Islamic State group hideouts over the summer, Iraqi forces on the ground cleared nearly 90 villages across a notoriously unruly northern province. But the much-touted operation still relied heavily on U.S. intelligence, coalition flights and planning assistance. While the planned U.S. troop drawdown in Iraq from 3,000 to 2,500 by mid-January is unlikely to have an immediate impact on the campaign against IS remnants, there are concerns that further withdrawals could set the stage for another resurgence of the extremist group. Although Iraqi forces have […]
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President Cyril Ramaphosa has imposed a series of restrictions in Nelson Mandela Bay in the Eastern Cape, as the municipality has seen a spike in COVID-19 infections
Barack Obama endured one of the most difficult days of his post-presidency on Wednesday, and while the blows were severe, the call outs were legitimate.
The emergence of new outbreaks in several parts of South Africa has raised fears of a resurgence of the coronavirus, which could be encouraged by the expected gatherings during the festive season.
Authorities in the African country officially most affected by Covid-19 have been struggling to control the number of outbreaks since an increase was reported in November in the neighboring Eastern and Western (Southern) Cape provinces.
Nationally, the daily number of new cases has surpassed 3,000, a 50% jump from an average of 2,000 earlier in November.
More than half of this increase came from infections in the Eastern Cape and about 25% from the Western Cape Province.
\"The small outbreaks we are seeing right now (...) are temporary. Something must be done,\" Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said last week.
The rate of coronavirus transmission in South Africa had dropped sharply after peaking in July, with fewer than three cases detected daily per 100,000 people between late August and early November.
But the lull was short-lived, and authorities are now trying to combat a possible resurgence of the epidemic.
\"We are not in the second wave but in these two provinces (...) we are in full resurgence,\" commented the government adviser in charge of the fight against the coronavirus, Salim Abdool Karim.
If these new epidemic outbreaks are not contained, it is \"only a matter of time\" for the whole country to be affected, he warned.
In the Eastern Cape's largest city, Port Elizabeth, hospitals are already struggling with the rebound of the epidemic, although local authorities say the situation is under control.
'Chronic shortages'
Still reeling from the shock of the first wave, the health services requested assistance from the NGO Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in three public facilities.
\"The hospitals are really overwhelmed with a large number of patients, some even say more than in July,\" said an MSF official for the province, Dr. Colin Pfaff.
\"The facilities are understaffed,\" he added, criticizing \"chronic shortages\" and citing contamination among medical staff.
Private facilities are also affected.
\"Our hospitals in the Eastern Cape are incredibly full at the moment,\" Richard Friedland, head of South Africa's largest private medical network, Netcare, told AFP last week.
\"We still have the capacity to treat new cases\" with the installation of additional beds, he assured nevertheless.
While the provincial government assures that hospitals are neither \"full\" nor \"overwhelmed\", the South African Physicians Association accused the Department of Health this week of not providing adequate support to \"overwhelmed\" staff.
South Africa has recorded 792,000 cases, including more than 21,600 deaths, for a population of nearly 58 million people.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has ruled out a new lockdown at this stage.
The stringent infections which came into effect at the end of March have seriously affected the economy of the most industrialized country on the continent, causing 2.2 million people to lo
[The Conversation Africa] The African penguin (Spheniscus demersus) population has declined by over 95% since the 1900s and by nearly 65% over the past 30 years.
[East African] Patrick Youssef, the International Committee of the Red Cross Director of Operations for Africa, spoke to Fred Oluoch about the challenges on the continent
LONDON (AP) — U.K. regulators went on the offensive Friday to beat back criticism that they rushed their authorisation of a COVID-19 vaccine, saying they rigorously analysed data on safety and effectiveness in the shortest time possible...
On Monday, the Supreme Court heard a case on the Trump administration's effort to exclude undocumented immigrants from the decennial census count used to apportion congressional seats. Federal law requires the president to deliver to Congress \"a statement showing the whole number of persons in each State\" based on the once-a-decade census. However, President Donald Trump is pushing for an unprecedented new approach to census tabulation. \"For the purpose of the reapportionment of representatives following the 2020 census ... the United States [should] exclude from the apportionment base aliens who are not in a lawful immigration status\" even if they usually reside within the borders of the United States and had already been counted.
Democratic incumbent Chief Justice Cheri Beasley requested the recount after fewer than 500 votes separated her and Republican Paul Newby in the North Carolina state Supreme Court chief justice election.
The Oakland Unified School District recently grabbed headlines when progressives won three out of four open seats on the school board, for the first time in years giving a major voice on the board to public school advocates who say teachers and families deserve to have a say whether their schools are allowed to stay […]
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A Prince George's County work group assembled to address police reform approved a final report Wednesday with 50 recommendations such as reallocating money toward mental health and behavioral services for students to County Council approving a use-of-force statute.
To some, they're a flying nuisance but pigeons are a big business in Senegal.
From his roof in a suburb of the capital Dakar, shopkeeper and pigeon racer Moustapha Gueye releases dozens of birds from the loft, who quickly fly out of sight.
\"Here it's a factory, I'm creating athletes,\" he says.
He takes care of his winged friends every morning by training them and developing crossbreeds suitable for flying in hot weather.
\"It is a sport created by Europeans, it was imported here. We discovered pigeon racing through the internet. But before we use to be pigeon breeders only,\" Gueye says.
Though more popular across the continent, it is a growing sport in the West African country.
Today, there are some 350 pigeon racing enthusiasts in Senegal, who spend a lot of money. A pigeon can cost over 800 US dollars in the country.
\"Currently I'm doing business with pigeons. I've earned several million CFA francs selling pigeons, I even bought a car through those pigeons,\" he says.
\"But the most important thing for me is the passion.
\"It's exciting to have pigeons, when you start participating in races, releasing a pigeon 400 km from its loft and it comes back, that's something you can't explain, it's great!\"
Taking flight
Pigeon racing has clearly taken flight in Senegal and continues to spread its wings.
Senegalese pigeon-racing enthusiasts are keen to turn others on to the sport, and some hope to ultimately turn professional.
But breeder and pigeon racer Oumar Johnson says some people take their dedication too far.
\"When you're too busy with pigeons, things risk going badly,\" he says, adding that the pigeon-fanciers' federation is considering less time-consuming races for youngsters.
Young people are nonetheless the future of the sport, Johnson says, adding that their devotion will make Senegal \"one of the greatest pigeon-racing nations\" one day.
\"In Europe, you have to motivate young people to get involved,\" he says.
\"Here, young people are rushing into it.\"
Rafer Johnson, American athlete and actor who won a gold medal in the decathlon at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome, died Wednesday aged 86. The Olympic legend died at his home in the Sherman Oaks section of Los Angeles, according to his family. The cause of death is not known. What is however clear...
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