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"...... We provide collection and sorting of garbage cans, we manufacture them in order to equip the population with tools allowing them to sort their waste. We collect the sorted waste and recycle it through partnerships." Abdoul Bakhy Mbacke, founder of the recycling company Ciprovis
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
The cans have a label that peels back to reveal a chronology of those long weeks with haunting black-and-white photographs.
Ethiopian Families Together Again
Around 300 Ethiopian immigrants landed on Thursday at Israel's international airport by way of Ethiopian Airlines. Many of them were dressed in traditional Ethiopian robes and some women were holding infants as some waved flags or stopped to kiss the ground upon arrival as they debarked from the aircraft onto a red carpet.
Festive Hebrew songs blasting over loudspeakers in the background complemented the ambience.
Israel’s first Ethiopian-born Cabinet Minister, Pnina Tamano-Shata, travelled to Ethiopia to join them on the flight and a large delegation of Israeli officials welcomed the group upon their arrival.
Questionable Politics?
This was a move by the Israeli government to honour its pledge in 2015 to reunite hundreds of Ethiopian families of Jewish lineage split between the two countries. Community activists have since accused the government of dragging its feet in the implementation of this initiative a nd Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party interestingly repeated the pledge before national elections earlier this year.
The Prime Minister himself had some words on the event, \"My wife Sara and myself were standing there with tears in our eyes. When you see the olim (immigrants to Israel), our brothers Ethiopian Jews, disembark from the plane with baskets, like we remember, as I remember in my childhood, (they) disembark and touch the ground of Eretz Israel and the mother bows down and kisses the ground, carrying a baby girl named Yerushalayim, and another baby girl named Esther. Esther and Yerushalayim come to Jerusalem. This is the essence of the Jewish story, the essence of the Zionist story.\"
Not Jewish Enough
The Ethiopian families — although practising Jews, Israel does not recognise them as Jewish under religious law. As such, they were permitted to enter the country under a family-unification program that requires special government approval.
The Struggle for Ethiopian Aliyah, an activist group that seeks to promote family unification, estimates some 7,000 Ethiopian Jews still remain in Ethiopia — many of whom have been waiting for years to be reunited with their families.
We must change our behaviour now to prevent a resurgence of the virus and manage outbreaks wherever they occur, President Cyril Ramaphosa said in his address on Thursday night.
We're less than a month from the New Year, and if your resolution is to get in shape, Nike has you covered. Since quarantine began, everyone has either packed on the pounds or figuring out ways to sweat them out thanks to the popularization of CLMBR, Peloton, and of course, HIIT. HIIT, or high-intensity interval […]
By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — After four years of President Donald Trump serving as his own chief spokesperson and frequently peddling false information and conspiracy theories in the process, successor Joe Biden is pledging to return to a more traditional approach to communicating with Americans. Much of that work will fall to Jen Psaki, Biden's pick for White House press secretary. She's a veteran communications staffer who has worked on many top Democratic campaigns and held leading roles under President Barack Obama, including deputy press secretary and White House communications director, as well as spokesperson for the […]
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Hundreds of medics protest in Tunisia on Friday following the death of a young doctor in a hospital elevator in the Jendouba region of the country’s northwest.
Badreddedine Aloui, 26, plunged to his death on Thursday down an elevator shaft after the lift doors opened but with no elevator in place, witnesses said.
\"He was only 26 years old, he had his whole future ahead of him. Today, he and his family have been deprived of a bright future, why? Because we live in a system that doesn't try to improve, that does not try to make things work, to not have too many problems, and in the end we don't fix, we don't repair. In the end the accident happens, and there are deaths\", said Dr. Zakaria Bouguerra.
The elevator, in a hospital in the marginalized Jendouba region, had allegedly remained in service despite a long-reported fault.
Hundreds of medics including doctors, health workers and medical students gathered in front of the health ministry in the capital Tunis, demanding the health minister and other officials be sacked.
The hospital has been visited by two government ministers over the past months, including Health Minister Faouzi Mehdi in October.
A similar protest was also held in the eastern port city of Sfax.
Local media reported that Tunisian Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi has ordered a state funeral for the late surgeon to be buried in his native Kasserine, in western Tunisia on Friday.
Tunisians have also taken to social media to denounce what they say are dysfunctional public services, particularly in the health sector, in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.
By Associated Press Undefined LONDON (AP) — A local British emergency services department says there have been 'multiple casualties' following a large explosion Thursday at a wastewater treatment facility near the southwest England city of Bristol. The Avon Fire and Rescue Service said it was alerted at 11:22 a.m. to a large explosion in the industrial area of Avonmouth located near Bristol, which is about 120 miles (195 kilometers) west of London. 'We can confirm there are multiple casualties on site,' a fire service spokesman said. 'The incident is ongoing.' The fire service said its personnel were joined at the […]
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Ramaphosa has been praised for avoiding a large-scale lockdown and has also been backed by Steenhuisen in the call for behavioural change.
Living life as close to normal as possible is important to many, especially when it comes to youth sports, programs, and activities that have been impacted by COVID-19 cases. With school districts having to re-close their doors to minimize the impact of the coronavirus, the Boys & Girls Clubs of Southeastern Michigan (BGCSM) and Xenith … Continued
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… ranking Black lawmaker, want more African-Americans named to senior positions.
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Rescue efforts continue after the collapse of a dilapidated building in Central Alexandria, Egypt, killing 3 people on Wednesday.
Civil defense agents are hoping to rescue survivors in the rubble of the residential building in the Moharram Bek neighborhood.
Alexandria Governor said the building was earmarked for demolition.
\"In Fardous street in the district of Moharram Bek, on this building there were three floors. The building had be subject to demolition orders on separate occasions. There were two families and there are approximately nine people trapped in the rubble. We rescued a child and are waiting for the rest. Civil protection workers are here and we have the necessary equipment prepared. God help their families, we will be here with them until the rest are rescued\", Mohamed El-Sherif said.
Central Alexandria and Cairo, is home to most of these dilapidated buildings, which dates back to the 19th and early 20th centuries. Several buildings have collapsed in recent years in Egypt, claiming many victims, due to the dilapidation of buildings and non-compliance with legislation in terms of urban planning.
