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Ready to go: Wuhan No. 1 Hospital in Wuhan, central China’s Hubei Province, February 22, 2020. /Xinhua Photo African countries are increasing their efforts toward being adequately prepared to tackle the COVID-19. This comes as the World Health Organization (WHO) expressed concerns about new cases outside China. The pneumonia …
File photo: Residents fight locusts in Kenya recently. The locust invasion in East Africa is the biggest in Kenya in 70 years, according to the FAO. COURTESY PHOTO/Daily monitor. The U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization says a small group of desert locusts has entered Congo, marking the first time the voracious insects have been seen …
FILE PHOTO: Malasi’s President Peter Mutharika speaks during a past United Nations General Assembly in New York. A court overturned the result of last year’s vote, citing widespread irregularities. /Reuters Photo Malawi is expected to hold a repeat presidential election on May 19 after a court overturned the result of last year’s vote, …
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday appeared open to reinstating $4.3 billion in punitive damages against Sudan in lawsuits accusing it of complicity in the 1998 al Qaeda bombings of two U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed 224 people. Doreen Oport, who was injured in the attack …
As governments around the world remain alert in efforts to stop the spread of COVID-19, economists say the impact of the epidemic on China’s economy is limited. They argue that the world’s second biggest economy will be back on track as early as the second quarter of this year. A Tanzanian economist, Prof. Humphrey Moshi is confident the current shortages faced around the world caused by a temporary halt in production by some Chinese companies will end …
