Sat 24 February 2024: Worldwide in 2020 a baby died every 40 seconds because of complications of prematurity. Preterm birth is the leading cause of death among children under 5 years old. The burden of preterm birth is heavier in in low- and middle-income countries, where around 80% occur. The countries with the highest recorded preterm rates in Africa are […]
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Sat 24 February 2024: Kenya and Namibia have been added to the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) “grey list” of nations that require more monitoring, because of insufficient measures to prevent money laundering and financing of terrorism. “At this Plenary, the FATF added Kenya and Namibia to the list of jurisdictions subject to increased monitoring,” […]
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Fri 23 February 2024: Israel’s PM Benjamin Netanyahu has presented the security cabinet with a document regarding the “management” of Gaza after the war, the Times of Israel has reported. Here are its main points: The Israeli army will continue the war in Gaza until it achieves its goals: the dismantlement of military capabilities and […]
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Fri 23 February 2024: Shamima Begum, the British national who travelled to Syria as a schoolgirl to join ISIL (ISIS), has lost her latest appeal attempt to regain citizenship stripped by the United Kingdom. The Court of Appeal ruled on Friday that Shamima Begum was lawfully deprived of her British citizenship. The court said it could be […]
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Fri 23 February 2024: Alexey Navalny’s mother has said, she is under pressure from Russian authorities to bury the opposition leader’s body in “secret”. Lyudmila Navalnaya said that she was given permission to see her son’s body in the morgue by Russian officials in a video message that was uploaded on YouTube on Thursday. She […]
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A cross spray-painted on his shirt, Nathaniel Veltman in custody at London police headquarters. Fri 23 February 2024: A Canadian white supremacist who killed four members of a Muslim family by running them over on purpose has been given a life term in jail. In November, Nathaniel Veltman, 23, was found guilty on four counts […]
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Fri 23 February 2024: Experts have urged African nations to adopt digital identity (ID) systems in order to access economic potential worth between 3 and 7 percent of their GDP, Xinhua reported. The call was made by statistics and data experts attending the 12th StatsTalk-Africa Webinar organized Tuesday by the African Center for Statistics at […]
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Fri 23 February 2024: U.S. company Intuitive Machines’ first lunar lander touched down on the moon Thursday, marking the first American spacecraft to land on the lunar surface in more than 50 years. The uncrewed lander, named Odysseus, landed at the lunar South Pole at 6:23 p.m. Eastern Time, according to NASA. Intuitive Machines also […]
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Satellite images show hundreds of trucks waiting at Rafah border crossing. Maxar Technologies/AFP Photo] Fri 23 February 2024: Over the past days, the Sinai Foundation for Human Rights has published three reports accompanied by videos and photos from the buffer zone in North Sinai, a few kilometres from the Egyptian border with the Gaza […]
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Thu 22 February 2024: The amount of global debt climbed to a record high of $313 trillion last year, according to a report by the Institute of International Finance (IIF) on Wednesday. “Over $15 trillion was added to the global debt mountain last year, bringing the total to a new record high of $313 trillion,” […]
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