Tue 30 January 2024: Battling a deadly cholera outbreak, Zimbabwe on Monday launched the oral cholera vaccination (OCV) campaign targeting 2.3 million citizens in high-risk areas. The campaign comes at a time when the country is grappling with a cholera outbreak that has affected 21,000 people countrywide and claimed more than 400 people, in 60 […]
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Tue 30 January 2024: – Shin Bet security agency director Ronen Bar visited Cairo and met with his Egyptian counterpart Abbas Kamel amid Israel-Egypt tensions over war in Gaza – Philadelphia Corridor is a 14-kilometer narrow strip of land that serves as buffer zone on Egypt-Gaza border, as guaranteed by Israeli-Egyptian Peace Treaty of 1979 […]
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Tue 30 January 2024: Global efforts to fight corruption are faltering as the rule of law retreats, Transparency International (TI) said in its latest report. The watchdog reported on Tuesday, as it published the 2023 edition of its Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), that 23 countries have fallen to their lowest-ever level in the global ranking index. […]
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Tue 30 January 2024: Islamabad, Pakistan – A Pakistan court has sentenced former Prime Minister Imran Khan and former Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi to 10 years jail in a case related to the leaking of state secrets. The special court set up in a prison in Rawalpindi on Tuesday announced the sentence in the so-called […]
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Mon 29 January 2024: South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) suspended the country’s former president Jacob Zuma from the party on Monday and vowed to launch a legal challenge against a rival group campaigning in his name. Announcing the decision, ANC secretary general Fikile Mbalula declared: “Zuma, and others whose conduct is in conflict with our values […]
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Mon 29 January 2024: The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) has released its report into the July 2021 unrest that unfolded in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), during which some 350 people lost their lives. The violence and destruction also caused damage to infrastructure and businesses costing South Africa’s economy some R50 billion, with a […]
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Mon 29 January 2024: Leading companies in the technology industry, including Microsoft, OpenAI and Amazon, are strengthening their cooperation with the US military in areas from augmented reality to cyber security. According to the information compiled by Anadolu, Microsoft has a cooperation agreement with the military in the field of augmented reality-based glasses. With the […]
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Mon 29 January 2024: Five Western nations urged Kosovo on Sunday to suspend its decision to replace the local currency, the Serbian dinar, with the euro as of Feb. 1, fearing tensions between Pristina and Belgrade. The embassies of the Quint countries (the US, France, Italy, Germany and the UK) published a joint statement regarding […]
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Mon 29 January 2024: Tehran has denied any involvement in a drone strike that killed three US troops at a base in Jordan, near the border with Syria, after US President Joe Biden blamed Iran-backed militia and vowed revenge. “As we have clearly stated before, the resistance groups in the region are responding [to] the war […]
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Mon 29 January 2024: Three military-led West African nations have announced their immediate withdrawal from regional bloc ECOWAS, accusing the body of becoming a threat to its members. Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso “decide in complete sovereignty on the immediate withdrawal” from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), read a joint statement published on […]
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