British Man Becomes First Person To Run The Length of Africa
Russ Cook, a British man finally reached his destination after completing an epic 352-day journey spanning 16 countries and covering over 9,940 miles (16,000km) across Africa.
Russ Cook, a British man finally reached his destination after completing an epic 352-day journey spanning 16 countries and covering over 9,940 miles (16,000km) across Africa.
A UN helicopter carrying medics and soldiers was captured by a terrorist group in Somalia. The UN helicopter landed unexpectedly on Al-Shabab territory due to some technical error, local journalists told the BBC.
An Israeli observer diplomate was told to leave the African Union summit currently held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The incident has left Israeli officials concerned about the intentions of the African Union. Israeli Foreign Ministry blamed Algeria and South Africa for what happened. Those told to leave included the Deputy Director for Africa at the Foreign Ministry, Sharon Barley, and some other members of the Israeli delegation.
The World Health Organization has confirmed the outbreak of a new deadly virus called ‘Marburg virus’ in Equatorial Guinea. At Least nine people died because of the Ebola like virus, according to WHO. In 2014, the Ebola virus killed 11,310 people in two years in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone.
Putin sought to promote “unity of humankind”, globalism and economic integration.
He characterized the West’s approach to the rest of the world as “be like us, do like us”. In his eyes the West in its arrogance considers non-Western states below itself.
The World Health Organization has declared the growing monkeypox outbreak the ‘Public Health Emergency of International Concern’-the highest alert level. The designation means that the WHO now sees monkeypox as an important enough threat to global health that a coordinated international response is required to prevent the further spreading of the virus and its escalation into a pandemic.
Reports of MonkeyPox are multiplying around the world and the United States. Worldwide, there have been over 10,000 cases reported of viral illness, including more than 1,400 in the U.S. alone. And so far, mass vaccination efforts in early hot spots like New York City have been stymied by website crashes and low supply.
Researchers investigating the genetic make-up of the MonkeyPox virus have said the virus appears to have mutated far, far more than would normally be expected and has undergone a period of “accelerated evolution”. So far 50 new mutations of the MonkeyPox Virus have been found.
Nine people have died in Congo while Nigeria has recorded its first death from the latest MonkeyPox outbreak this year, even as at least 23 countries continue to grapple with the sudden spread of the disease. In its statement on Sunday, the World Health Organization said that the MonkeyPox virus has been spread to 23 non-endemic countries now, and there has so far been a cumulative total of 257 laboratory-confirmed cases and around 120 suspected cases.
The World Health Organization issued a warning on Thursday that African governments must get extra 20 million doses of AstraZeneca’s COVID vaccination within the next
