August 2021

Wildfires in southern Turkey forced more people to flee their homes yesterday even as pressure on the government grew over its response to the deadly forest fires.

Turkey has suffered the worst fires in at least a decade, official data show, with nearly 95,000 hectares (235,000 acres) burned so far this year, compared with an average of 13,516 at this point in the year between 2008 and 2020.

Since the fires broke out last Wednesday, six people have died and more than 330 have received medical treatment.

A neighbourhood in the tourist city of Bodrum was evacuated, CNN Turk broadcaster …

Residents of an east Sudanese town said Monday they had seen bodies washing up the river on the border with Ethiopia’s conflict-hit Tigray region in recent days.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that the unidentified bodies were floating on the Setit River known in Ethiopia as the Tekeze, which runs through its northern Tigray region — since Saturday, according to residents from Wad al-Hilou in Sudan’s Kassala state.

‘The bodies I saw today were wounded and had their hands tied,’ one witness told reporters

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Tefera Tewodoros, an Ethiopian doctor working at …

Rivers State Executive Council on Monday approved a total shut down of the Oginiba slaughter market located in Trans -Amadi Industrial layout in Obio-Akpor Local Government Area.

The council gave the approval in its weekly meeting which was presided over by Gov. Nyesom Wike at Government House in Port Harcourt.

Dr Fred Kpakol, the State Commissioner for Agriculture, while briefing journalists after the council meeting explained that a new government project has been designated to be sited at the land in Trans-Amadi.

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Kpakol stated that all occupants and …

Chinese cities rolled out mass testing of millions of people and imposed fresh travel restrictions as health authorities battled yesterday to contain the country’s most widespread coronavirus outbreak in months.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that China on Sunday reported about 75 new coronavirus cases with 53 local transmissions, with a cluster linked to an eastern airport now reported to have spread to over 20 cities and more than a dozen provinces.

The fresh outbreak is geographically the largest to hit China in several months after the country’s successes in largely snuffing out the pandemic within its borders last …

As the third wave of the rampaging COVID-19 pandemic rages on in Nigeria, Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has revealed that an average of six deaths was recorded daily over the last week in Lagos as a result of the sneaky virus.

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Sanwo-Olu made this disclosure on Monday while briefing State House correspondents at Lagos House, Alausa, Ikeja, on the situation report and update on the management of COVID-19 in the state.

The governor also stated that the AstraZeneca and Moderna vaccines against the virus can not be mixed as …

Madagascar yesterday announced the arrest of five generals as well as high-ranking police officers in connection with a failed attempt to assassinate President Andry Rajoelina, the attorney general disclosed.

‘To date, 21 people have been arrested and investigated,’ Berthine Razafiarivony told a news briefing.

Six people, including two French citizens, were initially arrested on suspicion of involvement in the attempt.

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Africa Daily News, New York among the latest arrests, ’12 are active military and police personnel, including five generals, two captains, and five non-commissioned officers,’ she said.

Four of those arrested are …

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has claimed that the COVID-19 pandemic might not be the last the world would have to endure, even as it called for sustained fight against the virus.

Country Representative to Nigeria made this  Dr Walter Kazadi Mulombo, disclosed this at the ninth General Meeting and Scientific Conference of the Epidemiological Society of Nigeria held in Port Harcourt.

Mulombo said the pandemic has provided Nigeria and the global community opportunity to strengthen immunisation, build capacity of health workers and strengthen disease surveillance.

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He noted: ‘COVID-19 …