• Jim Yong Kim, World Bank president, warned the outbreak could drain billions of dollars from the West Africa region. (slideshare.net)
  • The conflict in Mali has raised concerns of an Islamist radicalization across West Africa, with Islamists threatening to take revenge for the French intervention. (rferl.org)
  • Wassupafrica02 Pretoria (AFP) - South Africa hosted an emergency meeting of regional leaders to negotiate a peace deal for Lesotho , following an attempted coup and stalled peace talks between deadlocked political parties. (slideshare.net)
  • Prime Minister Tom Thabane has since returned, protected by South African guards, but a Pretoria-brokered peace deal quickly disintegrated after he refused to reopen parliament. (slideshare.net)
  • Palestinians fleeing from northern Gaza to the south after the Israeli army issued an unprecedented evacuation warning to a population of over 1 million people in northern Gaza and Gaza City to seek refuge in the south ahead of a possible Israeli ground invasion, Friday, Oct. 13, 2023. (wtnh.com)
  • Indo Africa Times, a weekly newspaper has its key intend to create extensive awareness amongst people about Africa and India concerning different sectors like economy, politics, culture, fashion, sports and many more. (slideshare.net)
  • It is our sincere endeavor to bridge the information gap between Africa and India by endowing our readers with updated and latest developments occurring in both the countries. (slideshare.net)
  • Qacha's Nek is a constituency and, since 1888, the camptown (capital) of Qacha's Nek District in Lesotho, only two kilometers from the South African border at 1,980 meters (6,500 ft) above sea level. (wikipedia.org)
  • It is home to Machabeng Government Hospital, one of the two hospitals in the district (the other being the Lesotho Evangelical Church's Tebellong Hospital, which is about 40 kilometres (25 mi) away, across the Orange River which is known as Senqu in Lesotho). (wikipedia.org)
  • The town has 900 mm precipitation per year, the highest annual rainfall of any Lesotho district capitals. (wikipedia.org)
  • Price `10 pg08 pg 04 pg 02 pg 10 Continued to page 03 pg 07 I've felt a deep connection to Africa South Africa hosts Lesotho crisis summit H e was an appropriate pick for the position of Prime Minister along with the accountabilities that come with that office. (slideshare.net)
  • New York) - Deadly attacks on hospitals and medical workers in conflicts around the world remain uninvestigated and unpunished a year after the United Nations Security Council called for greater action, Human Rights Watch said today. (hrw.org)
  • Attacks on hospitals challenge the very foundation of the laws of war, and are unlikely to stop as long as those responsible for the attacks can get away with them," said Bruno Stagno-Ugarte , deputy executive director for advocacy at Human Rights Watch. (hrw.org)
  • Attacks on hospitals are especially insidious, because when you destroy a hospital and kill its health workers, you're also risking the lives of those who will need their care in the future. (hrw.org)
  • The attacks also had significant impact on health services as 16 hospitals were partially or completely closed, at least temporarily. (hrw.org)
  • Even though the hospital was in chaos - its electricity dwindling under an Israeli siege, its beds overwhelmed, its morgue overflowing - Abu Selim said there was simply no other safe place in Gaza to put 600 patients, many of them in serious condition from the attacks. (wtnh.com)
  • Should he heed the Israeli army's demand that all Palestinians evacuate and make the risky trip to Gaza's south, where his only certainty was homelessness? (wtnh.com)
  • As the clock ticked on the ultimatum, hundreds of thousands of Israeli army reservists were massing near Gaza's northern border. (wtnh.com)
  • According to two Iraqi news agencies, Alghad Press and Al-Youm Al-Thamen (the 8th Day), as well as sources in the Iraqi city of Mosul, Baghdadi died in an Israeli hospital in the occupied Golan Heights where he had been hospitalized for treatment after sustaining severe injuries during a joint attack of the Iraqi army and popular forces. (newageislam.com)
  • Witnesses told Ma'an that Israeli soldiers traveling in a civilian car opened fire at a group of people at the entrance to al-Arrub refugee camp south of Bethlehem. (blogspot.com)
  • Earlier on Wednesday, Salih al-Amarin, 15, died of his wounds in an Israeli hospital after being shot in the head during clashes with Israeli soldiers in a refugee camp in Bethlehem on Friday. (blogspot.com)
  • He is currently managing his division's border health response for the 2018 DRC Ebola outbreak and also supports other emergency preparedness and response activities. (cdc.gov)
  • The In Amenas gas facility is more than 1,000 kilometers from the border with Mali, but near the border with Libya. (rferl.org)
  • In another, in February 2016, airstrikes hit the two largest hospitals serving the city of Ma'aret al-Nu'man, Syria, destroying one of the hospitals and killing 20 people, including 11 health workers. (hrw.org)
  • For example, a Saudi Arabia-led coalition task force investigating potential violations by their forces in Yemen concluded that an August 2016 attack on a hospital in the city of Abs, Hajjah governorate, was an "error" but failed to determine whether the attack violated the laws of war. (hrw.org)
  • Le Point reported that French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian had quickly agreed earlier this week to a "major innovation" in ordering the Special Forces Command to send troops to protect the Areva uranium production sites in Imouraren, and 80 kilometers away in Arlit. (blogspot.com)
  • While the countries that stand to benefit are mostly in Africa, the relief is also extended to Afghanistan, Yemen and Haiti. (dw.com)
  • JOHANNESBURG (AP) - Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has called for stronger trade relations among African countries and lamented the high cost of buying products and services outside the continent. (blogspot.com)
  • What countries border Namibia? (countryreports.org)
  • Following the October 2015 attack by the US military on a trauma center in Kunduz, Afghanistan, that killed 42 people and injured dozens of others, a US Defense Department investigation concluded that the attack violated the laws of war, but was not a war crime because the hospital was not targeted intentionally. (hrw.org)
  • Tatarstan isn't considered a safe region regarding the African swine fever [ASF] anymore, claimed vice head of the Main Veterinary Office of the Tatarstan Cabinet of Ministers, Gabdulkhak Motygullin, on Dec. 21. (ceezad.org)
  • I will start with the unpleasant news: a mortality case of wild boars in Yelabuga District was found on Dec. 19. (ceezad.org)
  • The district was in the news earlier due to Nipah virus cases. (ceezad.org)
  • Subjects include personal activities, education, South Asia, South Asian community, regional and international affairs and US politics to financial markets. (riazhaq.com)
  • The people of Qacha's Nek are called "Melele" (Wanderers), and the colours of the place / district are maroon and white. (wikipedia.org)
  • A jumbled line of tractors, horse carts and donkeys stretched some 30 kilometers (18 miles) across the strip, turning what is normally a breezy 45-minute trip into a harrowing - and for dozens of people, deadly - two-hour journey. (wtnh.com)
  • A total of 50 cases were reported from the health district of Koundara in northwest Guinea, one from the health district of Dubreka (near Conakry, in the southwest), and one from the health district of Kouroussa, in the center of the country. (ceezad.org)
  • Namibia is a southern African country with a moderately developed economy. (countryreports.org)
  • The new French military intervention in northwest Africa was first reported by the weekly magazine Le Point and confirmed by military sources contacted by other sections of the French media. (blogspot.com)
  • Kozhikode District Medical Officer Dr. V. Jayasree, however, said that there was no need to panic and that the Health Department had taken measures to contain the disease. (ceezad.org)
  • France intervened in its former West African colony on January 11 at the request of the Mali government to halt the Islamists' push southward toward the capital, Bamako. (rferl.org)
  • A West African regional force is also expected to deploy under a UN Security Council resolution. (rferl.org)
  • The locality may be the only place in Africa where California Redwood trees grow (the area is visible on the photo, to the right-hand side of the wooded Letloepe hill). (wikipedia.org)
  • In understaffed and poorly supplied hospitals, Palestinian doctors said they felt they had no choice but to stay put. (wtnh.com)
  • French media reports said special forces were fighting alongside the Malian Army against the rebels in Diabaly, some 300 kilometers north of Bamako. (rferl.org)
  • Under the cover of a supposed war against Islamist "terrorists" and a defense of the central government in Mali, French imperialism is using its military might to tighten its grip on its resource-rich former African colonies. (blogspot.com)
  • Museveni on Tuesday began a state visit to South Africa in a bid to encourage better economic ties between Uganda and Africa's most developed economy. (blogspot.com)
  • Authorities in Kozhikode district in Kerala went into high alert mode after a boy was found infected with the contagious Shigella bacterium. (ceezad.org)
  • Among some of his priorities were the procurement of coal from South Africa to be used to transform Uganda's high-grade iron ore into steel, Museveni said. (blogspot.com)
  • South African President Jacob Zuma and Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe chairman of the 15-member Southern African Development Community (SADC) - will sit down with Lesotho's leaders to hash out a solution after rival party leaders failed to patch up their differences. (slideshare.net)
  • Moreover, groups of hunters have mobilized in Yelabuga District to catch wild animals to prevent the disease from spreading. (ceezad.org)