World powers criticise China after WHO report on Covid-19
Friday April 02 2021
A handout illustration image obtained February 3, 2020, courtesy of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reveals ultrastructural morphology exhibited by coronaviruses. PHOTO | CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION | ALISSA ECKERT | HANDOUT | AFP
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On Tuesday, a team of health experts under the WHO and China released the report on their findings, showing the virus may have been transmitted to humans from bats through a possible intermediate.
And although experts found surfaces at the main market in Wuhan contaminated, they could not determine the actual source of the contamination.
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US promises new chapter after Sudan compensates bombing victims
Thursday April 01 2021
S Secretary of State Antony Blinken. The US promised a “new chapter” with Sudan after Khartoum compensated American victims of the Al-Qaeda attacks. PHOTO | AFP
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says Sudan has settled $335 million to the US, as part of a deal to pay American victims of terror attacks which Sudan had been accused of fomenting.
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The US has promised a “new chapter” with Sudan after Khartoum completed compensation payments to American victims of terror attacks in Kenya, Tanzania and Yemen.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday that Sudan had settled $335 million to the US, as part of a deal to pay American victims of terror attacks which Sudan had been accused of fomenting.
Third wave of Covid-19 hits a battered Kenyan economy
Saturday March 13 2021
Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta gives his address to the nation on the health guidelines for the year on March 12, 2021. PHOTO | PSCU
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The country’s economy had grown 10 times slower than planned.
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Kenya is accepting that the cost of reducing loss of lives from the Covid-19 pandemic is woeful economic performance.
In his first address to the nation on the health guidelines for 2021, President Uhuru Kenyatta said that the country’s economy had grown 10 times slower than planned.
President Kenyatta presented data on Friday that shows Kenya’s economy, which had been projected to grow by 6.2 percent had only risen by 0.6 percent and lost Ksh560 billion ($5.6 billion) of GDP.