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But following complaints, the pharmacy chain will start scheduling Pfizer vaccine doses three weeks apart. The Navajo Nation has managed to control what was once one of the worst outbreaks in the United States. But infections are rising nationally, and health officials are warning of another surge.
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Gov. Greg Gianforte of Montana received a shot of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine at a Walgreenâs pharmacy last week in Helena, Mont.Credit.Thom Bridge/Independent Record, via Associated Press
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March 14th 2021 at 09:29:06 GMT +0300
Some of the 26 Maasai women shortly after they were rescued from a one-year jail in Tanzania by Kajiado Governor Joseph Lenku.The governor flew to the country on Thursday where he was engaged in high-level negotiations with Tanzanian security and judiciary officials to secure the release of the women. [Peterson Githaiga, Standard].
Kajiado Governor Joseph ole Lenku rescued 26 women from the county from serving a one-year jail term in Tanzania.
The women traders had crossed over to a Tanzanian market to sell their wares, where they were arrested, arraigned and convicted of being in the country illegally. They were each ordered to pay Sh1 million fine or serve one year in jail.
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Wednesday January 27 2021
Somalia s President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed with Kenya s President Uhuru Kenyatta at State House, Nairobi, on March 23, 2017.
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Somalia on Wednesday threatened to withdraw from a regional bloc after the group ruled in favour of Kenya in a diplomatic row between the two countries.
A fact-finding mission was created by the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (Igad) last month seeking, in an intervention aimed at easing tensions between the two neighbouring countries.
On December 15, Somalia cut diplomatic ties with Kenya and wrote to the regional bloc of eight members, demanding an independent mission to verify claims that Kenya was arming and training militia to fight the Somalia National Army forces stationed in Gedo near their common border.
ADDIS ABABA (SD) – African Union Commission (AUC) has called on Somalia and Kenya authorities to iron out their diplomatic raw at the negotiating table, saying peace on the Somalia-Kenya border is vital to regional stability.
The Chairperson of AUC, Moussa Faki on Tuesday morning, said that he is following the tensions on the two neighbouring countries with concern.
“I’m following the tensions on the Kenya-Somalia border with concern, and urge the two neighbours to exercise restraint and engage in dialogue in conformity with the IGAD-led process,” Faki said.
The remarks of the chairperson come barely aday after Somalia accused Kenya of aiding and supporting forces led by fugitive Jubbaland security Minister Abdirashid Janan who attacked Belet-Hawa town on Monday.