Upon instructions from the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nikos Dendias, our Embassy in Ankara made a démarche to the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs to protest the wrongful and unjustified detention and deportation order against the President of the…
Continue ReadingMACHINGA, MALAWI – Malawi had nearly 7 million malaria cases last year, more than a third of the population, with 2,500 lives lost to the mosquito-borne disease. However, one village has become a model for how to eradicate malaria and in June was honored as the first ever to have zero malaria cases for a […]
Continue ReadingNAIROBI – The United States says it is sending a special envoy to Ethiopia as the fast-moving conflict in the Tigray region has spread into neighboring regions and Ethiopia’s government this week called on all able citizens to stop the resurgent Tigray forces “once and for all.” The widening war in Africa’s second-most populous country, […]
Continue ReadingNearly 30,000 children in sub-Saharan Africa are believed to have died from cancer during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Regional Office of the World Health Organization (WHO). Drastic measures to prevent coronavirus spread, and heightened focus by health systems on response, led to disruptions in other essential health services on the continent. Cancer screening and treatment, […]
Continue ReadingHARARE, ZIMBABWE – Churches in Zimbabwe are questioning the government’s sincerity in allowing them to hold services for the vaccinated when only about 10% of the country’s population has been vaccinated against COVID-19. The government said this week that Christians who had received two shots could gather, a move some see as a way to […]
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