(AFRRICAN EXAMINER) – An estimate of 43,000 people may have been given wrong negative PCR COVID-19 test results in Britain, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said. The Agency said testing operations provided by Immensa Health Clinic at its laboratory in Wolverhampton have been suspended. “It has been suspended following an investigation into reports of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The World Health Organisation (WHO) said deaths from Tuberculosis (TB), one of the top infectious killers in the world, increased for the first time in a decade, as a direct result of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. WHO’s 2021 Global TB report highlighted how years of global progress in tackling the disease had […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – One of the largest private aid organizations in Germany, Welthungerhilfe has hinted that more than 800 million people are currently going hungry around the world. Welthungerhilfe is politically independent and non-denominational organization that is fighting hunger around the world and is focusing it works around the Sustainable Development Goal 2 (Zero Hunger […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Syrian soldier was killed and three others wounded in an Israeli airstrike in central Homs province. Syrian TV and the state-run Syrian News Agency (SANA) said that shortly after midnight Israeli strikes hit the eastern countryside of Homs, targeting a communications tower and surrounding points. According to the report, the attack […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – South Korea’s employment growth has hit the highest in seven and a half years in September, indicating a labour market recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, statistical office data showed on Wednesday. The number of those employed totaled 27,683,000 in September, up 671,000 from a year earlier, according to data from Statistics Korea. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Low-income countries’ debt rose by 12 per cent to 860 billion dollars in 2020, the International Debt Statistics (IDS) 2022 report of the World Bank says. The report was released on Monday at the World Bank/International Monetary Fund (IMF) Annual Meetings in Washington. The report said that governments around the world responded […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – American actor, Granville Adams, popularly known as the lead character Zahir Arif in the prison series, Oz, has died at the age of 58 after battling cancer. In a statement by his family via his Instagram page, the actor died with his wife, Christina, by his side. Though the family statement was […]
(AFRICAN EXEMINER) – A Facebook executive said Sunday that the company would introduce new measures on its apps to prompt teens away from harmful content, as U.S lawmakers scrutinize how Facebook and subsidiaries like Instagram affect young people’s mental health. Nick Clegg, Facebook’s vice president of global affairs, also expressed openness to the idea of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – California has made it illegal to remove a condom during sex without verbal consent, a practice popularly known as “stealthing.” Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill on Thursday that classifies the removal of a condom without consent as “sexual battery.” “By passing this bill, we are underlining the importance of consent,” the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An outbreak of dengue fever has hit major Pakistani cities, overwhelming hospitals and further exhausting health workers already fatigued by the coronavirus pandemic, officials said on Wednesday. Hospitals in the capital Islamabad and eastern city of Lahore were running out of beds in the isolation wards as patients with the symptoms of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The global economy lost billions of dollars as Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram as it shut down at about 4.42pm on Monday. According to NetBlocks, which tracks internet outages and their impact, the outage had already cost the global economy about $160m per hour. Facebook stock had gone down by about 5.5 per cent. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – U.S. President Joe Biden has mourned the about 700,000 Americans who lost their lives to COVID-19. Biden, in his twitter handle on Saturday night, said: “Today, we mark another grim and heartbreaking milestone in this pandemic: over 700,000 Americans lost. “As we acknowledge the tragic scale of this death toll, we must […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Philippine President, Rodrigo Duterte on Saturday said that he was retiring from politics and has decided not to run for vice president in next year’s elections. This, he said, was amidst surveys showing Filipinos believed it would violate the constitution. Duterte, whose six-year term as president ends 2022, instead endorsed his long-time […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – British care home workers who are not prepared to get the COVID vaccine should “get out and get another job,’’ Health Secretary Sajid Javid said on Saturday. Javid brushed off appeals from providers to pause the legal requirement for staff in England to be fully vaccinated, amid warnings some homes will be […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Many British gas stations were still dry on Friday after a chaotic week that saw panic buying, fights at the pumps and drivers hoarding fuel in water bottles. These situations follow an acute shortage of truck drivers strained supply chains to breaking point. Shortages of workers in the wake of Brexit and […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former French president, Nicolas Sarkozy has been sentenced to one year under house arrest over illegal campaign financing, a court in Paris ruled on Thursday. The court ruled that the 66-year-old could serve the sentence in the form of electronically monitored house arrest with an ankle bracelet. According to the court, Sarkozy […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – British troops are expected to be deployed within days to help ease a fuel supply crisis, the government said on Wednesday, as the retail and hospitality sectors called for foreign workers to be allowed to fill post-Brexit vacancies. The week-long crisis has triggered panic-buying and sparked violence at forecourts as critics blame […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – North Korea has called a South Korean proposal to declare a formal end to the Korean War “an interesting and an admirable idea” and signalled a willingness to resume talks with some preconditions. “The declaration of the termination of the war is an interesting and an admirable idea in that itself is […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday finalised a rule that will slash the use of a potent climate-warming gas commonly used in refrigerators and air conditioners by 85 per cent over the next 15 years. This move will help halve greenhouse gas emissions this decade. The rule aims to phase out […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Malaysians from Wednesday can resume sending international mail after a break of more than a year which the national postal service put down to the Coronavirus pandemic’s impact on air transport. Sending is to be limited to 56 countries “due to limited international flights available,” POS Malaysia said, listing many European countries […]
