Yemen declares health emergency over epidemics
ource: Xinhua 1 A Yemeni child infected with malaria receives treatment at a hospital in Sanaa, Yemen, on Nov. 13, 2019. Yemen’s health authorities declared...
Month : November 2019
Uhuru at Sagana for Gema meeting. What are the expectations?
The leaders attending the meeting are drawn from Gema communities both from the region and those from the diaspora such as Lamu, Nakuru, Nairobi and...
Israel fires fresh strikes on Gaza
The ceasefire had been agreed between Israel and Palestinian militants after two days of fighting in Gaza triggered by an Israeli strike on an Islamic...
Gaza ceasefire under pressure after renewed Israeli air attacks
Truce between Islamic Jihad and Israel came into effect on Thursday morning after 34 Palestinians were killed in raids. Israel’s army said early...
Qatar’s cost of living declines 0.84% year-on-year in October
Santhosh V. Perumal *The country also witnessed a 0.83% decline in inflation on monthly basis, shows figures released by the Planning and Statistics Authority Qatar’s...
The US and Britain face no existential threat. So why do their wars go on?
Simon Jenkins ndless conflicts in the Middle East have cost us dear, yet all we hear are absurdities about ‘keeping our streets safe from terror’...
An Air India flight was delayed 12hrs after a stowaway rat was spotted in the cabin
An Air India flight flying from Hyderabad to Visakhapatnam was delayed for 12 hours after a rat was spotted in the cabin. Flight AI-952 was...
Diabetes tied to increased risk of hidden spinal fractures
HEALTH People with type 2 diabetes are more likely than others to develop spinal fractures that sometimes have no obvious symptoms but are tied...
Immigrants aren’t South Africa’s biggest problem
ANALYSIS South Africa is back in the news yet again for all the wrong reasons. At least 12 people were killed and hundreds arrested after...
Somali women take on South Africa’s property market
PROPERTY AND INVESTMENT In the hallway of a large, brick-face apartment block in Johannesburg, Halima Jawahir greets her tenants, a group of six Somali...