Zimbabwe Reimposes a Lockdown to Contain Rising Coronavirus Cases
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s government on Monday is reintroducing a lockdown as a way to contain rising coronavirus cases in the southern African nation.Announcing the reintroduction of the lockdown Saturday night on national television, Vice President Consta…
Read MorePandemic may push zero child labour 2025 goal further away if we do not act
“I have never gone to school because my parents do not have resources”, says Ruth, a 14-year old girl from Cameroon. “I am aware of the dangers down there in the mine, […] but I do not have another choice”. COVID-19 exacerbated the root causes driving …
Read MoreCameroon Albinos Ask for Greater Attention, Care
YAOUNDÉ – International Albinism Awareness Day on June 13 has been observed in Cameroon, with albinos asking for more government and community care and protection. Those living with this hereditary genetic condition that reduces melanin pigment in skin…
Read MoreCameroon Aids CAR Citizens Displaced by Ongoing Post-Election Violence
YAOUNDE, CAMEROON – Cameroon has offered huge consignments of food and mattresses to at least 3,000 displaced persons said to be in dire need on its eastern border with the Central African Republic. Most of the people, displaced by violence following D…
Read MoreMystery Over Claim World’s 1st ‘Decuplets’ Born in S. Africa
JOHANNESBURG – South Africa has been gripped by the mystery of whether a woman has, as has been claimed, actually given birth to 10 babies, in what would then be the world’s first recorded case of decuplets.Gosiame Thamara Sithole from the Tembisa town…
Read MoreUN General Assembly Confirms 5 Countries to Security Council
NEW YORK – The U.N. General Assembly voted Friday to give two-year terms on the powerful 15-nation Security Council to five countries. Albania, Brazil, Gabon, Ghana and the United Arab Emirates all ran unopposed for available seats in their regional…
Read MoreFood Aid Not Reaching Tigray, People Dying, UN Says
GENEVA – The World Food Program warns the food situation in northern Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region has reached catastrophic proportions and people are beginning to die.The United Nations warns more than 350,000 people in Tigray are facing near fam…
Read More160 Million of World’s Children Forced to Work During Pandemic, UN Says
GENEVA – A new report finds 160 million children or nearly one child in ten is involved in child labor globally, an increase of 8.4 million since 2016. A joint report by the International Labor Organization and UN Children’s Fund warns the COVID-19 pa…
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