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africa wide afghan highlights in yesterday's semi-final match egypt beat host cameroon 3-1
in a penalty shootout victory egypt will proceed to play senegal in sunday's africa cup finals
worldwide celebrating world cancer day 2022 with the theme of closing the care gap
today the world celebrates world cancer day with a theme of closing the caregiver aiming to raise
awareness about the huge difference in cancer care and prevention that people from different parts of
the world and society can afford this is dedicated to recognizing this global scourge and the
patients and families who live with died from and survived cancer every year cancer kills nearly 10
million people with 70 percent of fatalities being over the age of 65. the theme aims to avail people
with low income lack of educational qualifications and disabilities care for cancer globally
africa wide africa cdc has dubbed this year's africa union summit a covet-free meeting
africa cdc director dr john gengasong has commended the successful and swift corvid
testing and preventative measures put in place in this year's au summit in addis ababa he added that
the measures put in place like social distancing wearing the n92 mask reducing the number of
delegations have been working well the director also asked african leaders to strengthen the
covet-free africa initiative back in their home countries and hope that the leaders will focus
on vaccine administering and also encouraging more countries to participate in local vaccine
manufacturing in the continent mauritius mauritius devastated by tropical cyclone bhatsurai mauritius
has issued a class 4 warning the highest weather alert in anticipation for a cyclone batsurai that
is approaching the indian ocean islands it has been elevated to an intense tropical cyclone
and the weather is expected to deteriorate further with heavy rainfall and storms all over the island
nation the electrical network has suffered due to strong winds as 14 000 homes are currently without
electricity as residents have evacuated their homes looking for refuge in government centers
africa wide eca announces its annual business forum in the context of the au summit
the economic commission for africa eca has announced that it will host along with its
partners the flagship initiative the africa business forum on monday 7th of february
on the margins of the african union summit in addis ababa the forum will bring together heads
of state with ceos and other stakeholders with the focus of the forum being transport a sector
that is critical to maximizing the benefits of the african continental free trade area
sierra leone illegal over fishing by chinese trawlers threatens locals as illegal industrial
scale fishing by foreign fleets pileages africa's fish populations the local coastal communities
of sierra leone say they feel powerless the west african country's fishing industry employs about
five hundred thousand people as it represents twelve percent of the economy and is the source
of eighty percent of the population's food consumption fishermen have over the years say
that catch is dwindling rapidly due to sustained overfishing on a large scale putting the blame
on foreign chinese fleets about 40 percent of industrial licenses are owned by chinese vessels
though legal locals say they pay meager fees for their permits and add little to the local economy
illegal unregulated and unreported fishing has over the years been a huge problem
costing sierra leone more than 50 million dollars annually mozambique poaching masterminds sentenced
to 30 years a maputo court has sentenced the leader of a gang of poachers admiral chalky
to 30 years imprisonment the culprit locally known as chaoke led a gang that operated in
mozambique and the kruger national park in south africa he was arrested on 3rd may 2021 after an
unsuccessful attempt to poach rare rhinoceros with the intention of trafficking the horns to buyers
in asian countries such as vietnam and china he was found guilty of the crimes of poaching
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