here is your latest african news your news highlights africa wide us president
joe biden seeks to strengthen political economic alliances with africa kenya facebook slammed for
gagging kenyan whistleblower uganda uganda rejects compulsory adult vaccines zimbabwe chinese embassy
in zimbabwe accused of bullying media rwanda uk ambassador dison's memo and ronda salem plan
angola children of jose eduardo de santo accepted that his remains will be buried in angola
zimbabwe victoria falls reportedly risks losing world heritage site status from un diaspora
banana workers from latin america have said pesticides used by u.s companies made them sterile
africa-wide us president joe biden seeks to strengthen political economic alliances with
africa after the 27th february u.n general assembly vote on russia ukraine which tested
africa's political and military alliances u.s president joe biden will in december meet some
of the african leaders who chose to abstain from voting in person 17 of the 54 african countries
chose to sit on the fence eight abstained and only retrieve openly sided with russia
in what the u.s calls putin's war in ukraine with a clear indication the u.s is competing
for africa's attention while russia and china are also pushing their separate interests biden will
seek to mend fences strengthen and hopefully make new friends when he hosts about 50 african leaders
in washington at the u.s africa leaders summit which will be held from 13th to 15th december
kenya facebook slammed for gagging kenyan whistleblower
dozens of rights groups and campaigners have signed a letter calling on facebook to drop
all attempts to silence whistleblower daniel morton they accused the tech giant of trying
to crush his efforts to improve labor conditions for facebook moderators in kenya and around the
world mr mortung says he was paid about two dollars 20 cents per hour by summer one of
facebook's contractors to review posts including beheadings and child abuse he's suing both firms
in a kenyan court in response both sam and facebook applied for a gag order on mr motang
saying that he could prejudice the outcome of the case by talking to the media facebook and
its parent company meta have not responded to the letter which was signed by facebook whistleblower
francis hogan author shoshanna zobot and the african freedom of information center among others
uganda uganda rejects compulsory adult vaccines
a proposed new law to make vaccines compulsory for all adults in the event of a mass disease outbreak
has been rejected by uganda's parliaments the health ministry said the bill was designed to
tackle emerging health threats like hemorrhagic fevers and wanted any rule breakers to be fined
1045 or face a six-month jail sentence but mps raised concerns about the rights of individuals
to choose and question who would take liability for vaccine side effects uganda is currently
struggling to meet its target of vaccinating 22 million people about half its population
against kovy 19. routine vaccination of children against communicable diseases remains mandatory
but in the case of new emerging diseases the permission of their parents is required
zimbabwe chinese embassy in zimbabwe accused of bullying media
zimbabwe's media alliance has condemned the chinese embassy in harare for threatening a weekly
newspaper after it published articles on violation by chinese mining companies the group says
the embassy threatened an unspecified cohesive retaliation against the standard newspaper which
the coal legion called an attack on press freedom nigel nyamu tumbu head of the media alliance
say the chinese embassy did not specify the retribution they would take against the newspaper
in question and this was a concern especially from a global powerhouse in the mould of china
masunda said his organization will continue to report accurately and fairly in zimbabwe
ronda uk ambassador disown's memo and ronda asalam plan the uk high commissioner tyrande omar
daria has disowned a memo sent to the home office advising against any asylum deal with the country
the memo had criticized ronda's human rights record and heavy-handed security according to
documents from the home office presented to court by lawyers for those challenging the policy on
july 20th mr darius said the memo was written by his predecessor two months before he began in the
post britain announced in april an agreement with rwanda to send some of its migrants there
for processing instead but no one has yet been flown out because of a series of legal challenges
angola children of jose eduardo dos santos accept that his remains be buried in angola the family
of former angolan president jose eduardo dos santos has agreed on the place of his burial
the dos santos children have agreed that their father will be buried in luanda angola but only
after the general elections on august 24th since the death of the former angolan president on july
8 the family had been arguing with the angolan authorities who wanted a burial to be held in
the country so that the people would pay tribute to him jose eduardo dos santos who died at the
age of 79 made history after serving as angola's president for 38 years until 2017. in a letter
written by the dos santos children addressed to the current angolan leader zhao lorenko the family
expressed deep gratitude to the angolan people while asking for respect of the african traditions
that imposed the respect of a time of moaning they also asked not to be targeted after the funeral
zimbabwe victoria falls reportedly risks losing world heritage site status from un
their fears the victoria falls could be delisted as a world heritage site following
massive construction activities either side of the zambezi river which might have tampered
with some animal corridors and natural sites these have been carried out on either sides of
the zambezi river between zambia and zimbabwe since the united nations educational scientific
and cultural organization unesco added victoria falls to that list in 1989 this was based on
its unique geomorphological formation and remarkable natural beauty unesco is assessing
if the destination still qualifies as a world heritage site as the custodian of these sites
unesco recently sent a monitoring team to assess the current state of victoria falls
and its environs the un body has demanded to carry periodic assessments zambia's national commission
secretary general for unesco charles da cala led the monitoring team he mentioned possible outcomes
which includes downgrading red listing or removing from the list victoria falls falling water blanket
is about 1.7 kilometers wide and the falls 108 meters down the gorge and is classified
as the largest waterfall in the world the waterfall is within victoria falls national
park which together with the victoria falls bridge attracts a significant number of tourists annually
diaspora banana workers from latin america have said pesticides used by u.s companies made them
sterile tens of thousands of former banana workers say they were made sterile by a pesticide used by
u.s companies on plantations in latin america in the 1970s the united states restricted and then
banned its use on the u.s mainland because of the health risks but workers in central america
and south america continue to be exposed to it grace livingstone reports from panama
on the workers decades-long battle for justice standard fruit now known as dole fruit began
using dbcp on banana plantations in latin america in the 1960s while chiquita and del monte began in
the early 1970s according to a lawsuit lodged in u.s courts dole and chiquita continued to use dbcp
in central america after 1977 even though u.s regulators had restricted its use in mainland
u.s because of the health risks in that year 35 workers at the dbcp manufacturing plant
in latin america were found to be sterile thanks for watching please subscribe follow
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