President Joe Biden participates in a meeting in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday with business leaders about the debt ceiling. Photo by Samuel Corum/UPI | License Photo Oct. 6 (UPI) — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Wednesday he would support an extension of the debt limit into December as…
guest column By Ousmane Diagana, World Bank Vice President for Western and Central Africa Géraldine Wonzangba is a student like any other all over the world: a chemistry major at the University of Bangui, she is at that age where one can dream about any and everything. Her dream: to become a teacher and researcher.…
Maputo — The mandate of the Southern African Development Community Military Mission (SAMIM) in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado has been extended for a further three months, in a bid to ensure a consolidation of security in the territories freed from ISIS terrorists and the start of reconstruction. The move was announced on…
The World Health Organization (WHO) is recommending widespread use of the RTS,S/AS01 (RTS,S) malaria vaccine among children in sub-Saharan Africa and in other regions with moderate to high P. falciparum malaria transmission. The recommendation is based on results from an ongoing pilot programme in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi that has reached more than 800 000…
The State of Eritrea has made huge strides in improving the health and wellbeing of women and children since independence. This is primarily due to the strong political commitment to social development, particularly the drive to improve the lives of the mothers and children. In line with the government’s SDGs commitment, Eritrea in 2017 conducted…
Cape Town — Gambia’s former president Yahya Jammeh whose rule was characterised by allegations of widespread abuses is faced with a forfeiture process in U.S. courts. Jammeh who lost to President Adama Barrow in 2016, refused to concede defeat and ECOWAS leaders had to step in to mediate the impasse, resulting in he and his…
“If you want more effective programmers, you will discover that they should not waste their time debugging, they should not introduce the bugs to start with.” —Edsger Dijkstra, Turing Award Lecture (1972) I was a High School Junior when I received in the mail the issue of Computer Language magazine that changed the way I…
People wearing face masks cross a road amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Singapore May 14, 2021. REUTERS/Caroline ChiaSINGAPORE, Sept 28 (Reuters) – Singapore’s population size this year saw its sharpest percentage drop since 1950, a report said on Tuesday, as coronavirus-induced travel restriction kept foreigners away from the Asian financial hub.It was the…
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Lewis Hamilton taking a new engine and starting at the back of the grid for Turkish GP is “a possibility”, says Toto Wolff; Hamilton’s title rival Max Verstappen took penalty in Russia and recovered from 20th to second behind Mercedes driver By Matt Morlidge Last Updated: 05/10/21 9:48am Please use Chrome browser for a more…
