Year: 2022
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Africa
AfricaThe world should hear the cries of Tigrayan people in Ethiopia
On Monday, U.S. President Joseph R. Biden Jr. spoke with Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali of Ethiopia and told him not to send troops in to the Tigray region to avoid further escalation…
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AfricaWHO recommends two new drugs to treat COVID-19
WHO has recommended two new drugs for COVID-19, providing yet more options for treating the disease. The extent to which these medicines will save lives depends on how widely available and…
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AfricaWHO’s leading doctor Mike Ryan explodes on Tigray: ‘This is an insult to our humanity’. ‘The situation has gotten worse’. ‘We have zero access’. ‘It’s very upsetting’
Dr. Mike Ryan, an Irish man who refers to himself as an international citizen, is the Executive Director of the World Health Organization's Health Emergencies Program in Geneva, Switzerland, who…
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AfricaAfrica CDC director confirms agency not providing humanitarian assistance in Tigray as conflict rages in northern Ethiopia
The Director of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Dr. John Nkengasong said on Thursday that the agency does not provide humanitarian assistance in the Tigray region of…
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Ethiopia attacks WHO chief Tedros following comments on ‘deteriorating’ humanitarian catastrophe in Tigray
Health Organization (WHO) Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to 'immediately recuse himself from all matters concerning Ethiopia', after the latter described the 'deteriorating' humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in Tigray.
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AfricaWHO chief raises alarm over ‘deteriorating’ humanitarian catastrophe in Tigray, says full blockade in place since July, people have ‘no food, no medicine, no cash, no telephone, it’s hell’
The World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus once again raised the alarm over the humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, warning that the…
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AfricaIn first phone call with Abiy, Biden was ‘very clear’ that ‘full humanitarian access’ should be restored into Tigray and everywhere else in Ethiopia, senior U.S. official says
In his first phone call with Ethiopia's Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed Ali, U.S. President Joseph R. Biden Jr. was 'very clear' that "full humanitarian access should be restored, unfettered to…
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AfricaBiden’s national security advisor discusses Ethiopia’s Tigray crisis with Turkey, as U.S. leader presses Nobel Peace Prize winning Abiy Ahmed to embrace peace not war
President Joseph R. Biden Jr.'s National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan spoke by phone on Monday with Ibrahim Kalin, Spokesperson and Chief Advisor to the President of Turkey, and both discussed…
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AfricaIMF Managing Director Names Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas as IMF Economic Counsellor and Head of Research Department
Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), announced today her intention to appoint Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas as the Fund’s Economic Counsellor and Director of the Research Department (RES).…
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AfricaBiden warns Abiy not to send troops into Tigray region of Ethiopia in ‘business-like, serious’ phone call
U.S. President Joseph R. Biden Jr. told Prime Minister of Ethiopia Abiy Ahmed Ali on Monday not to send his troops into the Tigray region to avoid further escalation of…
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