October 2021

The people of Africa give the thumbs up to PowerChina

What did the Chinese engineering and construction firm do to earn such praise? BEIJING, Oct. 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — A news report from CRI Online: The ceremony for the completion of Masindi barracks hospital, constructed and donated to Uganda by PowerChina, was held on April 16, 2021. In addition, two other projects, DiiCunyii Hospital and […]

Government-Backed Cooperation | GAC MOTOR as Public Transport Vehicles in Nigeria

GUANGZHOU, China, Oct. 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — After a successful recent meeting between Guangdong Governor and Lagos state Governer Mr. Babajid Sanwo-Olu, multiple forms of cooperation have been agreed. On October 11, 750 GAC MOTOR GS3s and 250 GA4s were shipped from Qingdao, China to Lagos, Nigeria, to be used by the Lagos State Government […]

Uganda Police Investigate Bus Explosion That Killed 1 Person

KAMPALA, UGANDA — Ugandan police are investigating an explosion on a long-distance bus that killed one person Monday, the second fatal blast in less than 48 hours in the East African country.The bus was traveling from the capital, Kampala, to the weste…

Picasso Artworks in Las Vegas Fetch More than $100 Million

Eleven Picasso paintings and other works that helped turn Las Vegas into an unlikely destination for art were sold at auction on Saturday for more than $100 million.The Sotheby’s auction was held at the Bellagio hotel in Las Vegas, where the works had …

Brave New World: Atlanta Beats LA 4-2, Heads to World Series

Led by an unlikely hero, the Atlanta Braves are heading back to a place that used to be so familiar to them.The World Series.Eddie Rosario capped a remarkable National League Championship Series with a three-run homer, sending the Braves to the biggest…

African Effort to Replicate mRna Vaccine Targets Disparities

In a pair of Cape Town warehouses converted into a maze of airlocked sterile rooms, young scientists are assembling and calibrating the equipment needed to reverse engineer a coronavirus vaccine that has yet to reach South Africa and most of the world’…

Report: Global Vaccine Collaboration is ‘Largely Failed’

A Financial Times report says COVAX, the global collaboration established to ensure that poor countries have access to the COVID-19 vaccine, has “largely failed.”“Wealthy countries have received over 16 times more COVID-19 vaccines per person than poor…

New US Justice Department Initiative to Combat ‘Redlining’

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Friday new measures to fight discriminatory lending practices.The Justice Department’s new Combating Redlining Initiative will redirect federal resources to investigating fair lending concerns, according …

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