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‘She touched many hearts’: Family mourns after woman drowns while livestreaming in Ontario pool

In a GoFundMe post, Enock Nyabuto said his eldest sister Hellen Wendy, was “enjoying an afternoon swim when she tragically drowned” on Aug. 18.Nyabuto said his sister lived in Toronto, but was working a temporary job in Collingwood.The Ontario Provincial Police said emergency crews responded to a report of a drowning at around 5:44 p.m.OPP said a woman was pulled from the water and despite life-saving measures, she was pronounced deceased. Police released her identity as 23-year-old Hellen Nyabuto from North York.Investigators said the incident remains under investigation but is not suspicious in nature.

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Donors making a difference: in the greater Horn of Africa health crisis

Cornered by drought, families are leaving their homes by the thousands in search of food, water and pasture. Above: women at a camp for internally displaced people near the town of Gode, Ethiopia. ©UNICEF/Pouget

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Blinken arrives in Kenya to boost US response to regional crises

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Making clean cooking affordable and accessible during COVID-19: ‘Pay-as-you-go’ smart meters promote health equity, Nairobi

Affordability of clean cooking solutions like liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) stoves is one of the biggest barriers to reducing exposure to household air pollution in resource-poor households. New research suggests that “pay-as-you-go” smart meter technology can help address the affordability challenges of clean cooking by enabling incremental fuel payments for households in place of paying the full upfront cost of a LPG cylinder. A recent study assessing pay-as-you-go LPG cooking patterns showed that in spite of economic and other hardships, the amount of LPG consumed by households remained relatively stable, illustrating how smart meter technology may have maintained a healthier home environment for at-risk populations during the lockdown.

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Japan, Kenya announce assistance to support India's fight against Covid-19

NEW DELHI: Japan and Kenya on Friday announced their assistance to India’s ongoing fight against a fierce second wave of covid-19 infections.Tokyo said it was extending an emergency grant of approximately $ 14.8 million to India in response to the current surge of covid-19 infections while Nairobi stated it was donating 12 tonnes of food products as part of its assistance to India to fight the covid-19 pandemic.“Through the assistance announced today (Friday), the additional 1,000 ventilators and 2,000 oxygen concentrators will be provided to India through UNOPS as a part of the assistance of up to $ 50 million announced on 5 May, the Japanese embassy said in a statement.

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Ethiopia again delays national election amid deadly tensions

NAIROBI – Ethiopia has again delayed its national election after some opposition parties said they wouldn’t take part and as conflict in the country’s Tigray region means no vote is being held there.

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Alarm grows in Africa as it watches India’s COVID-19 crisis

NAIROBI – Africa is “watching with total disbelief” as India struggles with a devastating resurgence in COVID-19 cases, the continent’s top public health official said Thursday, as African officials worry about delays in vaccine deliveries caused by India’s crisis.

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Africa CDC urges India to lift COVID vaccine export limits

NAIROBI – Africa's top health official said Thursday he wants to believe that India will lift export restrictions on COVID-19 vaccines as soon as possible, warning that “India is not an island” while some African nations still have seen no shots at all.

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African Union drops plans to buy Covid vaccines from India's Serum Institute

NAIROBI : The African Union has dropped plans to secure COVID-19 vaccines from the Serum Institute of India for African nations and is exploring options with Johnson & Johnson, the head of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday.The institute will still supply the AstraZeneca vaccine to Africa through the COVAX vaccine-sharing facility, John Nkengasong told reporters, but the African Union would seek additional supplies from Johnson & Johnson.The statement comes the day after European and British medicine regulators said they had found possible links between AstraZeneca's vaccine and reports of very rare cases of brain blood clots, but they reaffirmed its importance in protecting people.Nkengasong said the

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Tanzania's new president changes policy on COVID-19, media

NAIROBI – Tanzania's new president appears to be taking a new, scientific approach to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Kenya stops private importation of COVID-19 vaccines

NAIROBI – Kenya has ordered an immediate suspension on private importations of vaccines citing fears that it may lead to counterfeit inoculations getting into the country.

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Obama family matriarch has died in a Kenyan hospital at 99

NAIROBI – Sarah Obama, the matriarch of former U.S. President Barack Obama's Kenyan family has died, relatives and officials confirmed Monday but did not disclose the cause of death. She was at least 99 years old.

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Five die in stampede to view body of Tanzania's Magufuli

NAIROBI – Five people, including four children, died in a suspected stampede during a public viewing of the body of former Tanzanian President John Magufuli over the weekend, as regional leaders joined Tanzanians to pay their last respects to the controversial leader.

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Kenya offers free Covid jabs to UN, diplomats: Report

Covid-19 jabs for its staff in Kenya even though the government there hasn't finished vaccinating its own vulnerable citizens.The offer, confirmed by UN and diplomatic sources, comes as Kenya battles a severe third wave of the virus and last week recorded its highest single-day death toll since the pandemic began.The UN Office at Nairobi (UNON), which has approximately 20,000 staff and dependants, said it had accepted the national government's offer of free AstraZeneca jabs but stressed only those most at risk would be eligible."It is not a wholesale vaccination of all UN staff members and their dependents," UNON spokesman Newton Kanhema told AFP on Sunday.Registration opened Sunday for UN staff wanting the jab, with vaccinations to

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Vice President urges calm as Tanzania's leader still unseen

NAIROBI – As Tanzania's president has not been seen in public for more than two weeks, the East African country's vice president on Monday sought to reassure the nation, saying it was “normal” for human beings to suffer colds and other illnesses.

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Mauritius shuts down after more COVID-19 cases

NAIROBI : Mauritius has gone into lockdown and suspended flights in and out of the island for two weeks following the discovery of 15 more cases of COVID-19, the Mauritius state tourism agency said on Wednesday.The Indian Ocean island of 1.4 million people has had 641 confirmed coronavirus cases with 10 deaths, according to the latest World Health Organization (WHO) data.All residents and visitors have been asked to stay at home or in their hotels until March 25, the agency said in a statement."We have decided to implement the nationwide lockdown to make sure that there is no risk of it spreading further," said Nilen Vencadasmy, chairman of the Mauritius Tourism Promotion Authority."Mauritius is looking forward to welcoming visitors back

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EXPLAINER: Why Ethiopia's deadly Tigray crisis is growing

NAIROBI – Civilians massacred. Journalists arrested. People starving to death. Ethiopia’s government is under growing pressure to allow the world to see firsthand what has occurred in its embattled Tigray region as its Nobel Peace Prize-winning prime minister rejects “partisan interventions.”

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COVID-19 vaccine deliveries to African nations pick up speed

NAIROBI – More African countries received the long-awaited first deliveries of COVID-19 vaccines on Wednesday, with Kenya and Rwanda benefiting from the global COVAX initiative that aims to ensure doses for the world’s low-and middle-income nations.

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Amnesty report describes Axum massacre in Ethiopia's Tigray

NAIROBI – Soldiers from Eritrea systematically killed “many hundreds” of people, the large majority men, in a massacre in late November in the Ethiopian city of Axum, Amnesty International says in a new report, echoing the findings of an Associated Press story last week and citing more than 40 witnesses.

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Hunger-striking Ethiopia politicians 'deteriorating' in jail

NAIROBI – Lawyers representing jailed Ethiopian opposition politicians say they are concerned for the lives of their clients, whose hunger strike has gone on for nearly a month and drawn international attention as they protest their treatment by the government.

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Tanzania's president admits country has COVID-19 problem

NAIROBI – Tanzania’s president is finally acknowledging that his country has a coronavirus problem after claiming for months that the disease had been defeated by prayer.

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Eritrea calls AP story on Tigray massacre 'outrageous lies'

NAIROBI – Eritrea’s government is rejecting as “outrageous lies” a story by The Associated Press in which witnesses describe a massacre of several hundred people carried out by Eritrean soldiers in Ethiopia’s Tigray region.

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Tanzania's COVID-denying leader urges prayer as cases climb

NAIROBI – Tanzania’s COVID-denying president is calling on citizens for three days of prayer to defeat unnamed “respiratory diseases” amid warnings that the country is seeing a deadly resurgence in infections.

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UN report: South Sudan's violence 'worse' than in civil war

NAIROBI – The scale of violence in South Sudan is “a lot worse” than during the country’s five-year civil war, a United Nations commission announced Friday, accusing senior officials of supporting armed groups that at times have included tens of thousands of fighters.

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Africa reaches 100,000 known COVID-19 deaths as danger grows

NAIROBI – Africa has surpassed 100,000 confirmed deaths from COVID-19 as the continent praised for its early response to the pandemic now struggles with a dangerous resurgence and medical oxygen often runs desperately short.

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'Horrible': Witnesses recall massacre in Ethiopian holy city

NAIROBI – Bodies with gunshot wounds lay in the streets for days in Ethiopia’s holiest city. At night, residents listened in horror as hyenas fed on the corpses of people they knew. But they were forbidden from burying their dead by the invading Eritrean soldiers.

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'We'll be left without families': Fear in Ethiopia's Tigray

NAIROBI – As soldiers from Eritrea looted the border town of Rama in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, one home became a dispensary for frightened residents seeking medicine in the midst of war. In return, they shared details of killings in nearby communities. An American nurse visiting her family listened in shock.

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'Emaciated' survivors hint at worse in Ethiopia's Tigray

NAIROBI – “Many, many severe cases of malnutrition” are being reported in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region, Red Cross officials said Wednesday, and “emaciated” people in displacement camps are the ones who managed to escape rural areas still inaccessible in the fourth month of fighting.

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UN: Situation in Ethiopia's Tigray now 'extremely alarming'

NAIROBI – Life for civilians in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region has become “extremely alarming” as hunger grows and fighting remains an obstacle to reaching millions of people with aid, the United Nations says in a new report.

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UN: Ethiopia may not have control of a large part of Tigray

NAIROBI – The United Nations humanitarian chief has privately told the U.N. Security Council that Ethiopia may not have control of up to 40% of the territory in its embattled Tigray region and does not have full command of forces from neighboring Eritrea operating there.

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Tigray opposition parties assert 50,000-plus civilian deaths

NAIROBI – A trio of opposition parties in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region estimates that more than 50,000 civilians have been killed in the three-month conflict, and they urge the international community to intervene before a “humanitarian disaster of biblical proportion will become a gruesome reality.”

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Fugitive Tigray leader reportedly speaks out after months

NAIROBI – The fugitive leader of Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region has reportedly made his first public comments in three months, urging the international community to investigate alleged “genocide” and other abuses by forces including those from neighboring Eritrea.

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US 'directly' presses Eritrea to withdraw forces from Tigray

NAIROBI – The United States says it has directly “pressed senior levels” of Eritrea’s government to immediately withdraw its troops from neighboring Ethiopia, where witnesses have described them looting and hunting down civilians in the embattled Tigray region.

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Africa secures another 400 million COVID-19 vaccine doses

NAIROBI – Another 400 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been secured for the African continent through the Serum Institute of India, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday.

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US says Eritrean forces should leave Tigray immediately

NAIROBI – The United States said all soldiers from Eritrea should leave Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region “immediately.”

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Witnesses: Eritrean soldiers loot, kill in Ethiopia's Tigray

NAIROBI – The Eritrean soldiers' pockets clinked with stolen jewelry. Warily, Zenebu watched them try on dresses and other clothing looted from homes in a town in Ethiopia's embattled Tigray region.

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'Extreme urgent need': Starvation haunts Ethiopia's Tigray

NAIROBI – From “emaciated” refugees to crops burned on the brink of harvest, starvation threatens the survivors of more than two months of fighting in Ethiopia’s Tigray region.The first humanitarian workers to arrive after pleading with the Ethiopian government for access describe weakened children dying from diarrhea after drinking from rivers. Shops were looted or depleted weeks ago.

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Ugandan president reported leading in early election results

NAIROBI – Uganda's electoral commission said Friday that President Yoweri Museveni led in Thursday's election with results in from 29% of polling stations, receiving 63% of ballots while top opposition candidate Bobi Wine had 28%. Final results are expected Saturday afternoon.Wine, a popular singer-turned-lawmaker half the president's age, alleges that the vote in the East African country was rigged.

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Arrested Zimbabwe journalist in prison isolation over COVID

NAIROBI – A prominent Zimbabwean journalist charged with communicating falsehoods has been sent to prison isolation after it emerged that he was likely exposed to people with COVID-19 prior to his arrest.Zimbabwe police on Friday arrested Hopewell Chin’ono for the third time in five months. The latest arrest comes after he tweeted that police had beaten an infant to death while enforcing COVID-19 lockdown rules this week.

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Report: Hospitals in Ethiopia's Tigray struck by artillery

NAIROBI – Many of the hospitals in Ethiopia’s conflict-hit Tigray region, outside its capital, have been struck by artillery during the two months of fighting, according to the first humanitarian assessment of the devastation as aid begins to arrive with desperately needed supplies.The scale of the damage has been largely unknown while Ethiopian forces pursue and clash with those of the now-fugitive Tigray regional leaders, with the involvement of troops from neighboring Eritrea. Transportation and communications links were severed.

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UN fears 'massive' COVID transmission in Ethiopia's Tigray

NAIROBI – The United Nations fears “massive community transmission” of COVID-19 in Ethiopia’s troubled Tigray region, fueled by displacement and the collapse of health services, as humanitarian workers finally begin to access the region two months after fighting began. Hospitals have been looted, even destroyed.A new U.N.

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Ethiopian army official confirms Eritrean troops in Tigray

NAIROBI – A senior Ethiopian military official has confirmed the presence of security forces from neighboring Eritrea in the deadly conflict in his country’s northern Tigray region, contradicting the Ethiopian government’s denials.The United States last month said it believed Eritrean troops were active in Ethiopia, a “grave development,” as people fleeing the Tigray region alleged that Eritrean forces were involved in the fighting, targeting and abducting Eritrean refugees from camps near the Eritrean border as well as scores of Tigray residents.

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Report: Ethiopian forces killed scores in June-July unrest

NAIROBI – A new report says Ethiopian security forces killed more than 75 people and injured nearly 200 during deadly unrest in June and July after the killing of a popular singer. More than 30 others were beheaded, tortured or dragged in the streets by attackers amid ethnic slurs.

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After Britain and South Africa, another new coronavirus variant found in Nigeria

NAIROBI : Another new variant of the novel coronavirus seems to have emerged in Nigeria, the head of Africa's disease control body said on Thursday, cautioning more investigation was needed.The news comes after Britain and South Africa both reported new variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that appear to be more contagious, leading to new travel restrictions and turmoil in markets."It's a separate lineage from the UK and the South African lineages," John Nkengasong, director of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) told an online news conference from Addis Ababa."The one we are seeing in Nigeria, and this is based on very limited data yet, has the 501 mutation," Nkengasong added, referring to the variant termed 501.V2

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Africa CDC: New virus variant appears to emerge in Nigeria

NAIROBI – Another new variant of the coronavirus appears to have emerged in Nigeria, Africa’s top public health official said Thursday, but further investigation is needed. “It’s a separate lineage from the UK and South Africa,” the head of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, John Nkengasong, told reporters.

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Aid group says staffer killed in Ethiopia's Tigray conflict

NAIROBI – An international aid group said Friday that a staff member has been killed in Ethiopia’s conflict in its Tigray region.The International Rescue Committee said “communication with the area is extremely difficult and we are still working to gather and confirm the details surrounding the events that led to the death of our colleague” in the Hitsats refugee camp in Shire.The Tigray region remains largely sealed off from the outside world as worried humanitarian organizations warn of growing hunger, attacks on refugees and dwindling medicine and other supplies more than a month after fighting erupted between Ethiopia’s government and the now-fugitive Tigray one.Ethiopia’s government has made clear it intends to manage the process of

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African health official blasts 'terrible' vaccine inequality

NAIROBI – “It will be extremely terrible to see” rich countries receiving COVID-19 vaccines while African countries go without, especially as a new surge in cases begins on the continent of 1.3 billion people, Africa’s top public health official said Thursday.As the world watches mass vaccinations begin Britain, Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director John Nkengasong has warned that Africa might not see vaccines until after the second quarter of 2021.Nkengasong called it a “moral issue” and urged the United Nations to summon a special session to discuss the ethical, fair distribution of vaccines to avoid “this North-South distrust in respect to vaccines, which is a common good.” COVID-19 will not be defeated in the West

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Ethiopia rejects independent probes into Tigray conflict

NAIROBI – Ethiopia’s government is rejecting calls for independent investigations into the deadly conflict in its Tigray region, saying it “doesn’t need a baby-sitter.”The declaration comes amid international calls for more transparency into the month-long fighting between Ethiopian forces and those of the fugitive Tigray regional government that is thought to have killed thousands, including civilians.

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0