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01.09.2022 / 23:35

One of world's purest pink diamonds is expected to sell for $21 million at auction

LONDON - A rare, dazzling pink diamond is expected to sell for an estimated $21 million when it goes up for auction in October, officials said. The 11.15-carat cushion-shaped stone, called the "Williamson Pink Star," was described by auction house Sotheby’s as "one of the world’s purest, most saturated pink diamonds." The diamond was named after two other notable pink diamonds, including the record-breaking CTF Pink Star, a 59.60-carat oval mixed-cut diamond, which sold in 2017 for $71.2 million. The Williamson Pink Star was also named in homage to the celebrated "Williamson" stone, a cut diamond of 23.60-carats given as a wedding present to Queen Elizabeth II in 1947. It was gifted to the queen by Canadian geologist and royalist, Dr.

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Digital payments to health workers boost retention, motivation, and impact

An immunization worker gets set up to receive her wages on her mobile wallet in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Credit: WHO

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Donors making a difference: Health priorities take centre stage at UNGA

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CDC warns of Marburg virus after deadly Africa outbreak

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is urging travelers to Guinea and Tanzania to be mindful of contracting the deadly Marburg virus.

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US sanctions Sri Lankan businessman for links with Al-Qaeda

COLOMBO (News 1st) – The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated two business associates of a sanctioned al-Qa’ida financial facilitator and external operations plotter. The two individuals designated today are Mohamad Irshad Mohamad Haris Nizar and Musab Turkmen, who conducted businesses activities to assist Ahmed Luqman Talib (Talib), who was previously designated by OFAC for facilitating the international movement of individuals and finances in furtherance of al-Qa’ida’s objectives. Australian authorities arrested Talib on March 25, 2021, and days later charged him with plotting incursions into foreign states for the purpose of engaging in hostile activities.“Treasury is taking this action to further disrupt a transnational al-Qa’ida financial facilitation and operational plotting network,” said Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Brian E.

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Donors making a difference: in the lives of children

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Donors making a difference: toward universal health coverage

The world has committed to making health for all a reality.

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Private jet to India : Where did it come from? – FSP raises concerns

COLOMBO (News 1st); Sri Lanka’s Frontline Socialists Party says that the private jet used by the Prime Minister to travel to India on pilgrimage recently has a flight history that is a cause for concern.“The T7 – JSG has a very interesting flight history,” said Pubudu Jagoda, the Academic Secretary of the FSP, and the flight path detailed by him is as follows.10th December 2021 : Arrives at the Katunayake Airport from India.10th December 2021 : Flies to Jomo Kenyatta International from Katunayake Airport.14th December 2021 : Travels to multiple locations in Kenya14th December 2021 : Flies to Bukoba Airport, Tanzania15th December 2021 : Flies to Kampala Airport (Entebbe International Airport) from Tanzania16th December 2021 : Arrives at

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Delhi accounts for maximum no. of Omicron cases; CM Arvind Kejriwal to issue Covid guidelines

COVID-19 cases reported in the city so far increased to 14,42,515

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Omicron cases in India: List of states that have reported new Covid-19 variant

Here's all you need to know about Omicron cases in India with state-wise data:

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Travelling to India? Check these new Covid-19 testing rules

RT PCR test if they are coming from the countries 'at risk' or have visited 'at risk' countries in the last 14 days. The link to the airport website would be provided on the Air Suvidha platform which would be displayed to passengers while filling up the self-declaration form, it mentioned.

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Delhi: Contact of Omicron patient tests positive for COVID-19

Delhi reported one Omicron case

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Omicron is here: These 5 states in India have reported new Covid variant cases

Omicron variant of COVID-19 on Sunday - nine persons in Rajasthan capital Jaipur, seven in Maharashtra's Pune district and a fully vaccinated man who arrived in Delhi from Tanzania.

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Mumbai: Tanzania returnee tests Covid-19 positive, suspected to be Omicron variant case

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Nobel Prize for Literature 2021 awarded to Abdulrazak Gurnah

STOCKHOLM - Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday for works that explore the legacies of imperialism on uprooted individuals.The Swedish Academy said the award was in recognition of his "uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents"Born in Zanzibar in 1948 and based in England, Gurnah is a professor at the University of Kent.

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India’s struggle to track new Covid variants could worsen crisis

Super Mutant DebunkedMutations occur when the virus replicates, and India’s unprecedented surge is driving new cases to global records, even as richer economies like the U.S. and Israel re-open quickly.

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'World's most mutated' Covid variant sparks fears pandemic could go on even longer

coronavirus mutations have identified what could be the biggest threat yet.The “variant of interest” emerged in Tanzania and was found in passengers from there in Angola.It is feared it is the world's most mutated variant.The multinational team mobilising to document the new variant say in a pre-print research paper that the coronavirus variant carries 34 mutations, reports TheSun.That raises the spectre of new vaccine or antibody-resistant strains emerging in the near future.

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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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Jihadi rebels hit town in north Mozambique near gas project

JOHANNESBURG – Jihadi rebels are fighting to capture Palma, a strategic town in northern Mozambique where fighting continued Thursday after launching a three-pronged assault on the center a day earlier.

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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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Samia Suluhu Hassan becomes Tanzania's first woman president

DAR ES SALAAM – Samia Suluhu Hassan, 61, made history Friday when she was sworn in as Tanzania’s first female president at the government offices of State House in Dar es Salaam, the country's largest city.

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Death of Tanzania's Magufuli draws sorrow but ire from some

NAKURU – News of the death of Tanzania's President John Magufuli drew mixed reactions; sorrow from many but bitterness from a critic who said he suffered during the president's rule which he said shrank the country's democratic space.

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Tanzania's opposition leader says president died of Covid-19

Tanzania's main opposition leader Tundu Lissu has claimed that President John Magufuli had died from the coronavirus.

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Tanzania's President John Magufuli has died at 61

NAKURU – President John Magufuli of Tanzania, a prominent COVID-19 skeptic in Africa whose populist rule often cast his East African country in a harsh international spotlight, has died. He was 61 years old.

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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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Thirteen further countries added to 'high-risk' list

Another thirteen countries have been added to the Government's list of 'high-risk' category.

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WHO calls for other steps to ease COVAX vaccine access

At a press briefing today, the World Health Organization's (WHO) top official said money isn't the only obstacle to getting vaccines to lower income countries through the COVAX program, designed to offer equitable access to tamp down the COVID-19 activity across the globe.

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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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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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People arriving from 20 states face 14-day mandatory self-quarantine

An additional 18 states have been added to the Government's coronavirus 'high-risk' list of countries.

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3 new cases of COVID-19 in managed isolation

There are 3 new cases of COVID-19 in managed isolation to report in New Zealand since our media statement yesterday.

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This African country says it doesn't need COVID-19 vaccines, for now

COVID-19 vaccines, even as doses finally begin to arrive on the continent that’s seeing a deadly resurgence in cases.The health minister of the East African nation, Thaddee Ndikumana, told reporters on Thursday evening that prevention is more important, and “since more than 95% of patients are recovering, we estimate that the vaccines are not yet necessary."The minister spoke while announcing new measures against the pandemic. The country closed its land and water borders last month.

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Talented artist from Tanzania rediscovers passion for painting after being laid off due to COVID-19

Kiyungi Fundikira was born and raised in Africa. He loved to paint and sketch as a child, lost interest in his teens then moved to Canada in 2000.

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Bucs fans are taking their love of the team to new heights

One Tampa Bay Buccaneers fan is taking his love for the team to new heights.

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Amid Covid-19, govt extends ban on international flights till Feb-end

pic.twitter.com/6dUwhvaWr5Scheduled international passenger services have been suspended in India since March 23 due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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Visitors from two African countries added to Scots travel ban amid threat of new covid strain

travel ban on people coming into Scotland from two African countries will come into force at 4am tomorrow. The Scottish Government has said the UK ban on visitors from the southern Africa region remains in place and as of tomorrow morning will be extended to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Tanzania.

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Married 68 years, B.C. couple dies of COVID-19 in separate hospitals hours apart

COVID-19 just hours apart on Sunday.Alkarim Remtulla’s father Hassanali, 90, and mother Shahsultan, 90, were in separate hospitals when they passed away.The couple, who had emigrated to Canada 20 years ago from Tanzania, had been married for 68 years. Hospitalized B.C.

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UN chief warns `vaccine nationalism' is moving at full speed

TANZANIA – Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Wednesday that “vaccine nationalism” is moving “at full speed,” leaving poor people around the globe watching preparations for inoculations against the coronavirus in some rich nations and wondering if and when they will be vaccinated.The U.N. chief reiterated his call for vaccines to be treated as “a global public good,” available to everyone, everywhere on the planet, especially in Africa.

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Nobel laureate says pandemic raising violence, trafficking

TANZANIA – Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nadia Murad said the coronavirus pandemic has increased trafficking of women and gender-based violence, leaving the health and safety of women “on the line.”The 27-year-old activist, who was forced into sexual slavery by Islamic State fighters in Iraq, said curfews, lockdowns and travel restrictions imposed by governments to slow the spread of the virus “have had unintended consequences on women worldwide.”“Rather than reducing human trafficking and gender-based violence, the pandemic has increased the risk of exploitation and brutality against those most vulnerable,” she said.

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Nobel UN agency warns 2021 is going to be worse than 2020

TANZANIA – The head of the World Food Program says the Nobel Peace Prize has given the U.N. agency a spotlight and megaphone to warn world leaders that next year is going to be worse than this year, and without billions of dollars “we are going to have famines of biblical proportions in 2021.”David Beasley said in an interview with The Associated Press that the Norwegian Nobel Committee was looking at the work the agency does every day in conflicts, disasters and refugee camps, often putting staffers’ lives at risk to feed millions of hungry people -- but also to send “a message to the world that it’s getting worse out there ...

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Big study supports cheap combo pill to lower heart risks

small study last year in Alabama suggested benefit. The new study tested Polycap, a pill from India-based Cadila Pharmaceuticals Ltd.

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EU pledges $51 million as UN seeks $1 billion in Sahel aid

TANZANIA – The European Union on Tuesday will pledge 43.6 million euros ($51.5 million) to help meet emergency aid and food needs to three countries in Africa’s Sahel region, as the United Nations sought to raise $1 billion to tackle a humanitarian crisis there.The offer came as part of a virtual ministerial meeting -- hosted by Denmark, Germany, the European Union and the United Nations -- aimed at spotlighting one of the world’s fastest growing humanitarian crises in a region plagued by increasing conflict, weak governance, and a lack of development.“The EU’s pledge consists of 23.6 million euro in funding for humanitarian actions in Burkino Faso, Mali and Niger, and 20 million euro in development funding to address the food crisis

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UN hopes meeting will raise $1 billion for key Sahel nations

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WFP chief seeks million from donors, billionaires for food

TANZANIA – Even before COVID-19 became an issue, World Food Program chief David Beasley was warning global leaders that the world would face the worst humanitarian crisis since World War II in 2020.He said that was because of wars in Syria, Yemen and elsewhere, locust swarms in Africa, frequent natural disasters, and economic crises including in Lebanon, Congo, Sudan and Ethiopia. Then came COVID-19 which quickly became a pandemic that has swept the world, escalating the need for food — and U.N.

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Rwandan genocide suspect seeks transfer to The Hague

THE HAGUE – The defense lawyer of an 87-year-old Rwandan genocide suspect arrested in France has appealed to an international court not to send him to Tanzania to face trial, but instead to transfer him to the Netherlands for health reasons, according to a written request filed Monday.Félicien Kabuga, one of the most wanted fugitives in Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, was arrested outside Paris in May after 25 years on the run. He is accused of genocide and crimes against humanity for equipping militias that killed more than 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus who tried to protect them.Kabuga has denied involvement in the massacre.A court Paris last week approved Kabuga's extradition to a special international court in Arusha, Tanzania.

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25 years after UN women's meeting, equality remains distant

TANZANIA – Twenty-five years ago, the world’s nations came together to make sure that half of Earth's population gained the rights, power and status of the other half. It hasn't happened yet.

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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