Kenya election: Provisional results show tight race amid low turnout

NAIROBI, Aug 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Official results have yet to be announced, but the two leading candidates are running neck and neck in results tallied by local media. Disappointingly, Tuesday’s election witnessed a low voter turnout compared with 2017. Preliminary results from Kenya’s presidential election have shown a very tight…

Mozambique plans wealth fund to manage gas revenues

MAPUTO, Aug 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Mozambique plans to set up a sovereign wealth fund to manage revenue from the exploitation of gas reserves in its restive north, the country’s President Filipe Nyusi said. Speaking in the capital Maputo, as he announced a series of measures to help the country’s struggling…

US: 99 pct of monkeypox cases occur in men – research

WASHINGTON, Aug 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — New data published in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and gathered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showed that 99 percent of monkeypox cases in the United States are in males. The report showed that 94 percent of those male infected…

Cuba’s worst ever fire brought under control after burning for 5 days at oil depot, officials say

MATANZAS (Cuba), Aug 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Firefighters finally overcame what officials described as the worst fire in Cuba’s history that over five days destroyed 40% of the Caribbean island’s main fuel storage facility and caused massive blackouts. Witnesses reported the raging flames that ravaged a four-tank segment of the Matanzas…

Two miners rescued in Dominican Republic after 10 days underground

      SANTO DOMINGO, Aug 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Two miners were rescued in the Dominican Republic, seemingly unharmed, after 10 days trapped underground and a massive operation, with support from Canada, to free them. The miners were finally reached on Tuesday morning through a newly-dug rescue tunnel, a whole 10 days…

UK: A million London children to be offered polio booster as samples found

LONDON, Aug 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Around one million children in London will be offered a polio booster vaccine after the virus was detected in sewage samples across the capital, health officials said. “Following the discovery of type 2 vaccine-derived poliovirus in sewage in north and east London,” a targetted booster does would be…

Up to 50 missing after migrant boat sinks off Greece

  ATHENS, Aug 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — An air and sea rescue operation was underway after around 50 people went missing when a migrant boat sank in the Aegean Sea, the Greek coastguard said.    The vessel foundered at dawn off the islands of Karpathos and Rhodes after setting sail on Tuesday from Antalya,…

Russia-Ukraine conflict: First Ukrainian wheat shipments expected next week – UN

ISTANBUL, Aug  11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The first shipments of wheat should start flowing from Ukrainian ports next week under a landmarked deal agreed with Russia and Turkiye, a top UN official said. The first 12 shipments that have left the three Black Sea ports designated by the deal were carrying…

Russia-Ukraine conflict: Two more grain ships leave Ukraine, bringing total to 12 under new deal

ISTANBUL, Aug 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Two more grain-carrying ships left Ukraine’s Chornomorsk port on Tuesday, Turkiye’s defence ministry said, as part of a deal to unblock Ukrainian sea exports, bringing the total to leave the country under a safe passage deal to 12. The Ocean Lion left for South Korea,…

Heatwaves: Germany’s river shipping is affected by low water level

BERLIN, Aug 9 (NNN-TELESUR) — Germany’s inland river shipping industry is badly affected as the country faces a reduction in water levels resulting from the continued high temperatures, combined as well with the lack of rainfall. “The water levels and discharges of the German federal waterways remain at a low…