Monkeypox: Portugal confirms first female case

LISBON, July 9 (NNN-Xinhua) — The Portuguese Directorate-General for Health confirmed the first monkeypox case in a woman in Portugal. The southern European country had reported 473 monkeypox cases, all in men, before the latest case were detected. The majority of the cases were reported in the Lisbon and Tagus…

Nigeria: Residents groan as fuel scarcity paralyses transportation in Lagos

Fuel scarcity hits Lagos LAGOS, July 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Most commuting Nigerians in Lagos were left stranded on Friday at various pickup points as fuel scarcity continues to bite harder.The fuel scarcity had lingered for a week leaving commuters struggling to board the few vehicles available for commuting, thereby negatively…

Kenya wants share of maize imports from Africa raised

The deal will help boost maize supply locally NAIROBI, July 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Kenya is seeking to limit Zambia, Tanzania and Uganda from exporting maize to other countries at its expense in fresh efforts to curb the surge in maize flour prices, ease inflation and squeeze household budgets.Agriculture Cabinet Secretary…

Ghana: Over 27,000 public sector workers threatens strike over Cost-of-Living Allowance

Public Sector workers want government to pay COLA ACCRA, July 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Ghana’s public sector workers have threatened to embark on an industrial action if their plea to the government for the 20% Cost of living Allowance is not heeded.According to them, the harsh economic conditions in the country…

Ghana: IMF bailout will ‘repair our severely-hit’ economy; ‘this, too, shall pass’ – Pres Akufo-Addo

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo ACCRA, July 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Ghana President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says all countries around the world are working to return themselves to a state of normalcy following the devastating impact of the pandemic of COVID-19, whose effects have been exacerbated by the Russian invasion…

UK PM Boris Johnson faces calls to go now

   LONDON, July  9 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Britain’s Labour party threatened a bid to force Prime Minister Boris Johnson out of Downing Street immediately, following his resignation in the face of a cabinet uprising. Johnson quit as leader of the ruling Conservative party on Thursday, after a frenzy of nearly 60 resignations in…

Oldest European human fossil possibly found in Spain – 1.4 million years old

MADRID, July 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A jawbone fragment discovered in northern Spain last month could be the oldest known fossil of a human ancestor found to date in Europe, Spanish paleontologists said. The researchers said the fossil found at an archaeological site on June 30 in northern Spain’s Atapuerca mountain…

Russia-Ukraine conflict: Ukraine pleads for more weapons as defiant Russia warns West

Ukrainian soldiers ride atop a tank through a street in Pokrovsk, Donetsk region, in eastern Ukraine KYIV, July 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Ukraine urged its allies to send more weapons as its forces dug in to slow Russia’s military advance through the eastern Donbas region, while a belligerent Moscow warned Western…

Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon hits record for first half of 2022

MANAUS (Brazil), July 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest reached a record high for the first six months of the year, as an area five times the size of New York City was destroyed, preliminary government data showed. From January to June, 3,988 square km were cleared in the region,…

Argentine minister off on European tour to buy new submarine

BUENOS AIRES, July 8 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — Argentina’s Defense Minister Jorge Taiana and a team of top-ranking Navy officers are on a trip to Europe to hold talks with several shipyards for the purchase of a new submarine to replace the ARA San Juan, it was reported.  Five years after the…