Tanzania launches programme to honour founding President Julius Nyerere

Founding President of Tanzania, Julius NyerereFounding President of Tanzania, Julius Nyerere DODOMA, Feb 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The government of Tanzania launched a programme dedicated to marking 100 years of the East African nation’s founding President Julius Nyerere.The program called “Mwalimu Nyerere@100” will be coordinated by the Ministry of Natural Resources…

Madagascar on high alert as it prepares for Cyclone Batsirai to hit the Indian Ocean island

A man reinforces the roof of a house with stones and sacks of sand a day before Cyclone Batsirai is expected to hit Madagascar ANTANANARIVO, Feb 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Madagascar has put six of its regions on high alert as tropical Cyclone Batsirai is forecast to hit the Indian Ocean…

Russia wins Chinese backing in showdown over Ukraine

    MOSCOW, Feb 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Russia won China’s backing in its showdown with the West over Ukraine, as Beijing agreed with Moscow that the US-led NATO military alliance should not admit new members.    The demand for NATO to stop expanding came after a meeting between Russian President Vladimir…

Covid-19: Spain to drop obligatory use of masks outdoors

MADRID, Feb 4 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Spain will end the mandatory use of face masks outdoors on Feb 8, a minister said Friday, ending a measure re-imposed in late December to tackle a surge in Omicron cases. The measure will be approved at Tuesday’s cabinet meeting, Health Minister Carolina Darias told…

Road accident kills 18 in northeast Nigeria

KANO (Nigeria), Feb 4 (NNN-AGENCIESZ0 — Eighteen people were killed when a car collided head-on with a passenger bus in northeast Nigeria, a road safety official said Friday. The crash happened late Thursday along a highway in Yobe State outside the commercial city of Potiskum, said Hussaini Haruna, a spokesman…

50,833 Costa Ricans residing abroad to vote in Feb 6 elections

SAN JOSE, Feb 4 (NNN-TELESUR) –The Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) announced that 50,833 Costa Ricans residing abroad will cast their votes for Feb 6 general elections in 80 polling stations opened in 42 countries. “Besides revitalizing our democracy, the voting abroad contributes to strengthening our national identity,” Foreign Affairs Minister Solano…

Argentine navy rescues stranded Russian scientific vessel in Antarctica

BUENOS AIRES, Feb 4 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — An Argentine Navy vessel from the Antarctic Combined Patrol shared with Chile, and currently on duty, helped to rescue the Russian scientific vessel “Professor Logachev”, which was stranded and with no self-propulsion at Lasserre Bay, next to the Polish Antarctic Station Arctowski in King…

Ecuadorian authorities speak of “major disaster” following oil spill last week

QUITO, Feb 4 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — An oil spill in Ecuador in late January has been spreading over the past few days throughout the Yasuní area reaching unforeseen proportions, it was reported Wednesday. After a spill of 6,300 barrels of crude in the Amazon due to a break in an oil…

Argentina’s dependency on US needs to stop, President Fernández tells Putin

MOSCOW, Feb 4 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — President Alberto Fernández Thursday told his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Moscow that “Argentina has to stop having such a great dependency on the IMF and the United States.” Fernández made those remarks as rivalry between Putin and US President Joseph Biden is on the…

US: Pres Joe Biden appoints Ghanaian doctor Edjah Nduom to lead fight against cancer

Dr. Edjah Nduom shakes the hand of President Joe Biden WASHINGTON, Feb 4 (NNN-AGENCIES) — US President Joe Biden has appointed the son of businessman and politician in Ghana, Paa Kwesi Nduom, to an enviable job.Dr. Edjah Nduom will lead the fight against cancer in a “Cancer Moonshot Program,” a…