Nicaragua expects to export lobster to European Union countries

MANAGUA, Jan 24 (NNN-Prensa Latina) –Nicaragua plans to export lobster to European Union countries, after the regional bloc authorized it, and the Central American nation passed verification of quality standards of fishery products. According to the Minister of Finance and Public Credit, Ivan Acosta, representatives of that community reviewed the…

Covid-19: Clinical trials of Cuba’s Mambisa vaccine candidate are advancing

HAVANA, Jan 24 (NNN-Prensa Latina) — The first clinical studies of the application of Cuba’s first nasal vaccine candidate, named Mambisa, to patients convalescing from Covid-19 and as a booster are ongoing. The drug was created by the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB) and demonstrates safety and immunogenicity…

China to open its market to more African products – Chinese State official

DAKAR (Senegal)/BEIJING, Jan 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) — China will explore new approaches in a bid to expand imports from Africa, the Director-General of the Department of African Affairs in the country’s Ministry Foreign Affairs Wu Peng said. Wu says this was part of major takeaways from the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation…

Kenya, Uganda reach deal to accelerate truck movement to ease snarl-up in Malaba

Kenya’s Transport CS James Macharia (2nd right) and his Ugandan counterpart Katumba Wamala (3rd left) on Saturday at the Malaba border. NAIROBI, Jan 24 (NNN-KNA) — Kenya and Ugandan authorities have resolved to suspend truck scanning in Malaba-Kenya in as a measure to clear a 40-kilometre traffic snarl-up stretching from…

5-year-old Nigerian girl murdered by school proprietor: Deputy UN chief calls for justice

Hanifa Abubakar UNITED NATIONS, Jan 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Amina Mohmmed, the deputy United Nations Secretary-General has reacted to the gruesome murder of a five-year-old school girl by her teacher.The top diplomat has joined the calls for justice to be served saying she was outraged and deeply saddened by the death…

Mexico: Journalist murdered in Tijuana, second in less than a week

TIJUANA (Mexico), Jan 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A journalist was killed in Tijuana Sunday, the local prosecutor said, the second media worker murdered in less than a week in the Mexican city on the US border. Lourdes Maldonado Lopez was “attacked with a firearm while she was in a vehicle”, said…

Afghanistan: Taliban, Western officials meet for Monday talks in Oslo

   OSLO, Jan 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Taliban and Western diplomats meet in Oslo on Monday for talks on Afghanistan’s humanitarian crisis and human rights, especially those of women whose freedoms have been curbed by the hardline Islamists.  In their first visit to Europe since returning to power in August, the…

Italy’s parliament starts voting for president in wide-open race

ROME, Jan 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Italy’s parliament will begin voting on Monday for a new head of state, with Prime Minister Mario Draghi among the most prominent candidates in a wide-open contest which will be closely monitored by financial markets. There are concerns among politicians in Italy that the result…

Peru races to save birds threatened by oil spill

LIMA, Jan 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A Lima zoo is racing to save dozens of seabirds, including protected penguins, left covered in oil after 6,000 barrels of crude spilled off Peru’s coast due to waves from a volcanic eruption in the South Pacific. More than 40 birds, including Humboldt penguins —…

Covid-19: Thousands march in Washington against vaccine mandates

WASHINGTON, Jan 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Waving signs denouncing President Joe Biden and calling for “freedom,” several thousand people demonstrated in Washington Sunday against what some described as the “tyranny” of Covid-19 vaccine mandates in the United States. Speaker after speaker — including notorious anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who compared…