Kenya floods kill 194, people evacuated from risk areas near dams

Floods and landslides have been concentrated in western Kenya NAIROBI, May 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Floods and landslides in Kenya have killed nearly 200 people, displaced 100,000 and strained critical infrastructure, with unprecedentedly high water levels at two dams forcing the evacuation of villagers at risk, officials said. The heavy rain,…

Covid-19: UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson indicates lockdown could be eased on Monday as death toll passes 30,000

LONDON, May 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson indicated that lockdown restrictions could be lifted on Monday“if we possibly can” as he returned to Parliament for the first timesince his recovery from coronavirus. The Prime Minister will set out plans for easing the lockdown in a speech on Sunday, with some measures possibly being introduced…

Covid-19: Sweden nears ‘horrifying’ 3,000 deaths from coronavirus

STOCKHOLM, May 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Swedish officials said the country, which has taken a softer approach to curbing the spread of the new coronavirus, was nearing 3,000 deaths from COVID-19. The country’s Public Health Agency reported that a total of 23,918cases had been confirmed and 2,941 deaths had been recorded,…

Covid-19: Latest global developments

PARIS, May 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Here are some of the latest developments in the coronavirus crisis: At least 257,687 people have died of the novel coronavirus since theepidemic surfaced in China late last year, according to official sources. There have been more than 3,675,869 officially recorded cases spanning 195 countries…

Covid-19: US services sector ends decade of growth, contracts in April – survey

WASHINGTON, May 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The coronavirus pandemic slammed the US service sector in April, sending it contracting for the first time in nearly 11 years, according to an industry survey. The drop in the Institute for Supply Management’s (ISM) non-manufacturing index — to 41.8 percent from 52.5 percent in…

Burundi vote campaigns marred by clashes

BUJUMBURA, May 6 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Burundi’s Attorney-General Sylvestre Nyandwi has urged politicians not to incite violence following several clashes, some involving machetes, between governing party supporters and those backing the opposition. There have been attacks in various parts of the country ahead of presidential and parliamentary elections due to be…

Sudan appoints first US ambassador in decades

The US shut its embassy in Khartoum between 1996 and 2002 KHARTOUM, May 6 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Veteran diplomat Noureldin Sati has been appointed Sudan’s ambassador to the US. “The approval comes as part of normalising US and Sudanese diplomatic relations after being at the level of chargé d’affaires for over…

Covid-19: Indian scientists work on 30 vaccines in different states of development

A person gets injected with a coronavirus vaccine NEW DELHI, May 6 (NNN-Xinhua) — A group of medical researchers and scientists that interacted with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday is learnt to have told him that “over 30 Indian vaccines were in different stages of Corona vaccine development”, with…

Several injured as fire breaks out at UAE residential tower

Videos on social media showed burning debris falling from a tower engulfed in flames SHARJAH, May 6 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Firefighters have brought under control a fire that broke out at a residential tower in Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Tuesday night, Sharjah’s government media office said. Seven…

ICC prosecutor deplores non-execution of arrest warrants for Libyan fugitives

UNITED NATIONS, May 6 (NNN-Xinhua) — The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Fatou Bensouda, on Tuesday deplored the non-execution of arrest warrants for Libyan fugitives wanted by the court. In her briefing to the Security Council, Bensouda called out Egypt and Gen. Khalifa Haftar, commander-in-chief of the…