Malaria: two groundbreaking vaccines have been developed, but access and rollout are still big stumbling blocks: The approval of two malaria vaccines – the RTS,S/AS01 vaccine in 2021 and the R21/Matrix-MTM vaccine in 2023 – will help control, and eventually help eradicate, a disease that causes more than 600,000 deaths annually. Nearly 2 million children …
East African troops hope to bring peace in the DRC but there may be stumbling blocks: Kenyan troops fly the flags of the East African Community and Kenya in Goma, eastern DRC. Augustin Wamenya/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images The East African Community decided to deploy troops in one of its member states for the first …
South Africa in the news: Land-Seizure Plans in South Africa Hit Major Stumbling Block: Plans by South Africa’s ruling African National Congress to amend the constitution to make it easier to seize land without paying for it have gone awry, because it failed to pin down sufficient …: “South Africa” – BingNews Russia on Vienna …
South Africa in the news: Wayward Boy: Stumbling into exile on a wing — and a prayer from Dominee Du Toit: Despite my nervousness, going into exile over the Easter of April 1965 turned out to be remarkably easy. Less than a week after disappearing from Johannesburg, I was in Salisbury (Harare) in what was …
Stumbling block: Sydney pair charged over stolen Lego: A man and woman have been charged after officers raided a Sydney home in the middle of the night and seized nearly 50 boxes of Lego. : Weird News Dead goose falls from sky, knocks hunter unconscious: Robert Meilhammer of Dorchester County was hunting with three other …
Genocide negotiations between Germany and Namibia hit stumbling blocks: Esther Utjiua Muinjangue commemorates the victims of the German colonial genocide in Namibia. EPA/Stefanie Pilick Namibian-German negotiations about the genocide perpetrated in the former German colony South West Africa in 1904-1908 have just entered their third year. The start of the negotiations in late 2015 marked …
Why the ANC may be stumbling closer to its most serious split yet: Reuters South Africa’s governing African National Congress (ANC) enters its 2017 policy conference riven and weakened. The five-yearly national event is the precursor to the national elective conference where its policy proposals will be adopted formally. The party is operating under the …
Anonymous' Twitter war hits stumbling block – Yahoo News snippet curated by WP Robot as being relevant to Twitter. In classical masked fashion, Anonymous published a video this week that claimed 20,000 Twitter accounts affiliated with IS had been shut down thanks to its efforts and the efforts of those enthusiastic young men and women …