Diasporas

Kenya has suspended all inbound and transit passenger flights from the United Arabs Emirates, for seven days. The suspension is effective from Monday this week. Kenya Civil Aviation Authority (KCAA), says this was done to reciprocate a ban on Kenyan passenger flights to UAE. The ban will not affect cargo …

US President Joe Biden in phone conversation with Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed expressed concern over deaths of civilians in this country in the Horn of Africa. This follows reports that more than 50 displaced people were killed in an air strike in north-west Tigray on Friday. A White House …

The outgoing U.S. ambassador to Turkey, David Satterfield will replace Jeffrey Feltman as the U.S special envoy to the Horn of Africa, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement. Feltman, a veteran U.S. diplomat, assumed the post in April and quickly found himself in the middle of two …

U.S. Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa Jeffrey Feltman will step down from his post this month after more than nine months in the job, Reuters reports. David Satterfield, the outgoing U.S. ambassador to Turkey, will take up the role, the report say. Feltman, a veteran U.S. diplomat, assumed …

Torrential rains in the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia, killed at least 18 and injured some 286 others, where 58 municipalities were flooded and 35,000 displaced, since November, local authorities said on Sunday. According to the Civil Protection of Bahia (Sudec), in addition to these 18 deaths, two people remain …

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett announced on Tuesday that citizens over 60 and medical staff would be entitled to a fourth dose of the Covid-19 vaccine, after consulting with a panel of experts. “The citizens of Israel were the first in the world to receive the third dose of the …

The head of the United States Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases(NIAID), Anthony Fauci, warned on Sunday that the Omicron variant of COVID-19 was “rampant” across the world and called for vaccination. “This virus is extraordinary, all over the world the number of cases is doubling every two or three …

The United States has passed the milestone of 800,000 deaths linked to Covid-19, the New York Times reported on Wednesday. The US newspaper, which has a database to follow the epidemic on the national territory, reports that more than 50 million cases have been reported in the country since the …

British authorities have said they have removed all African countries from the red list, which impose travel bans between those states and the UK after a new variant of the coronavirus is discovered in southern Africa. The restrictions were first imposed last month in order to slow the spread of …

A delegation of Russian scientists has arrived in South Africa to study the new variant of the coronavirus, Omicron, which was detected last month in this southern African country. The Russian Ministry for Foreign Affairs has tweeted a video of the team’s arrival, adding that the plane was also carrying …