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March 7, 2021 With a routine immunisation coverage of 88 percent, AJK is one region that has remained polio free for the last two decades Visiting Muzaffarabad after 16 years was quite an experience. The last I saw this place was when an earthquake of 7.6 magnitude shook the entire region on October 8, 2005. After nearly 16 years the city seemed stronger. Its social indicators show that too. One of those is its literacy rate of 67 percent among its women compared to the national average of 51 ...

Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 06 March 2021: Sierra Leone has always enjoyed the paradoxical label of being one of the richest poor countries in Africa.  Our country is regarded as rich and well known for its vast endowment in minerals –  diamonds, rutile, bauxite, gold, iron ore, limonite, platinum, chromite, coltan, tantalite, columbite and zircon, as well as promising petroleum potential. With our wonderful climate and large swathes of arable land, we used to boast about prod...

VIETNAM NEWS HEADLINES MARCH 4 Chia sẻ | FaceBookTwitter Email Copy Link Copy link bài viết thành công  04/03/2021    08:24 GMT+7 HCM City: early start proposed for over VND4.8 trillion traffic project Traffic congestion on Cong Hoa road The Ho Chi Minh City management board for traffic works construction and investment has urged early completion of paperwork for construction on a ...

Navy helps Papuan children instil reading habit through mobile library 3rd March 2021 A navys mobile library service. (Foto Istimewa Komando Armada III) Sorong, W Papua (ANTARA) - Personnel of the Indonesian Navys Third Fleet Command (Koarmada) have helped nurture the habit of reading among school-age children in villages of frontier, outermost, and remote regions in West Papua through a mobile library service. One of the villages availing this mobile library service is Katapop ...

African Development Bank provides $320 000 in grant funding to mainstream gender in Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) digital financial operations The grant will be disbursed through the Africa Digital Financial Inclusion Facility, a blended finance vehicle, supported by the Bank ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast, March 3, 2021/APO Group/ -- The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) has awarded a grant of $320, 535 to the West African Monetary Agency to mainstre...

13 Shares In Mexico City, COVID-19 has spread in line with existing patterns of spatial segregation and inequalities. While the poorest neighbourhoods have been the hardest hit, many of the wealthiest have seen very few cases, writes  Máximo Ernesto Jaramillo Molina (INDESIG and Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity). In January, Reuters reported that Mexico had surpassed India in confirmed deaths from COVID-19, giving it the world’s third-highest death toll. In Mexi...

The project, to be executed over a three-year period, will potentially affect 350 million people in all 15 ECOWAS nations.

Chads main opposition candidate, Saleh Kebzabo, on Monday announced he was withdrawing from the countrys upcoming presidential elections, accusing veteran leader Idriss Deby Itno of using force to intimidate rivals.

Vietnam will run for the United Nations Human Rights Council for the 2023-2025 term to spur human rights in the international arena.

The recently held Agricultural Fair at the Central Agricultural Institute in Bong County was by all accounts no mean achievement showcasing just a little perhaps of the country’s potential to produce enough food to feed itself. According to the Global Hunger Liberia’s score of 34.9. on a score range of 0 to 50, “indicates the country’s hunger levels are serious and are on the brink of becoming alarming”. The Index ranks 112 out of 117 countries on the 2019 Global Hunger...