05/05/2021
Calling on the government of Sierra Leone to immediately release Mr Michael Mansaray from illegal detention.
On the 28th of April, 2021, identified police personnels dressed in civilian clothing violently and illegally arrested Mr Michael Mansaray in Bo City, the southern region of Sierra Leone.
PRESIDENT BIO : HIS SUPPORTERS ARRESTED A MAN FOR CRITICIZING HIM AND HANDED HIM TO THE POLICE
According to the information intimated to us by our sources, the SLPP government of President Bio decided to send police officers dressed in civilian clothes to arrest Mr Mansaray because of his allegiance to the All People’s Congress (APC) opposition party.
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The UK is keen to have FTAs with 80 percent of its current trading partners as part of its post-Brexit strategy, with its sights also set on joining the Trans-Pacific partnership (CPTPP).
Clarke told
Morning Report that Minister for Trade and Export Growth Damien O Connor and the UK s Secretary of State for International Trade spoke of wanting to make progress as fast as we can . Actually to have got as far as we have after just four rounds is actually pretty good going, she said, adding that the next round of talks were scheduled for June and July.
India-UK ‘early market access’ package to be implemented with no further negotiations
May 05, 2021
Vaccine co-operation to continue, says UK High Commissioner to India
The India-UK ‘Early Market Access’ package for sectors such as medical devices, fruits, shrimps and nursing agreed to this week at the Summit meeting will be implemented by the two sides without further negotiations while the full-fledged bilateral Free Trade Agreement (FTA) negotiations could take several months to begin, the UK High Commissioner to India Alexander Ellis has said.
On the vaccine co-operation between the two countries, Ellis said that the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine manufactured by the Serum Institute of India was a success but there will be a need to continue the co-operation in the future. “We will need to produce new vaccines as new strains emerge. Vaccines are also being administered through different ways such as through the nose. India is an essential country for us to work with,”
Kagwe Explains Intrigues Behind Uhuru Firing KEMSA Board
1 May 2021 - 8:47 am
President Uhuru Kenyatta (right) with Health CS Mutahi Kagwe (left) during the biometric registration of the Universal Healthcare Coverage Programme (UHC) in Mombasa County on Saturday, October 30, 2020
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Kagwe, while appearing virtually before the Senate Health Committee on Friday, April 30, refuted reports alleging that the head of state was coerced into gazetting the changes by the United States government.
Uhuru overhauled KEMSA s board after holding a virtual meeting with the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Blinken was reported to have raised concerns over the agency s reputation and corruption allegations.
Red-Listing Pakistan is Not Meant for Punishment: UK Envoy
The government was not happy with the United Kingdom’s (UK) decision to red-list Pakistan in its travel advisory. When the decision first came on April 3, Federal Minister for Planning, Asad Umar, who also heads the National Command and Operation Center (NCOC), took to Twitter to question the move, asking if it was based on science or foreign policy.
Even some Muslim parliamentarians in the UK questioned their government’s decision, insisting that it was discriminatory and not data-driven.
The criticism was stemmed from the fact that other countries, including India (which was later placed on the red list) and some other European countries, where the COVID situation was much worse than Pakistan, were not put on the red list.