XUZHOU, China, Aug. 14, 2020 /PR Newswire/ — Leading Chinese construction machinery manufacturer XCMG (SZ:000425) is expected to deliver the first order totaling 60 million yuan (US$8.6 million) placed during its third global livestreaming sales event to Middle East region this weekend, the sets of construction machinery equipment includes mobile cranes and a crane model customized […]
Rwanda is turning to mathematics to compensate for shortages of supplies needed to test citizens for the coronavirus. Researchers are using an algorithm when testing samples from groups of people, and then each person in a group if a test comes back positive for COVID-19. Leon Mutesa, a professor of human genetics and member of Rwanda government’s COVID-19 task force
A senior World Health Organization official is calling for the equitable distribution of a future COVID-19 vaccine in Africa, warning that the virus will continue to spread if some countries are left behind. WHO Regional Director for Africa Matshidiso Moeti sees worrying signs that nations in Africa may be among those last in the queue of low-income countries to receive
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is facing a growing Ebola outbreak in its northwest Equateur province in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) says. At his COVID-19 news briefing in Geneva on Thursday, WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the outbreak is a “worrying” development, with 86 cases confirmed in the province. He
PÉKIN, 12 août 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Le 10 août s’est tenue une journée portes ouvertes visant à présenter les opérations, les mesures de prévention et de contrôle de la pandémie de COVID-19 et la reprise du travail sur le projet d’énergie éolienne De Aar, qui est le plus grand projet d’énergie éolienne en Afrique du […]
The U.N. refugee agency says last month’s ethnic violence in Sudan’s Western Darfur region has driven thousands of refugees, some for the second time, to neighboring Chad for safety. Land disputes in Western Darfur’s Masteri town reportedly killed at least 61 people and injured more than 88. The July 25 attacks are blamed on armed nomads who targeted the African farming communities,