ShareBy Aluta News June 15, 2021 The World Bank (WB) and the African Union (AU)’s COVID-19 Africa Vaccine Acquisition Task Team (AVATT) have announced a decision to work together to deploy vaccines for 400 million Africans. The pledge came after the president of the World Bank, David Malpass, met withContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News June 10, 2021 U.S. President Joe Biden is expected to tell British Prime Minister Boris Johnson not to let the row over Northern Ireland’s Brexit arrangements put the Good Friday Agreement at risk when the pair meet on Thursday. In the U.S. president’s first overseas visit, aidesContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News June 9, 2021 Joe Biden is scheduled to arrive in Europe on Wednesday in his first foreign trip as U.S. president. The president and First Lady Jill Biden are scheduled to meet U.S. soldiers in the English county of Suffolk to kick off their first foreign tripContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News June 9, 2021 The latest Forsa poll on voting intentions for Germany’s parliamentary elections suggested the centre-right coalition of the Christian Democrats and Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) further extended its lead over the Greens. The poll, which was commissioned by RTL and ntv and published on Wednesday, hadContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News June 8, 2021 Thailand accelerated vaccine rollout as it started a mass vaccination programme last Monday amid efforts to contain its worst Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak so far and ensure the country’s wider reopening to vaccinated foreign visitors. Monday was the first day of the programme, the countryContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News June 8, 2021 More than 800 criminals were detained and nearly 40 tonnes of drugs were seized in one of the largest international operations ever, Europol said on Tuesday. Europol which disclosed this in a statement, said, “a series of large-scale law enforcement actions were executed overContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News June 8, 2021 Facebook in Germany on Tuesday promised to take steps to crack down on groups that break the platform’s rules. This including limiting their reach across the site and placing restrictions on individuals and communities. The announcement is seen as offering reassurance that nefarious activityContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News June 8, 2021 Germany’s industrial production logged an unexpected decline in April, data from Destatis revealed on Tuesday. Industrial output dropped by one per cent on a monthly basis in April, reversing a revised 2.2-per-cent rise in March. Economists had forecast an increase of 0.5 per cent.Continue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News June 4, 2021 Facebook has suspended former U.S. President Donald Trump, on Facebook and Instagram platforms for two years effective Jan. 7. Facebook, in a statement by Nick Clegg, Vice-President of Global Affairs, cited “severe violation” after Capitol Hill riots of January 6 and that Trump’s accountsContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News June 4, 2021 Baptista S H Gebu, a Ghanaian researcher, has strongly made a case for the African continent, arguing: it is about time “Africans tell their own stories in the African way.” Baptista, the C.E.O of Ghana-based FoReal HR Services Company, made the argument while speakingContinue Reading
