CAIRO—Egypt’s best-known archaeologist on Saturday revealed further details on a Pharaonic city recently found in the southern province of Luxor. Zahi Hawass said that archaeologists found brick houses, artifacts, and tools from pharaonic times at the site of the 3,000-year-old lost city. It dates back to Amenhotep III of the 18th dynasty, whose reign is…
Explosions in 2 Somalia Cities Kill at Least 5
MOGADISHU, Somalia—A suicide bomber detonated his explosives outside a cafe in Somalia’s city of Baidoa on Saturday, killing at least four people and wounding more than six others, police said. The bomber was targeting the Bay region governor, Ali Wardhere, who was outside the Suez Cafeteria, officials reported. The governor escaped the explosion unharmed, according…
Anti-Parasitic Drug Can Be Used for COVID-19 in South Africa; WHO Says Use in Studies Only
South African doctors may now prescribe ivermectin for the treatment of COVID-19 without fear of reprisal or waiting for approval from the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAPHRA), according to a court order on April 6, as the World Health Organization (WHO) advised that the drug be used in a trial only. The court…
Gunmen Free More Than 1,800 Inmates in Attack on Nigerian Prison
YENAGOA, Nigeria—More than 1,800 prisoners are on the run in southeast Nigeria after escaping when heavily armed gunmen attacked their prison using explosives and rocket-propelled grenades, the authorities said. Nigerian police said it believed a banned separatist group, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), was behind the attack in the city of Owerri, but a…
CCP Groomed 6 African Presidents to Expand Its Unified Front
The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) decades of infiltration in Africa paid off on March 12 when it won support from Russia and African countries, such as Egypt and South Sudan, for its condemnation of Australia’s “human rights violations” in a statement to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva. Since the CCP came to power, its military…
Suez Canal Shipping Backlog Ends, Days After Giant Vessel Freed
CAIRO—All ships stranded by the grounding of the giant container ship Ever Given in the Suez Canal in March had passed through the canal by Saturday, ending the backlog that built up during the blockage, the canal authority said. The last 61 ships, out of 422 ships that were queuing when the vessel was dislodged…
Four Countries Added to England’s COVID-19 Travel Ban List
England has expanded its COVID-19 travel ban, adding four countries to its “red list” to prevent new variants of the CCP virus from entering the country. From 0300 GMT on Apr. 9, international visitors who have departed from or transited through the Philippines, Pakistan, Kenya, and Bangladesh in the previous 10 days will be refused…
Suez Canal Must Upgrade Quickly to Avoid Future Disruption: Shipping Sources
CAIRO—Egypt’s Suez Canal must move quickly to upgrade its technical infrastructure if it is to avoid future shipping disruption, shipping industry sources said, as the major trade route tries to bounce back from a costly six-day closure. International supply chains were thrown into disarray on March 23 when the 400-metre-long (430-yard) container ship Ever Given…
Pfizer COVID-19 Shot 91 Percent Effective in Updated Data, Protective Against South African Variant
Pfizer Inc and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine is around 91 percent effective at preventing the disease, they said on Thursday, citing updated trial data that included participants inoculated for up to six months. The shot was also 100 percent effective in preventing illness among trial participants in South Africa, where a new variant called B1351 is…
Database Reveals Secrets of China’s Loans to Developing Nations, Says Study
March 31, 2021
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DAKAR—The terms of China’s loan deals with developing countries are unusually secretive and require borrowers to prioritize repayment of Chinese state-owned banks ahead of other creditors, a study of a cache of such contracts showed on Wednesday. The dataset—compiled over three years by AidData, a U.S. research lab at the College of William & Mary—comprises…
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