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68-year-old Nigerian delivers twins in Lagos hospital

Segun - April 20, 2020

NIGERIA A 68-year-old Nigerian woman successfully delivered twins on her first pregnancy, the Lagos University Teaching hospital, LUTH, reported over...

Hungarian doctors separate Bangladeshi twins joined at head

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Hungarian doctors separate Bangladeshi twins joined at head

Skynewsafrica - August 2, 2019

BANGLADESHI Bangladeshi twins who were joined at the head were recovering Friday after Hungarian surgeons performed a marathon 30-hour...

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March 28, 2020

sky news africa “Wages are now useless because of inflation,” he said. “Everyone is crying.” Selling from cars is also prevalent in other parts of Africa. Joseph Chege used to be an electronics dealer on the outskirts of Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, but anti-COVID-19 restrictions forced him to close his business. Faced with payments for loans he had taken to expand his now-shut business, Chege says he had to come up with a quick alternative to meet his financial obligations. He realized that demand for food had remained the same but there was a shortfall in supply in Nairobi because of movement restrictions. He also realized that the farmers in his community were not able to sell their produce because the local market had been closed by a ban on crowded places. Chege went around farms and bought the best produce at the cheapest price and then drove to the populated neighborhoods in Nairobi, parked his car, and opened the trunk to display the fresh produce. “It did not take long and before lunch-time I was out of stock, so I drove back and got more produce,” he said. Chege says that the profit from selling vegetables and fruits is significantly less than what he used to make but he is grateful to be able to meet some of his financial obligations when many people are losing their livelihoods. Although Kenya has now lifted travel restrictions, Chege says the economic downturn will prevent him from returning to his electronics business for a while yet. In Zimbabwe, selling items from the back of car trunks to beat economic hardships is not completely new, but it was mainly limited to those selling second-hand clothes. Now, newly unemployed people clog roadsides and street corners in both rich and poor suburbs in Harare to sell from their cars. Many said the items for sale are smuggled from neighboring South Africa, which has closed its border posts with Zimbabwe as part of lockdown measures. Zimbabwe’s economy had already shifted from full-time, salaried jobs to self-employed trading due to a steady trend of de-industrialization over the past two decades, and the coronavirus has just worsened the situation, said some economists. “We have seen the closure of companies, the closure of industries. We have seen more and more people actually eking out a living in the informal sector,” said Prosper Chitambara, a Harare-based economist. For Marshall Chinyani, who abandoned work as a schoolteacher three years ago to focus on a small import business that closed due to the coronavirus, selling from his car is the new normal. “I am here because of the coronavirus pandemic that forced some of us to leave our jobs (and go) into the streets to sell these,” he said, standing next to his car packed with vegetables on the side of a busy road in Belgravia, a Harare suburb with many embassies, U.N agencies and international aid organizations. “We were never used to this,” he said. “But we were forced to leave our offices and our shops.”

Many Zimbabweans sell goods from their cars in hard times

July 15, 2020

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Kenya central bank holds main lending rate at 9.0 pct

January 28, 2019

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Seven people died and another was seriously injured in a fire which ripped through a building in a wealthy Paris neighbourhood on Monday night, the fire service said. The blaze in the French capital's trendy 16th arrondissement also left 27 people -- including three firefighters -- with minor injuries. "The toll could still increase because the fire is still in progress on the 7th and 8th floors" of the eight-storey block, fire service spokesman Captain Clement Cognon told AFP at the scene. Described by firefighters as a "scene of incredible violence", the blaze started at about 1:00 am (0000 GMT). Its cause is so far unknown. AFP / AFP Map locating a building blaze in Paris where seven people have died overnight Monday Some of those affected scrambled on to nearby roofs to escape the smoke and flames, and needed to be rescued by fire crews. With landmarks including the Trocadero overlooking the Eiffel Tower, Paris Saint-Germain's home stadium the Parc des Princes, the picturesque Bois de Bologne and an array of upmarket shops and restaurants, the area in the capital's southwest is popular with tourists. Captain Cognon added: "We had to carry out many rescues, including some people who had taken refuge on the roofs. Thirty people were evacuated on ladders." At approximately 5:00 am (0400 GMT), fire crews had finished evacuating the block on rue Erlanger but were still fighting the flames. Two adjacent buildings were also evacuated as a precaution and local officials were on site to help find housing for residents who could not go back to their homes. Around 200 firefighters were still at the scene in the early hours of Tuesday, battling the blaze and treating the injured. AFP / Geoffroy VAN DER HASSELT Around 200 firefighters were still at the scene in the early hours of Tuesday, battling the blaze and treating the injured Several streets of the chic neighbourhood were cordoned off by police and fire crews, and an AFP journalist said a strong smell of smoke was in the air. In late December, two women and two girls died from asphyxiation in a fire that broke out in a public housing block in a suburb northeast of Paris. And in January a gas explosion followed by a fire killed four people in the 9th arrondissement.

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Seven dead in Paris building blaze: fire service

Human rights abuses behind kidnapping, crimes in Nigeria - SFCG

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Human rights abuses behind kidnapping, crimes in Nigeria – SFCG

S. African court rules display of apartheid flag constitutes hate speech

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S. African court rules display of apartheid flag constitutes hate speech

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Bombs rattle Bangkok during ASEAN summit, wounding four