South Africa ranked seventh in the world, third in Africa among countries with most organised crime
The index reveals that South Africa grapples with more than one form of organised crime. These include human, arms, organ and drug trafficking, child labour, labour exploitation, domestic servitude and child brides. These forms of organised crime have created thriving criminal markets that are supported by the influence of criminal actors – responsible for years of state capture – and criminal networks that are highly interconnected.
Carbon credits: Kenya gears up for direct air capture push in ‘Great Carbon Valley’
Kenya is the world’s seventh-largest producer of geothermal energy. Geothermal and other renewable energy sources account for around 90 per cent of grid electricity in the country, meaning that DAC machines can operate without themselves generating substantial emissions.
‘I am deeply disturbed by continuing Big Pharma, GAVI, WHO attacks on African people with unnecessary, dangerous and expensive vaccines’
About 8,000 women die per year from cervical cancer in Nigeria, Muhammad Ali Pate, the coordinating minister of Health & Social Welfare, said. The higher rates are largely attributed to low screening coverage for cervical cancer and limited treatment options in the region, although actual numbers vary widely from country to country.
Vaccination or cull? Doctors question Bill Gates’ plan to vaccinate 86m girls in Africa and India against cervical cancer
Gavi said Nigeria’s initiative would kick off with a five-day mass vaccination drive in schools and communities in 16 of Nigeria’s 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory. Phase 2 of the campaign will launch in the rest of the country in May 2024.
Obamacare call centre staff allowed only six minutes in cloakroom strike over steep healthcare costs
Last month, Senator Bernie Sanders sent a letter to Maximus CEO Bruce Caswell criticising the company for the allegations of union busting and for paying a median salary of $39,000 despite making $311 million in profits and spending $96 million in stock buybacks and $6.3 million in CEO compensation in 2022. He called on the company to improve its wages and working conditions.
Environmentalists strike historical agreet to compensate ecological loss and damage
Developed countries had long pushed back against financing to help countries recover from the destructive impacts of climate change, and the setting up of a loss and damage fund was only agreed upon in principle at last year’s COP27. Negotiators have been wrangling since then to shape that agreement into the basis of a working fund.
Judge to rapper: Haiti police have no informers and citizens prefer to collaborate with gangs for economic benefits
Today, the police have no informers. Due to poverty, many people prefer to collaborate with gangs to gain economic benefits… Sometimes, gang leaders distribute a few bags of stolen rice or money in the neighbourhoods. These people inform them of any police action.
Haiti imbroglio: Today, we’ve a country that doesn’t exist, living in Port-au-Prince is like living in prison
More than 200,000 people have been displaced by recent violence, 44 per cent of the population faces acute food insecurity, more than 2,400 people were killed by gang violence between January and mid-August alone, while countless women have been raped amid the growing impunity.
How top US officials coerced virologists to label Covid link to Wuhan lab a ‘conspiracy theory’
A week later, a February 26, 2020, commentary in Emerging Microbes & Infections repeated claims that lab-leak theory was a conspiracy theory. The paper was written by virologists – including Linda Saif, of Ohio State University – working behind the scenes with Baric and Shi Zhengli, who conducted research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
US top officials with ties to Wuhan Institute still fighting to discredit Covid link to Chinese lab
A report by the US House of Representatives Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic released in July found that Fauci and other key scientists and government officials used the paper as a means to suppress the Covid-19 lab-leak theory.
