Yearly Archives: 2024

Africa has almost 4,000 new mpox cases in a week, but the wait for vaccines continues

Muhamad Yehia ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Africa is seeing a rapid increase in mpox cases with nearly 4,000 reported in the past week, the continent’s public health body said Tuesday as it repeated a plea for long-awaited vaccines whose arrival this week in the most affected country, Congo, has been delayed. Eighty-one …

Read More »

Hundreds march to mark 35 years of Pride Johannesburg in South Africa

Muhamad Yehia JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Hundreds of people marched Saturday in South Africa to mark 35 years of Pride Johannesburg, an annual event that has been critical in advocating equal rights for the LGBTQ+ community. The march in the Sandton district of Johannesburg, was a colorful spectacle but also an …

Read More »

Microsoft fires employees who organized vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza

Microsoft is against the Palestinian and supporting strongly the Israeli army Muhamad Yehia & sahar ragab Microsoft has fired two employees who organized an unauthorized vigil at the company’s headquarters for Palestinians killed in Gaza during Israel’s war with Hamas. The two employees told The Associated Press they were fired …

Read More »

Iran faces tough choices in deciding how to respond to Israeli strikes

Muhamad Yehia How the Islamic Republic chooses to respond to the unusually public Israeli aerial assault on its homeland could determine whether the region spirals further toward all-out war or holds steady at an already devastating and destabilizing level of violence. In the coldly calculating realm of Middle East geopolitics, a strike …

Read More »

International court prosecutor who charged Netanyahu faces sexual misconduct accusation

Muhamad Yehia & sahar ragab THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — As the International Criminal Court’s top prosecutor sought war crimes charges this year against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over actions in Gaza, he was engulfed in a very different personal crisis playing out behind the scenes. Karim Khan faced …

Read More »

Five things to know about Israel’s attack on Iran

Muhamad Yehia & sahar ragab JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel delivered its long-expected response to Iranian missile attacks early Saturday by carrying out a series of airstrikes against the Islamic Republic. Here’s what to know Multiple targets were struck Under the cover of darkness early Saturday, Israel struck multiple sites in different parts of Iran. Explosions …

Read More »

Rwanda’s Marburg outbreak is under control, Africa’s health chief says

Muhamad Yehia KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — An outbreak in Rwanda of the Ebola-like Marburg fever is under control and travel bans targeting the East African country are unnecessary, the head of Africa’s top public health agency said Thursday. Rwanda declared the outbreak on Sept. 27 and has so far reported that 13 people …

Read More »

Whitney Houston’s epic 1994 performance in South Africa will hit theaters as a concert film

Muhamad Yehia LOS ANGELES (AP) — Whitney Houston ‘s epic concert in South Africa staged after President Nelson Mandela’s landmark election will be hitting theater screens this fall. Houston’s performance in 1994 has been turned into a fully-remastered theatrical release called “The Concert for a New South Africa (Durban),” according to a …

Read More »

Biden is making his long-awaited visit to Africa in October. He’ll stop in Germany, then Angola

Muhamad Yehia & sahar ragab WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will make his long-awaited visit to Africa when he travels to Germany and Angola in mid-October, the White House announced Tuesday. Biden had promised during a summit of African leaders he hosted in Washington in late 2022 to visit Africa the following year. His …

Read More »

How a traveling ‘health train’ has become an essential source of free care in South Africa

Muhamad Yehia JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Thethiwe Mahlangu woke early on a chilly morning and walked through her busy South African township, where minibuses hooted to pick up commuters and smoke from sidewalk breakfast stalls hung in the air. Her eyes had been troubling her. But instead of going to her …

Read More »