A Zimbabwean journalist based in Birmingham, United Kingdom, Selbin Kabote, has been selected to be a judge for the prestigious One World Media Awards this year.Selbin, who works for charity Migrant Voice as a Media Lab Project Worker, is one of four judges in the ‘Refugee Reporting’ category at the annual event. Established in 1998, […]
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World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has warned against easing the Covid-19 control measures too quickly, saying the pandemic accelerates fast but decelerates much more slowly. Tedros told a virtual news conference from Geneva, Switzerland, that control measures should be lifted slowly and not all at once. “While Covid-19 accelerates very fast, it […]
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OPINION Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu After every cataclysmic event, one tends to think that the world will never be the same. This time it is true that in certain ways the world must change. Global history is laden with such turning points almost all being painful. For years we have been warned that a pandemic could be […]
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The German Football League (DFL) held a meeting on Tuesday, setting a new minimum age of 16 for players in the Bundesliga and Bundesliga 2. The change will take effect from the 2020-21 season. No team could be happier than Borussia Dortmund to hear that because it paved the way for Youssoufa Moukoko, a German-Cameroonian […]
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China will step up assistance to Namibia and other African countries in combating the COVID-19 pandemic, Chinese President Xi Jinping told Namibian President Hage Geingob in a telephone conversation on Friday. Xi said China will continue to share its experience in COVID-19 prevention and control with African countries and enhance health cooperation, adding that the […]
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The World Bank has approved US$1.9 billion dollars for 25 countries. The largest amount of assistance was US$ 200 million for India, followed by US$ 200 million for Pakistan, US$ 129 million for Sri Lanka,US$100 million for Afghanistan and US$83 million for Ethiopia. World Bank President David Malpass told Associated Press news agency that the […]
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ZTN Reporter ZIMBABWE national soccer team captain Knowledge Musona will have an early off season break after a decision was made today to bring the Belgian Pro League to a premature end. Musona (29) is on loan at KAS Eupen from Anderlecht. In a statement the Pro League Board said continuing with the league in […]
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A new study published Tuesday by Science magazine suggests that the lockdown of Wuhan, capital of central China’s Hubei Province, combined with the Level 1 national emergency response, averted hundreds of thousands of COVID-19 cases in China by Feb. 19. The study, led by Tian Huaiyu of Beijing Normal University, focused on the development of […]
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The origin of the novel coronavirus has been widely discussed online since the outbreak. Conspiracy theories around it have also emerged endlessly. A previous scientific study suggests that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, has a natural origin. “Certainly some of the early cases were linked to the seafood market in Wuhan, but others, including […]
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Former Marseille president Pape Diouf has died aged 68 after contracting coronavirus, the club have announced. The Senegalese was president between 2005 and 2009 when Marseille finished second in Ligue 1 twice and reached two French Cup finals. They went on to win a first French league title in 18 years in 2010. “Pape will […]
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