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WHO urges vigilance to hold hard-won anti-virus gains

GENEVA, 12 May 2020 [Fik/News Sources]: The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday welcomed the slowing down of coronavirus, but urged vigilance to keep the hard-won gains that have come at a severe socio-economic cost. “The good news is that there has been a great deal of success in slowing the virus and ultimately saving lives,” said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in a video press conference from Geneva. However, he said, this had come at a cost, and the WHO recognized the serious socio-economic impact of the lockdown. “Therefore, to protect lives and livelihoods, a slow, steady, lifting of lockdowns is key to both stimulating economies, while also keeping a vigilant eye on the virus so that control measures can be quickly implemented if an upswing in cases is identified,” said

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COVID-19: Kenya closes border with Somalia, Tanzania

NAIROBI, 17 May 2020 [Fik/News Sources]: Kenya closed its borders with Somalia and Tanzania on Saturday because of increased cross-border infections of the coronavirus, President Uhuru Kenyatta said Saturday. Kenyatta said 43 people who recently crossed the border from neighboring Somalia and Tanzania were among diagnosed cases this week “Therefore, in accordance with the advice by the National Emergency Response Committee on Coronavirus, and the National Security Council, I am directing that there shall be cessation of movement of persons and any passenger ferrying automobiles and vehicles into and out of the territory of the Republic of Kenya through the Kenya-Somalia international border except for cargo vehicles, with effect from midnight today, Saturday 16th, May 2020.” He issued the same directive for Tanzania

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Daesh/ISIS claims responsibility for deadly mosque attack in Afghanistan

Kabul, 16 Oct 2021 [Fik/News Sources]: The Daesh/ISIS terror group claimed responsibility late Friday for a deadly mosque attack in Afghanistan that killed at least 47 people and wounded dozens in the southern province of Kandahar.  The attack on the Fatimiya mosque was carried out by two suicide bombers, according to a statement circulated by the terror group on social media. It came one week after a bombing, claimed by the local Daesh affiliate, killed 46 at a Shia mosque in the northern Afghanistan province of

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