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Sports: Russ Cook runs the south-to-north length of Africa in 352 days

April 8, 2024 Vinayak Barot

New Delhi, April 8: Russ Cook, the English endurance athlete nicknamed “Hardest Geezer,” became the first person ever on Sunday to crisscross the African continent from south to north, covering a distance of 16,000 km in 350 days. The 27-year-old started this challenge, named “Project Africa,” on April 22, 2023, in South Africa, and concluded […]

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African nations leading the way on ‘food systems transformation’: UN

May 27, 2022 Vinayak Barot

New Delhi: António Guterres at New York, USA – while addressing the start of a high-level policy dialogue at UN Headquarters in New York, part of the Africa Dialogue Series 2022, convened to strengthen resilience in food supplies across the continent, at a time when decades of progress on hunger are being reversed. Guterres said […]

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Dozens of killed Deadly explosion in Western Ghana, 59 injured

January 21, 2022 Vinayak Barot

New Delhi: At least 17 people and over 59 were severely injured in a massive explosion in Ghana’s rural Western Region on Thursday. Dozens of people are feared dead after a truck carrying mining explosives collided with a motorcycle in western Ghana, sparking an explosion that has left hundreds of buildings destroyed. The accident happened […]

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Omicron Threat: India may supply Covid-19 vaccine doses to African Countries

December 1, 2021 Vinayak Barot

New Delhi: The Government of India may come forward to help the African countries by providing more covid-19 vaccine doses as new covid-19 variant ‘Omicron’ surges there. As countries tighten travel protocols once again, the central government is looking to export a significant portion of Covid-19 vaccines to Africa. According to the sources the government […]

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The Scientist who discovered Ebola virus, Warns for another disease to hit the world soon

January 4, 2021 Vinayak Barot

New Delhi: The scientist who had discovered many things about the deadliest Ebola virus warned for another virus ‘Disease X’. Scientist Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum is microbiologist and he was part of the research team that investigated the first known outbreak of Ebola virus disease in 1976. Tamfum said that “The ‘Disease X’ is hypothetical, but could […]