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India extends LOC to Guinea
India extended Line of Credits(LOC) to Guinea on Thursday, 5th December 2019 during the visit of Guinea’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Guineans Abroad, Mamadi Toure to India from 2-5 December 2019. Minister of External Affairs, S.Jaishankar held bilateral discussions ..
Macky Sall re-elected as Senegal’s President
President of Senegal Macky Sall has won the re-election with 58.27% of votes cast. More than 50% votes to a candidate imply that there would be no second round voting under the election system of Senegal. Senegal Senegal lies on ..
Month: Current Affairs - March, 2019
New Ebola vaccine may be up to 100% effective: WHO
The World Health Organization (WHO) has expressed confidence that a prototype vaccine for Ebola called rVSV-ZEBOV may be 100% effective in protecting against the deadly virus. The vaccine was initially developed in Canada by public health authorities before being taken over ..
Month: Current Affairs - December, 2016
WHO declares Guinea Ebola free
World Health Organization (WHO), a UN health agency has declared Guinea Ebola-free after no new cases were reported. Now the country enters into 90-day period of heightened surveillance of WHO. In Guinea, the deadly disease had killed more than 2,500 ..
Month: Current Affairs - December, 2015
WHO declares Liberia Ebola-free
World Health Organization (WHO), a U.N. health agency has declared Liberia Ebola-free. WHO has hailed Liberia’s Ebola eradication efforts as an enormous development in the long crisis and monumental achievement as the virus has killed more than 4,716 people in ..
Month: Current Affairs - May, 2015
Peter Jan Graaff of Netherlands appointed as head of UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response
United Nations (UN) has nominated Peter Jan Graaff of the Netherlands as the new chief of UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER). He will replace Mauritanian diplomat Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed who was recently appointed as special UN envoy for ..