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mardi 13 juillet 2021

Top Stories: South Africa's top court is holding a virtual hearing Monday as former president Jacob Zuma challenges a 15-month prison term. Zuma’s chances of winning the challenge are minimal, according to legal experts. Ethiopia election board says Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's Prosperity Party won the most seats in Ethiopia's parliamentary election on Saturday -- a victory that assures him another term in office. On the streets of Addis Ababa there was little reaction to the results, some people say they are most concerned about the war in Tigray and would like Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and his party to make peace a priority. Rwanda has deployed part of a one-thousand strong force to Mozambique over the weekend, to help the country battle an escalating Islamic State-linked insurgency that is threatening the nation's stability. The soldiers and police officers departed by air from the Rwandan capital Kigali on Saturday. The head of Haiti’s national police, Leon Charles, says authorities have arrested a Haitian man who flew to the country on a private jet in June and worked with the masterminds and alleged killers of President Jovenel Moïse. Sunday marked the United Nations World Population Day. Its experts say there is no perfect population number and that human innovation will continue to manage and outpace the growth in the number of humans living on the planet. U.S. President Joe Biden announced Thursday the U.S. mission in Afghanistan ends August 31, but concerns remain about the plight of Afghan civilians, particularly women, as the Taliban continues to gain ground against Afghan forces. Vaccine hesitancy in the U.S. is proving hard to crack, with roughly one-third of Americans not vaccinated against COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. The partisan divide over the vaccine continues to hamper efforts to defeat the virus. The Biden administration is sending 3 million doses of the Moderna coronavirus vaccine to Indonesia as the archipelago deals with a surge in COVID-19 cases. The Indonesian government said it will use the doses as booster shots for health workers who have already been fully vaccinated with the Chinese Sinovac vaccine. Olympic officials have barred spectators from the games amid spiking coronavirus cases in Japan. Organizers have long said they will push forward with the Olympics, but experts say the highly transmissible delta variant should give them pause. Refugee athletes are going all out in their preparations for the delayed Tokyo Olympics, which is set to take place from July 23 to August 8th. The Tokyo 2020 Games will mark the second Summer Olympics that features a team of refugee athletes competing under the Refugee Olympic Team banner. Thomas Bach, President of International Olympic Committee, has announced a team of twenty-nine athletes from around the world, across twelve sports, that will travel to Japan. That is ten more than participated in the 2016 Rio Olympics. This year, the Head of the Mission of the Refugee Olympic Team, Tegla Loroupe, the former Kenyan marathon world record-holder, is training four refugee athletes in Ngong Hills, located southwest of Nairobi before making the journey to Tokyo to pursue their dreams at the games. North India’s Kullu district is famed for its ancient tradition of spinning hand-woven stoles and shawls with designs that have been passed down for generations. Now artisans, many of them women, are learning to make another traditional Indian garment called the sari, under a program sponsored by the local government and private sector that aims to reach new markets and enhance income opportunities for women. Anjana Pasricha has a report.

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