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dimanche 15 août 2021

Top Stories: Ethiopia’s office of the prime minister said on Tuesday that "all capable Ethiopians" should join the fight against Tigrayan forces. The statement came roughly six weeks after the government declared a unilateral ceasefire. Aid groups say COVID-19 has caused greater suffering, both psychologically and economically, to women than men, especially in developing countries like Kenya.  Lenny Ruvaga looks at one aid group helping women get through the pandemic in this report from Nairobi. Ifrah was born in Somalia and fled the outbreak of war in 2006 at the age of 17. Now she is an international campaigner against FGM and a High-Profile Supporter for the U.N. Refugee Agency, UNHCR. Clara Frenk has the story The mining industry has long been one of South Africa’s largest sectors, but women are still a minority in its workforce. Now, a group called Women in Mining South Africa is trying to change that through a mentorship program to help young women enter the field. For VOA, Linda Givetash reports from Johannesburg. A South African court on Tuesday again postponed a long-delayed corruption trial against former president Jacob Zuma to September 9 following his hospitalization last week. Zuma was expected to appear at the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Tuesday for a $2 billion arms deal corruption case that led to his sacking as South Africa's deputy president in 2005.Zuma, 79, is serving a 15-month sentence at Estcourt prison in his home province of KwaZulu-Natal after he failed to heed a court order to attend an inquiry in corruption during his time as president. He was moved to a hospital on Friday for medical observation. In Nigeria's northern Kano state, Janet Peter stirs a thick and frothy brown liquid inside a large cast iron pot, worrying all the while that religious police will come and chase her from the restaurant where she operates. Health authorities in Guinea have confirmed one death from Marburg virus, a highly infectious hemorrhagic fever similar to Ebola, the World Health Organization said on Monday. It marks the first time that the deadly disease has been identified in West Africa. There have been 12 major Marburg outbreaks since 1967, mostly in southern and eastern Africa. Guinea's new case was first identified last week, just two months after the country was declared free of Ebola following a brief flare-up earlier this year that killed 12 people. The World Health Organization is calling for urgent action to improve practices regarding the disposal of electronic waste. The W-H-O says those most severely affected by the impact of E-waste are women and children in low and middle-income countries. Humans are unequivocally to blame for global climate change – and massive cuts to greenhouse gas emissions are urgently required if the world is to avoid catastrophic warming, according to a report from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change published Monday.

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