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Floods in Niger cause human and material damage

Published on: August 23, 2024
12:12

Niamey, Aug 23 (Prensa Latina) The floods of the current rainy season in Niger have already caused 217 deaths and some 200 injured, the country's authorities reported on Friday.

DRC health authorities show concern due to Mpox upsurge

Published on: August 23, 2024
10:32

Kinshasa, Aug 23 (Prensa Latina) Health authorities of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) showed concern about the rapid upsurge of monkeypox (Mpox) cases reported in this capital on Friday.

Dominican institutions urge better care for children

Published on: August 22, 2024
16:59

Santo Domingo, Aug 22 (Prensa Latina) The Cabinet for Children and Adolescents (GANA) and the National Council for Children and Adolescents (CONANI) urged Thursday a better safeguard por children in the Dominican Republic, in view of the wave of attacks on minors that is plaguing the country.

DRC’s authorities arrest officials involved in shipwreck

Published on: August 22, 2024
16:25

Kinshasa, Aug 22 (Prensa Latina) Officials allegedly liable for the sinking of a boat on the Lukeni River, in the province of Maï-Ndombe, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), are under provisional arrest, Radio Okapi reported Thursday.

Iran plans to launch 14 new home-made satellites into orbit

Published on: August 22, 2024
13:26

Tehran, Aug 22 (Prensa Latina) Iranian Space Agency Director Hasan Salarieh announced on Thursday that the Agency plans to launch 14 new satellites into orbit, while 30 others are being manufactured.

Ethiopia adopts sanitary measures to prevent Mpox

Published on: August 22, 2024
13:14

Addis Ababa, Aug 22 (Prensa Latina) Ethiopia is adopting measures to prevent the entry of the monkeypox (Mpox) virus and remain without positive cases of the disease, Health Minister Mekdes Daba informed.

South African national health laboratory recovered after cyber-attac

Published on: August 22, 2024
12:12

Pretoria, Aug 22 (Prensa Latina) The operations of South Africa's National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS) are now fully restored after a cyber-attack last June.

Cuba reports no smallpox cases

Published on: August 22, 2024
11:59

Havana, Aug 22 (Prensa Latina) The national director of Epidemiology of the Cuban Public Health Ministry, Dr. Francisco Duran, informed today that the country is not currently registering cases of smallpox (MPOX), but is maintaining surveillance.

WHO warns of dengue fever rise in Latin America

Published on: August 22, 2024
10:01

Geneva, Aug 22 (Prensa Latina) The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned of a substantial increase in dengue fever cases in Latin America and the spread of diseases transmitted by mosquito bites.

Over 50,000 Cuban women are engaged in science and technology

Published on: August 22, 2024
09:33

Havana, Aug 22 (Prensa Latina) More than 50,000 Cuban women were engaged in science and technology activities in 2023, the National Statistics and Information Bureau (ONEI) informed on Thursday.

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