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Cyprus To Finance Medical Bill If Tourists Gets Coronavirus
Cyprus aspires to get attention of tourists after its coronavirus lockdown by Financing the medical costs of anyone who tests positive for COVID-19 while holidaying on the island, officials said on Wednesday.
The plan was listed in a letter to tour operators and airlines detailing the procedures Cyprus is taking to make known the safety of its tourism sector.
The letter was endorsed Wednesday and signed by the ministers of foreign affairs, transport, and tourism.
‘The Mediterranean island is marketing itself as a safe holiday destination during the global pandemic.’
The Republic of Cyprus has confirmed 939 novel coronavirus cases and only 17 deaths at standstill.
The government said it is “committed to taking care of all travellers who test positive during their stay, as well as their families and close contacts”.
*It pledged to cover accommodation, dining and medical care if a tourist falls ill with the virus.*
The “traveller will only need to bear the cost of their airport transfer and repatriation flight,” it said.
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More Than 300 Chinese Nationals Evicted From Nigeria
China has taken home 325 of its citizens from Nigeria via an Air Peace flight that was known to depart at 10:05 pm on Thursday.
The plane move towards Shanghai.
France, the UK, and the US are also part of the countries that have also taken home their nationals from Nigeria since the starting of the COVID-19 outbreak.
As of Thursday evening, Nigeria had confirmed 8,915 cases of the novel coronavirus with 259 deaths.
Nonetheless, the virus was first confirmed in China in December 2019 and the country has ever since reported not less than 82,000 cases with more than 4,000 deaths.
Source___Channels TV
Murdered Libyan contrabandist’s family kills 30 migrants for Revenge
The family of a Libyan contrabandist killed by migrants has killed 30 migrants in a revenge attack, Libya’s United Nations-recognised government said.
‘The killings took place in Mezdah, a town some 150km (95 miles) south of Libya’s capital Tripoli, the interior ministry said on Thursday, adding that the 30-year-old smuggler was killed by “clandestine migrants” for unknown reasons.’
Eleven other migrants, whose nationalities were not identified, were wounded and admitted to hospital in Zentan, 170km (106 miles) southwest of Tripoli, it said.
The ministry assured to hunt down the killers.
Libya has been surrounded in chaos since 2011 when longtime leader Muammar Gaddafi was assassinated in a NATO-backed uprising. Following 2014, the country has been divided between two rival administrations.
In current years, the country has also become a major pathway for migrants and refugees hoping to make it to Europe.
*Many of the migrants have fled poverty, conflict, war, forced labour, female genital mutilation, corrupt governments and personal threats, only to find themselves stranded in the middle of the Libyan conflict and also facing the threat of a potential coronavirus outbreak in the country*
Source___Aljazeera
Afghan forces killed as gov’t hankers Taliban to lengthen armistice
No less than14 members of the Afghan army have been killed in a Taliban strike as the Afghan government said the Eid armistice was not over yet.
The Ministry of Defence discloses on Friday part of the Afghan army were killed in the area of Paktiya. Three others were also wounded in the bombardment that was also reported by the Taliban.
Earlier before the incident, the Taliban have killed at least 14 people from the security forces in northern Parwan and western Farah provinces.
Afghanistan’s National Security Adviser (NSA) spokesperson Javid Faisal nonetheless wrote in a tweet on Friday that the “detente” which began at the time of Eid holiday, marking the end of Ramadan, was not stopping.
“The ceasefire is not over yet; there have been violations because it is a complicated technical process that requires good coordination between both sides,” Faisal said.
Earlier, Faisal had urged the Taliban to pushed the three-day armistice, which came into start on Sunday to mark the Muslim festival of Eid al-Fitr.
“It is important to extend the ceasefire and, to avoid bloodshed, the Afghan government is ready to extend it,” the NSA spokesman told a news conference on Tuesday.
Source___Aljazeera
Online child abuse leap up during lockdown alert police
Police forces around the world are been alerted of transgressors and paedophiles using the coronavirus lockdown to attack children.
Data put forward by the BBC shows request for abuse imagery has risen up.
Reports of non-attendance online material more than doubled worldwide to not less than four million between March and April.
‘The US-based Center for Missing and Exploited Children said some of that rise related to one especially horrific and widely-circulated video.’
*In the UK, where 300,000 people are considered a threat to children, there were nearly nine million attempts in the last month to access child sexual abuse websites which had been previously blocked by the Internet Watch Foundation.*
The anti-child abuse fund which reports sites to internet service providers, make known that since the pandemic started there has been an 89% drop in site omission by the tech companies.
‘It believes this may be because many of these firms have fewer people staffing their hotlines during the pandemic.’
Denmark also made known the number of attempts to access child abuse websites has increase by three.
With most schools closed, children are having more time online. Experts say that puts them at an extreme risk of getting pull into sexual abuse.
Cathal Delaney of Europol told the BBC: “Children are more vulnerable, they’re isolated, they’re not being as well supervised online and they’re spending more time online during this period than they would have previously.
“Those conditions lend themselves to children being approached in different ways or coerced or exploited.”
Source___BBC News
UK could provide ‘path to citizenship’ for Hong Kong’s British passport possessors
The UK could provide British National (Overseas) passport possessors in Hong Kong a way to UK citizenship if China does not amend plans for a security law in the territory, UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab says.
There are 300,000 BNO passport possessors in Hong Kong.
They have the valid to visit the UK for up to six months in the absence of a visa.
Mr Raab’s statement came after the UK, US, Australia and Canada make known joint criticism of Beijing’s plan.
The suggested law has been supported by China’s parliament – which validates decisions made by the ruling Communist Party – and could be put into order as early as the end of June. It would make it a unlawful to sabotage Beijing’s authority in Hong Kong.
The four nations said forcing the security law would reduce the “one country, two systems” framework consented before Hong Kong was passed over from British to Chinese rule in 1997.
*It guaranteed Hong Kong some autonomy and afforded rights and freedoms that do not exist in mainland China.*
China has declined foreign condemnation of the plan.
Li Zhanshu, chairman of the parliamentary committee that will now draft the law, said it was “in line with the fundamental interests of all Chinese people, including Hong Kong compatriots”.
On Thursday Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s official spokesman told a Westminster briefing: “We are deeply concerned about China’s legislation related to national security in Hong Kong.
“We have been very clear that the security legislation risks undermining the principle of one country, two systems.
“We are in close contact with our international partners on this and the Foreign Secretary spoke to US Secretary [Mike] Pompeo last night.”
He added: “The steps taken by the Chinese government place the Joint Declaration under direct threat and do undermine Hong Kong’s high degree of autonomy.”
Source___BBC News
Protesters set Minneapolis police station on fire, as they protest for the killing of George Floyd
A police station in Minneapolis has been set on fire during a third night of protests over the death of an unarmed black man in custody on Thursday.
The protest continued in spite of the governor of Minnesota instructing the dispositin of hundreds of members of the National Guard to put back order.
President Donald Trump said “thugs” were ” disgracing the memory” of George Floyd, 46, who died on Monday.
Mr Floyd’s family have call on to the four police officers involved in his death face murder charges. But district attorney have said they are still finding more evidence.
The incident has joined to long-established annoyance over the police killings of black Americans, including the current case of Breonna Taylor in Kentucky.
‘Protesters have also taken to the streets in Chicago, Los Angeles and Memphis.’
Source___BBC
BREAKING: Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari Set out Another $5.513bn Loan To Finance adapt 2020 Budget
President of Nigeria Muhammadu Buhari is aspiring Another $5.513bn loan to finance the redraft 2020 budget.
Details coming shortly…
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‘Gambia’s Refine strategies Hijacked By Jammeh Enablers’
According to Sheriff Kijera, chairman of the Gambia Centre for Victims of Human Rights Violations, even after three years since the end of the Jammeh dictatorial regime, The Gambia’s refine strategies continue to be “hijacked” by the former president’s assistants who continue holding key public institutions.
“I think the government should do more to address such issues. Institutional reforms haven’t been quite meteoric as it is supposed to be because our country is being hijacked by these people who have a lot of influence in the government,” Mr Kijera told The Standard.
Mr Kijera went on to condemn the frequently reprocessing of many who worked directly under Jammeh, either in his cabinet and in other public institutions as leaders, saying this action by the president is an insult to the 2016 revolution, which is causing “distress” to victims of Jammeh.
“It is about time that these issues are addressed. It is embarrassing to be recycling Jammeh enablers. But I think the fact remains that the government is not steering the affairs of this country as it is supposed to be,” he lamented.
Mr Kijera further marked out that corruption is also an issue that needs to be checked into and addressed by the government. “I don’t know what is the obsession,” why Adama Barrow is so obsessed with such enablers,” he said.
Source___Standard Newspaper
Diplomatic passport misconduct reaches court
The Attorney General’s Chambers yesterday put in order eight count charges against Mansa Sumareh, former chief driver of President Adama Barrow, Ebrima J.S. Sanneh, Saikou Sanneh, protocol officers and one Ousman Touray.
The charges set out from faking of official documents, emitting false documents, making false documents without authority, obtaining execution of documents by false pretense to three uniquely counts of deception to commit felony.
When the matter was mentioned yesterday before Justice Ebrima Ba Jaiteh at the High Court in Banjul, senior state counsels Patrick Gomez and M.B Sowe of the Attorney General’s Chambers make known their appearance for the state but the the charged persons were absent and their absence anticipated the state counsel to seek for the shifting in order to interface with the serious crime unit of the Gambia Police Force Headquarters to alert the charged persons or guarantors for the starting of their trial.
The presiding Judge, Ba Jaiteh permitted the application and urged the state prosecutors to work together with the serious crime unit to bring the accused persons in the next stated date on 2 June, 2020.
Source____Standard Newspaper
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