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The Education minister of Ethiopia, Mr. Berhanu Nega has asked to close all the secondary schools for a week. This announcement was made to allow students help in harvesting crop fields left behind by civilians who enlisted in the military. Government officials shared that the fighting has destroyed hundreds of schools and more  than 1.2 million students were out of school due to the ongoing conflict in the north. A six-month state of emergency was announced in November to contain a Tigrayan rebel advancement towards the capital, Addis Ababa. Due to the current situation arising in the north and centre of the country caused by rebel  forces, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has made a call to join the armed forces to defeat the  uprising rebel. Thousands of people have answered his call to join the army. He called on “all patriotic Ethiopians” to join him in frontline combat against forces loyal to  the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF). Recently P...

  The new variant of Corona virus is now being called Omicron and it is being suspected that it is resistant to the current lot of vaccines doing rounds worldwide. However pharmaceutical companies are now determined to improvise the current vaccine to create a shield of protection against the new fast mutating variant. Named by the World Health Organisation (WHO), the health organization says that classified it as a highly transmissible virus of concern, the same category that includes the predominant delta variant, which is still a scourge driving higher cases of sickness and death in Europe and parts of the United States. The new variant started its spread from South Africa, due to which UK has already banned travel from four of its countries. The actual risks are still to be ascertained about the new highly infectious fast mutating variant. But early evidence suggests it carries an increased risk of reinfection compared with other highly transmissible variants. That mean...

While some nations are facing huge economic down-slides, India has other battles to fight along with containing the Covid-19 disease outbreak  The recent Amphan cyclone that has rocked both Bangladesh and India, but has wrecked more havoc in Bangladesh. As if the terror of keeping one's social distance and being home bound was not enough, that the state of West Bengal (India) was rocked by savage rain and winds yesterday. It was a harrowing experience for the common man, who was left without a roof on top of his head, and the state government was thrown in deep waters to find safe haven for the evacuates, while ensuring they could maintain social distancing protocols. If one was to look at the pictures of makeshift sheds, it was sad to see how scared the common public was looking.       The storm is the first super cyclone to form in the Bay of Bengal since 1999. Though its winds have now weakened, it is still classified as a very severe cyclone. Ther...

Corona Virus led lock down in hampering production of condoms and could lead to long term shortage in the markets worldwide As social distancing becomes a norm, couples lock indoors have more time to themselves. However, the new challenge at hand is an approaching condom shortage.  This might have been the woe of the youth of Britain for decades together who depended on college orientations and free NHS drives to replenish their supplies. But an imminent shortage is going to become a fact worldwide. One of the world’s biggest producers is Malaysia and has now reported that the corona virus lock-down is only going to push the shut down in production for another few weeks. It could also be pushed in April- May. Malaysia's Karex Bhd makes one in every five condoms globally. These are marketed under well known brands and sold worldwide.   While the company has been given permission to resume production, it will be 50 percent less than its normal production...

In fear of getting wiped out as a ethnic community, indigenous groups in South America are shunning away any contact with foreign visitors Tribes fear extinction at the hands of the Corona Virus The pandemic is a silent war we are waging- there is no escape and this has been understood even by the indigenous groups residing in South America. Indigenous tribes are now locking down and closing off their reserves to visitors for the fear of contracting the corona virus. The fear of the pandemic is fast spreading across South America and they might be right in believing that it would wipe them out.  As social distancing becomes a norm, for those living as tribes, this is extremely difficult to implement. Indigenous groups have been trying to fight for their survival. Their existence is threatened by oil exploration, deforestation and illegal logging. The tribe groups are spread from Columbia to Brazil. There are reasons to believe that the tribes might not have devel...