Last month a 91-year-old grandmother from the United Kingdom became the first person in the world to be injected with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, hailing a massive scientific break through and a global sigh of relief. As countries around the world draw up plans to rollout their vaccination programs, the
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s West Bank annexation deadline of July 1st came and went, having not received the green light from the U.S. administration. In January, President Trump announced a ‘deal of the century’, a Middle East peace plan that Palestinians deem to be constructed on Netanyahu’s desk. The
According to the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World, 690 million people were hungry in 2019 and COVID-19 may add a further 83 – 132 million people to this number by the end of the year. The annual report published by multiple United Nations agencies last week
For the first time in human history, an entire generation of children has had their education disrupted. By April 2020 to halt the spread of COVID-19, 1.6 billion learners globally, 90% of the entire student population, were out of school. A new report published by Save The Children has warned
Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro tested positive for COVID-19 this week, after months of undermining the severity of the global pandemic. Speaking to a small group of reporters, a mask-wearing Bolsonaro confirmed he contracted the coronavirus. He stated, “There’s no reason for fear… Life goes on. I thank God for my
Months after the Coronavirus began to shut down the globe, countries are slowly adjusting to a new way of life. Ever since the virus landed in the U.K., it has been the “low paid healthcare workers, rubbish collectors, and supermarket stackers, not hedge fund managers or venture capitalists” who have
This weekend, millions of Muslims around the world have welcomed the beginning of Ramadan. But this year, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, most countries have shut their places of worship during the holy month, encouraging believers to practice their religion at home instead. The Khana Ka’ba in Mecca, Saudi Arabia,
After a seven-month communications blackout was lifted, the citizens of the Indian administered region of Jammu and Kashmir see their daily life suspended yet again due to the global coronavirus outbreak. No strangers to a lockdown, the residents are now faced with managing the COVID-19 pandemic in a unique circumstance.
Nearly four weeks after sub-Saharan Africa’s first COVID-19 case, the coronavirus has managed to halt yet another commercial hub. This time it is Nigeria, which has had to take unprecedented measures in order to combat this global pandemic. The lock-down in the continent’s most populous country began on Monday night
