UAE Tour cycling race abandoned midway after Italian participants test positive for coronavirus The 2020 UAE Tour cycling race was abandoned midway on Friday after two Italian participants tested positive for the coronavirus. The Abu Dhabi Sports Council issued a statement announcing that the remaining rounds of the race were cancelled. “The decision has been

Photo/ Somali Times According to Voice of America Somali students in Wuhan says they are trapped in their university rooms feeling frightened and lonely because the Coronavirus and are appealing for the Somali government to help them leave the besieged, sickening Wuhan. Somali Times also contact the Via WhatsApp. Somali Foreign Minister Ahmed Isse Awad

Travellers wear masks as they arrive at the Dubai International Airport, after the UAE’s Ministry of Health and Community Prevention confirmed the country’s first case of coronavirus, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates January 29, 2020. REUTERS/Christopher Pike The United Arab Emirates said on Friday it had registered two new coronavirus cases, bringing the total number

Photo Credit The Guardian A natural gas well at one of the Hilal gas fields in Ethiopia’s Somali region. As villagers in Somali region fall ill in unexplained circumstances, some locals fear gas exploration has tainted the local water supply At first, 23-year-old Khadar Abdi Abdullahi’s eyes began turning yellow. Then the palms of his

Photo Credit/ Daily Nation/ Ms Lillian Morara whose husband is a PhD student in Wuhan City speaks to journalists in Nairobi on February 19, 2020. When Lillian Morara’s daughter asked if her father would come back from Wuhan alive, she was caught off guard and could not answer the question. During a press conference on

Photo Credit/ Daily Nation/ Ms Inviolata MMbavi, speaks at a Nairobi hotel during the 17th edition of the Kenya Science Media café on February 7, 2020. When it was announced that the trials of HVTN 702, an experimental vaccine that could protect people against HIV, the virus that causes Aids, had been cancelled for non-efficacy,

Shah was jailed for a minimum of 15 years on Friday (PA) A GP who molested 24 women at his surgery has been handed three life sentences for 90 sex offences against female patients. Manish Shah, 50, who will serve at least 15 years behind bars, was branded a “master of deception” for persuading patients

Photo/ Associated Press Saudi Arabia will stop expatriates from returning to the kingdom if they travel to China in an effort to contain the outbreak of coronavirus. The kingdom banned citizens and expatriates from traveling to China, state-run Saudi Press Agency reported. Saudi citizens violating the restrictions would be penalized, while expatriates wouldn’t be allowed

Photo/ Somali Times Mogadishu, The Somali government has announced a panel of government agencies that will work to prevent the outbreak of the Coronavirus epidemic in China. The committee consisting of the Ministry of Health, Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation Agency and Citizenship and Immigration has the focus of the people coming down from

Photo/ Somali Times / Dr Fowsia Abikar Nur Somalia’s Minister of Health, Dr Fowsia Abikar Nur, has once again sent letters to officials of the Yardimeli Hospital in Mogadishu, demanding them to prove and come up with a law that allows them to work in Somalia but did not respond. “The Ministry of Health is