Day: November 25, 2022

Uganda closed schools nationwide on Friday to curb the spread of Ebola, despite the health minister insisting to AFP that new cases had declined. The directive to close schools two weeks before the end of term was announced earlier this month following the deaths of eight children from the highly contagious disease. But in recent weeks, the number of new infections registered in the capital, Kampala, and the epicenters of Mubende and Kassanda has declined, Health Minister Jane Ruth Aceng told AFP. “The major breakthrough in this fight against Ebola for Uganda is that the communities have realized that Ebola

  Delegates at a global summit on trade in endangered species on Friday approved a plan to protect 54 more shark species, a move that could drastically reduce the lucrative and cruel shark fin trade. Members of the requiem shark and the hammerhead shark families will now have their trade tightly controlled under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). The binding resolutions were adopted by consensus on the final day of the two-week meeting by delegates from 183 countries and the European Union. “Proposal 37 approved,” Shirley Binder, Panamanian delegate and head of the plenary, said of