Headlines- Sheik Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani, the prime minister of Qatar, will visit Tehran on Thursday and meet with several Iranian officials to discuss ways to de-escalate tensions.
- According to a notice on a Treasury Department website, the US has imposed sanctions on the Palestine Action group and designated it as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist.
- A huge flash flood in Nepal ravaged villages, killing at least 160 people and leaving hundreds more missing for.
- At least one person was killed and over a dozen people were injured on Wednesday when a person crashed a car into a crowd in the northwest French city of Caen.
- Wildfires that sweft through several Algerian provinces claimed the lives of twelve people..
Tag: Trachoma
June 12, 2021
Trachoma Blindness in Kenya
Kenyan authorities are working to eradicate trachoma, an infectious disease that is one of Africa’s major causes of blindness. According to Brenda Mulinya’s report from Nairobi, almost seven million people in central Kenya are at risk of contracting the disease