HARARE, Zimbabwe – Quickfresh co-founder Rumbidzai Mbambo makes daily runs supplying fresh produce to her growing list of clientele. Today is no different. Before winding up the last of her scheduled deliveries and returning to the warehouse in Waterfalls, the 27-year-old Mbambo sets course for Glen View, a high-density suburb in Harare, the capital of …
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The sprawling metropolis Mumbai, home to a burgeoning population of 13 million, has become the epicenter of coronavirus cases in the country as the municipality ramps up testing, particularly in the city’s impoverished areas. The city’s coronavirus death toll was 1,758, with 50,000 cases reported in the metropolitan region and the neighboring satellite towns as …
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They know the risks of attending an “unauthorized assembly” in Hong Kong. Thousands come anyway. They sidestep the Great Firewall of China to organize via online messaging. You can’t use Telegram in mainland China, but the messaging app allows Hong Kong users to mask their phone numbers so police can’t find them. A crowd of …
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Mara basks in the sun, both happy and exhausted, the memories of a COVID-19 quarantine and a thousand-mile journey fresh in her mind. She never forgets. There are signs that the 3.6-ton elephant, thought to be 55, remembers her decades as a circus performer and years as a zoo curiosity. Now, after a border crossing …
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More than a million Brazilians have been diagnosed with COVID-19, many of them indigenous people in the Amazon rainforest. And to help them, a group of musicians and celebrities from around the world will come together for an online music festival. SOS Rainforest Live, organized by Rainforest Foundation Norway and Rainforest Foundation USA, was broadcast …
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MUNICH – Drinking alone may not be good for you, but in times of corona the virus, not the beer drinking with thousands of revelers in a packed tent at a beer festival wouldn’t be a great idea either. That’s why Munich’s legendary beer bacchanalia, the Oktoberfest, has been canceled. The annual event, which typically …
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Young farmers in Africa are continually striving to achieve food security, but many people in poor communities could starve if investment in agricultural projects is not sustained. Noticeable increases in farming activity on the continent, particularly among youth, suggest Africa has the capacity to feed itself and contribute to its economic prosperity if the right …
Social isolation in Brazil, a highly social culture, is changing how citizens buy and sell products. “Thirty percent of online shopping in March came from people who had never used e-commerce,” said Mauricio Salvador, president of the Brazilian Electronic Commerce Association. Information technologist Romulo Ramos was accustomed to using e-commerce, but many Brazilians were not. …
Meses antes de que el presidente Donald Trump firmara su orden ejecutiva del 28 de mayo dirigida a las plataformas de redes sociales, la Casa Blanca y los miembros de la familia Trump debatían cómo luchar contra los gigantes tecnológicos. En una entrevista con Zenger News el 28 de febrero, el hijo mayor del presidente, …
Ecuador, one of the hardest-hit countries in the region, is starting to reopen after a 40-day country-wide lockdown and transition to social distancing. There are more than 38,000 cases and 5,000 confirmed COVID-19 deaths, according to the latest official figures. Ecuadorian Minister of the Interior María Paula Romo speaks to press in the Province of …